Table 1:

F-15 F-15

F-16

F-15

F-16

F-15

F-16

      F-15

F-16

    F-15

F-16  

  F-15

F-16

F-16


 
F-15

F-16

Canadian Military Companies linked to the
Canadian Association of Defence and Security Industries that are:

(a) Exporting to the US for Weapons Systems used by Israel,
(b) Exporting Directly to Israel, or
(c) Actively Pursuing Direct Exports to Israel

Canadian
Military
Companies

Location(s)

 

 

Summary of
Main Military
Products
and/or
Services


Exports to
the U.S. for
Major Weapons Systems
used by Israel

F-15
F-16

AH-64

 

 

Direct Exports
to Israel

or

Actively
Pursuing

Direct Exports
to Israel

 

Canadian Association
of Defence
and Security Industries
(CADSI)
(Organizer of CANSEC, Canada's largest military trade show)

General Company Facts

Current
or former
CADSI
members


(With notes
on recent activism within
CADSI)
Exhibitor
CANSEC 2008

(With notes on CANSEC 2007 & 2008
sponsors)
=> Year Established
=> Primary Industry
=> Alternate Industries

=> Total Sales
=> Export Sales
=> Number of Employees

(Figures in Canadian $)

3M Security Systems Division
(a division of 3M Canada)
Ottawa ON
Manufactures biometric equipment and software for military and police use in authenticating individuals, including fingerprint, hand and facial recognition technologies.
 
Actively Pursuing direct exports
to Israel
Current
CADSI member

(parent company)
CANSEC
exhibitor
2008

(parent company)
Year Established: 1973
Primary Industry:
Computer Systems Design & Related Services

Total Sales: $10 - $25 million
Export Sales: $10 - $25 million
Number of Employees: 65
ABB Instrumentation & Analytical
(formerly Bomem Inc)
Burnaby BC
Dorval QC
Manufactures analytical instruments for high-tech military research and supplies/refurbishes turbochargers used in power plants aboard Navy warships. F-15
 
Current
CADSI member

 
Year Established: 1930
Primary Industry:
All Other Misc. Fabricated Metal Products
Alternate Industries:
* Power Boiler & Heat Exchangers
* Other Engine & Power Transmission Equip't
* Semiconductor & Other Electronic Parts
* Measuring, Medical & Controlling Devices
* Power, Distribution & Specialty Transformers
* Motor & Generator
* Switchgear & Switchboard, Relay & Industrial Control Apparatus

Number of Employees: 1800
ACE Security Laminates Inc
Ottawa ON
Manufactures security laminates that make glass resistant to small arms fire, bomb blasts and "civil unrest."
 
Direct exports
to Israel
Former CADSI member
 
 
Acron Capability Engineering Inc.
Ottawa ON
Gatineau QC
Fredericton NB
Develops high-tech modeling and simulation programs to create synthetic, artificial environments that use flight simulation and use computer games like Virtual BattleSpace and Steel Beast to conduct realistic military training. F-16
 
Current
CADSI member
CANSEC
exhibitor
2008
Primary Industry: Engineering Services
Alternate Industries:
Other Scientific & Tech. Consulting Services
AirBoss-Defense
Acton Vale QC
Manufactures rubber engineered products for tank track repair and overhaul; calendered, extruded and moulded engineered rubber products and personal protective equipment including footwear, handwear and gas masks.
 
Actively Pursuing direct exports
to Israel
Current
CADSI member
CANSEC
exhibitor
2008
Year Established: 1928
Primary Industry: Footwear
Alternate Industries:
* Other Rubber Products
* Medical Equip't & Supplies

Total Sales: $50 million +
Export Sales: $10 - $25 million
Number of Employees: 500
Aktelux Corp.
Mississauga ON
Manufactures flat panel displays and avionics for military use including tactical and navigational instruments, radar warning devices, flight management systems, global positioning systems displays and communications systems.
 
Actively Pursuing direct exports
to Israel
Former CADSI member
 
Year Established: 1984
Primary Industry:
* Navigational & Guidance Instruments
Alternate Industries:
* Computer & Peripheral Equip't
* Aerospace Products & Parts

Total Sales: $1 - $5 million
Export Sales: $1 - $5 million
Number of Employees: 45
Allen-Vanguard Corp
Ottawa ON
Stoney Creek ON
Provides electronic blast sensors, Force Protection and counter-terrorist equipment as well as training for defeating and mitigating conventional and unconventional terrorist devices.
 
Direct exports
to Israel
*
Current
CADSI member

Note: Top company exec. is active on CADSI's "Government Relations Committee")
CANSEC
exhibitor
2008
Year Established: 2005
Primary Industry:
All Other General-Purpose Machinery
Alternate Industries:
* Measuring, Medical & Controlling Devices
* All Other Clothing Stores
* Professional & Management Development Training

Total Sales: $50 million +
Export Sales: $25 - $50 million
Number of Employees: 200
Alphacasting Inc
St-Laurent QC
Manufactures precision castings for military aircraft, night vision systems, radars, rifles, tanks, missiles, scopes and unmanned aerial vehicles through classified contracts for many NATO forces.
 
Direct exports
to Israel
*
Current
CADSI member
CANSEC
exhibitor
2008
Year Established: 1991
Primary Industry: Steel Foundries

Total Sales: $5 - $10 million
Export Sales: $1 - $5 million
Number of Employees: 85
Alt Software Inc.
Toronto ON
Waterloo ON
Produces software, development services and design solutions for embedded computer devices such as electronic display panels aboard warplanes. AH-64 Direct exports
to Israel
*
Former CADSI member
 
Year Established: 1994
Primary Industry:
Computer Systems Design & Related

Total Sales: $5 - $10 million
Export Sales: $5 - $10 million
Number of Employees: 85
Amphenol Canada Corp.
Scarborough ON
Manufactures filter connector systems to prime military contractors to mitigate electromagnetic interference and electromagnetic pulse in military aircraft, warships, missiles, communications and gun control electronic systems.
 
Direct exports
to Israel
*
Former CADSI member
 
Year Established: 1962
Primary Industry:
Semiconductor & Other Electronic Parts

Total Sales: $25 - $50 million
Export Sales: $10 - $25 million
Number of Employees: 175
Analytic Systems
Surrey BC
Designs and develops inverters, converters, battery chargers, and power conversion products for armed forces and military prime contractors producing major delivery weapons systems.
 
Direct exports
to Israel
*
Current
CADSI member


Note: Top company exec. was active on CADSI's "editorial committee" for "Homeland Security" report

 
Year Established: 1976
Primary Industry:
All Other Electrical Equip't & Parts

Total Sales: $5 - $10 million
Export Sales: $1 - $5 million
Number of Employees: 50
Array Systems Computing Inc.
Toronto ON
Provides software for military airborne and satellite synthetic aperture radar systems, conventional radar and acoustic signal processing, threat detection, 3-D modelling, mission simulators and team trainers.
 
Actively Pursuing direct exports
to Israel
Current
CADSI member


Note: Top company exec. was active on CADSI's "editorial committee" for "Homeland Security" report

 
Year Established: 1981
Primary Industry:
Computer Systems Design & Related
Alternate Industries:
Navigational & Guidance Instruments

Total Sales: $10 - $25 million
Number of Employees: 50
Atlantis Systems International Inc.
Brampton ON
Produces simulation and training systems for international miltary forces including computer-based desktop systems, cockpit procedures training devices for aircrew and simulation-based maintenance trainers. F-15
 
Current
CADSI member


Note: Top company exec. was active on CADSI's "Government Relations Committee")
CANSEC
exhibitor
2008

Note: Company was a CANSEC sponsor in 2007

Year Established: 1978
Primary Industry:
Commercial & Service Industry Machinery
Alternate Industries:
* Measuring, Medical & Controlling Devices
* Computer Systems Design & Related
* All Other Schools & Instruction
* Educational Support Services

Total Sales: $25 - $50 million
Export Sales: $10 - $25 million
Number of Employees: 180
BAE Systems Canada Inc
Halifax NS
Victoria BC
Ottawa ON
Manufactures products for air, land, and naval projects including support of Victoria Class military submarines and involved in flight training program in Canada for pilots from various NATO air forces. AH-64
 
Current
CADSI member
CANSEC
exhibitor
2008

Note: Company was a CANSEC sponsor in 2007

Primary Industry: Engineering Services
Alternate Industries:
* Aerospace Products & Parts
* Ship Building & Repairing
* Industrial Design Services
* Computer Systems Design & Related
* R&D in Physical, Engineering & Life Sciences
* All Other Professional, Scientific & Tech. Services
Bell Helicopter Textron Canada Limited (HTCL)
Mirabel QC
Has manufactured helicopters to armed forces aroud the world, including Bell 407s to the US, 212s to Columbia and 412s to Pakistan, Indonesia, Iran, Mexico, Peru, Saudi Arabia, Sri Lanka, Thailand, the UK, etc.
 
Direct exports
to Israel
*
Former CADSI member
 
Year Established: 1984
Primary Industry:
Aerospace Products & Parts

Total Sales: $50 million +
Export Sales: $50 million +
Number of Employees: 2100
Brent Packaging & Logistics Ltd.
Mississauga ON
Canada's largest crating company specialises in packaging large military equipment for export. Has packaged such military vehicles as Heavy Logistic Wheeled Vehicles, Light Support Wheeled Vehicles and Light Utility Wheeled Vehicles.
 
Actively Pursuing direct exports
to Israel

 
Current
CADSI member

 
Year Established: 1948
Primary Industry:
Wood Container & Pallet

Total Sales: $5 - $10 million
Export Sales: $1 - $5 million
Number of Employees: 60
Bristol Aerospace Limited
(a division of Magellan Aerospace)
Winnipeg MB

 

Provides military aeroengine and aerostructure components; target rockets for testing of ballistic missile defence (BMD) weapons; air-to-ground missiles, including cluster munitions; and repair and overhaul services for warplanes and helicopters. (For more on Bristol's role in BMD, see COAT's Press for Conversion! issue 56) AH-64
 

 
Current
CADSI member

(parent company)

Note: Bristol Aerospace has itself been a CADSI member in the Former CADSI member
CANSEC
exhibitor
2008

(parent company)
Year Established: 1930
Primary Industry:
Aerospace Products & Parts

Total Sales: $50 million +
Export Sales: $50 million +
Number of Employees: 1000
CAE Inc
Montreal QC
Toronto ON

(plus operations in the USA and 12 other countries)
Provides full-flight simulators for many warplanes, modelling technologies for most US weapons design and training devices for pilots, weapons specialists and technicians in military forces around the world.

(For information on CAE's role in ballistic missile defence, see COAT's Press for Conversion! issue 56, pp.32-37, and pp.38-39)

AH-64
 

 
Current CADSI member

Note: A top company exec. is active on CADSI's 2008 Board of Directors and 2006 Board of Directors
CANSEC
exhibitor
2008

Note: Company was a CANSEC sponsor in 2007

Primary Industry:
Commercial & Service Industry Machinery
Alternate Industries:
* Navigational & Guidance Instruments
* Computer Systems Design & Related
* All Other Schools & Instruction
Canadian Airmotive Ltd.
Ottawa ON
Manufactures and distributes airborne radio navigation equipment as well as heaters, lanyards, cargo restraint straps and safety nets for use aboard military aircraft.
 
Actively Pursuing direct exports
to Israel

 
Former CADSI member CANSEC
exhibitor
2008
Year Established: 1973
Primary Industry:
Aerospace Products & Parts
Alternate Industries:
* Prefabricated Wood Building
* Prefabricated Metal Building & Parts

Total Sales: $1 - $5 million
Number of Employees: 8
Canadian Commercial Corporation
Ottawa ON

 

Canada’s global contracting agency is a crown corporation of Canada's government, specializing in military exports. The CCC gives Canadian exporters access to US military markets, and public procurement opportunities around the world. (For more on CCC, see COAT's Press for Conversion! #52, p.43) AH-64
 
Current CADSI member
 
CaseBank Technologies Inc
Mississauga ON
Manufactures a guided diagnostic software program using real world experience to steer maintenance staff as they troubleshoot the solving of equipment and process problems when repairing military aircraft.
 
Actively Pursuing direct exports
to Israel

 
Former CADSI member CANSEC
exhibitor
2008
Year Established: 1998
Primary Industry:
Computer Systems Design & Related
Alternate Industries:
* Other Management Consulting Services
* Other Business Support Services

Total Sales: $1 - $5 million
Export Sales: $1 - $5 million
Number of Employees: 40
Celestica Inc
Toronto ON
Tests, designs, manufactures and repairs electronics systems for operational control, monitoring and military communications including printed circuit and system assembly.
 
Direct exports to Israel Current CADSI member
 
Year Established: 1994
Primary Industry:
All Other Electrical Equip't & Parts
Alternate Industries:
* Semiconductor & Other Electronic Parts
* Engineering Services

Total Sales: $50 million +
Export Sales: $50 million +
Number of Employees: 44000
Ceramic Protection Corporation
Calgary AB
Manufactures ballistic body armour inserts for military, para-military and police use, as well as ceramic tile, composite manufacture for armoured fighting, land vehicles.
 
Actively Pursuing direct exports
to Israel

 
Former CADSI member
 
Year Established: 1989
Primary Industry: Other Building Material Dealers
Alternate Industries:
Pottery, Ceramics & Plumbing Fixture

Total Sales: $1 - $5 million
Export Sales: $1 - $5 million
Number of Employees: 40
Clermark Inc.
Ottawa ON
Provide marketing/sales support to military industries seeking to expand export markets. Product range covers army, navy, air force, special forces and US "homeland defence" products.
 
Direct exports to Israel Current CADSI member CANSEC
exhibitor
2008
Year Established: 1995
Primary Industry: Wholesaler-Distributor
Alternate Industries:
Other Scientific & Tech. Consulting Services
Primary Business Activity:
Trading House / Wholesaler / Agent & Distributor
CMC Electronics Inc.
Montreal QC
Ottawa ON
Designs, manufactures high-tech electronics products for military use, including global positioning systems, cockpit systems integration, display panels for warplanes and ground, fighting vehicles. (For more on CMC's role in BMD, see COAT's Press for Conversion! issue 56, pp.40-41, and pp.38-39) AH-64 Direct exports to Israel Current CADSI member CANSEC
exhibitor
2008
Year Established: 1903
Primary Industry:
Radio, TV Broadcasting & Wireless Comm. Equip't
Alternate Industries:
Electronic Parts, Navigational & Comm. Equip't

Total Sales: $200,000 - $499,999
Export Sales: $200,000 - $499,999
Number of Employees: 1300
COLLINEO Inc.
Boucherville QC
Manufactures highly-mobile robots for military applications in urban environments and all-terrain articulated vehicles for remote surveillance, demining and unexploded ordinance operations.
 
Actively Pursuing direct exports
to Israel

 
Former CADSI member
 
Year Established: 2002
Primary Industry:
All Other Industrial Machinery
Alternate Industries:
* Other Engine & Power Transmission Equip't
* Engineering Services

Number of Employees: 3
Composites Atlantic Limited
Lunenburg NS
Dartmouth NS
Mirabel QC

(plus operations in USA)
Manufactures advanced composite components for military use, such as rocket motor cases, nose cones and launch tubes, sonar, antenna masts, umnanned aerial vehicle structures and flying targets.
 
Actively Pursuing direct exports
to Israel

 
Current CADSI member
 
Year Established: 2000
Primary Industry:
All Other Misc. Fabricated Metal Products

Total Sales: $25 - $50 million
Export Sales: $10 - $25 million
Number of Employees: 300
Consoltex Inc.
St-Laurent QC
Manufactures technical textiles for combat and dress uniforms, military shelters and equipment. Military fabrics produced include solid shades and camouflage for concealment and deception.
 
Direct exports to Israel Current CADSI member
 
Year Established: 1925
Primary Industry:
Artificial & Synthetic Fibres & Filaments

Total Sales: $50 million +
Export Sales: $50 million +
Number of Employees: 800
C-Tech Ltd.
Summerstown ON
Manufactures military sonar and Navy training simulators, circuit boards, electronic sub- assemblies, cylindrical array systems (towed and hull-mounted) and anti-submarine warfare systems.
 
Actively Pursuing direct exports
to Israel

 
Current CADSI member
 
Year Established: 1969
Primary Industry:
Navigational & Guidance Instruments

Total Sales: $5 - $10 million
Export Sales: $1 - $5 million
Number of Employees: 75
Current Corporation
Port Moody BC
Manufactures thermal camera systems for marine- and land-based police and paramilitary uses, including night-vision systems. Also makes law enforcement equipment such as handheld and weapon-mounted night vision sights, search lights and body armour.   Direct exports to Israel Current CADSI member CANSEC exhibitor 2009
Primary Industry:
Commercial & Service Industry Machinery Manufacturing
Alternate Industries:
* Hardware Manufacturing
* Navigational and Guidance Instruments Manufacturing
DEW Engineering & Development Ltd
Ottawa ON
Miramichi NB
Refurbishes, upgrades and re-configures fleets of military trucks, light-armored fighting vehicles and tanks. Designs and manufactures military trailers, sub-systems, command post vehicles and shelters.
 
Actively Pursuing direct exports
to Israel

 
Current CADSI member

Note: A top company exec. was active on CADSI's 2006 Board of Directors
CANSEC
exhibitor
2008
Year Established: 1978
Primary Industry: Engineering Services

Total Sales: $50 million +
Export Sales: $50 million +
Number of Employees: 400
Dishon Limited
Toronto ON
Manufactures components and assemblies for military aircraft including transmission and drive engines, guidance and landing aids, and provides maintenance, repair and overhaul services.
 
Direct exports to Israel Former CADSI member
 
Year Established: 1981
Primary Industry: Machine Shops
Alternate Industries:
Power Boiler & Heat Exchanger

Total Sales: $5 - $10 million
Number of Employees: 50
DRS Technologies Canada
Ottawa ON
Carleton Place ON
Halifax NS

 

 

Manufactures military communications, electro-optics, surveillance and sensor signal processors; electronic warfare simulation and computer-based training systems; static power conversion for land-, sea- and air-based weapons platforms.
(For more on DRS's role in ballistic missile defence, see COAT's Press for Conversion! issue 57, p.11.)
AH-64 Direct exports to Israel Current CADSI member

Note: Top company execs. were active on CADSI "editorial committee" for "Homeland Security" report, its International Cttee and the 2008 Board of Directors (chair) and 2006 Board of Directors
CANSEC
exhibitor
2008

Note: Company was a CANSEC sponsor in 2007 and 2008

Year Established: 1997
Primary Industry: Other Comm. Equip't
Alternate Industries:
* Hardware
* Computer & Peripheral Equip't
* Aerospace Products & Parts
* R&D in Physical, Engineering & Life Sciences

Total Sales: $100,000 - $199,999
Export Sales: $1 - $99,999
Number of Employees: 360
DuPont Canada
Mississauga ON
Kingston ON
Manufactures bullet-resistant vests and helmets, structural materials for military buildings and the building blocks of electronics and electrical materials for military systems.
 
Direct exports to Israel Current CADSI member
 
Year Established: 1877
Primary Industry: Resin & Synthetic Rubber
Alternate Industries: Paint & Coating

Total Sales: $50 million +
Export Sales: $50 million +
Number of Employees: 3400
DY 4 Systems Inc.
(now Curtiss Wright Embedded Computing)
Ottawa ON
This leading supplier of military electronics, exports single-board computers, digital signal processors, graphics engines, display frame grabbers, sensor inputs and high-density memory boards. F-15

F-16


 
Current CADSI member
(parent company)

Note: In the past DY 4 itself was a CADSI member.


 
Year Established: 1978
Primary Industry:
Computer & Peripheral Equip't

Total Sales: $50 million +
Number of Employees: 220
Edgewater Computer Systems Inc.
(now Raytheon Canada)
Regina SK

 

Manufactures advanced computer technology for multi-channel wireless communications and wired data communications. Its embedded avionics systems are aboard numerous weapons systems F-15

F-16


 
Former CADSI member CANSEC
exhibitor
2008

(parent company)
Primary Industry: Engineering Services
Alternate Industries:
Computer Systems Design & Related
ELCAN Optical Technologies
(Raytheon Canada Ltd.)
Midland ON

 

Makes electro-optical and opto-mechanical systems, like military binoculars, weapon sights, laser range finders, night vision products, thermal imaging, image intensification and infrared devices for guiding and firing tank weapons. F-15

F-16


 
Current CADSI member
(parent company)

Note: In the past, ELCAN itself was a CADSI member.

CANSEC
exhibitor
2008

(parent company)

Note: It was a CANSEC sponsor in 2007

Year Established: 1952
Primary Industry:
Commercial & Service Industry Machinery

Total Sales: $50 million +
Number of Employees: 625
Elettra Technology Inc.
Hamilton ON
Custom designed and manufactured internal combustion motors, generators and components for use in military vehicles.
 
Actively Pursuing direct exports
to Israel

 
Former CADSI member
 
Year Established: 1995
Primary Industry: Motor & Generator

Total Sales: $5 - $10 million
Export Sales: $1 - $5 million
Number of Employees: 43
eNGENUITY Technologies
(formerly Virtual Prototypes, now part of Presagis, owned by CAE)
Montréal QC
Computer consulting, hardware and software development for industrial control and laboratory automation systems, especially in visualization and simulation solutions for the aerospace, military and other markets. AH-64 Direct exports to Israel Current CADSI member
(parent company)
CANSEC
exhibitor
2008
Year Established: 1993
Primary Industry:
Computer Systems Design & Related
Alternate Industries:
* Graphic Design Services
* Management Consulting Services
* Other Scientific & Tech. Consulting Services

Total Sales: $500,000 - $999,999
Number of Employees: 5
Frontline Robotics
Ottawa ON
Designs and manufactures mobile robots that work with militaries and defense contractors. Robots conduct surveillance, disrupt and interdict threats, and can be equipped with automatic weapons.
 
Direct exports to Israel Former CADSI member
 
Year Established: 2001
Primary Industry:
All Other Industrial Machinery
Alternate Industries:
* Navigational & Guidance Instruments
* Other Airport Operations
* Computer Systems Design & Related
* Other Scientific & Tech. Consulting Services
* Security Systems Services (except Locksmiths)

Total Sales: $1 - $5 million
Export Sales: $1 - $5 million
Number of Employees: 20
General Dynamics Canada
Ottawa ON
Calgary AB
Halifax NS
Canada's leading Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Intelligence, Surveillance & Reconnaissance company provides electronics for many land-, sea- and air-based weapons systems.

(Click here to learn more on General Dynamics and its Canadian subsidiary.)

AH-64
 

 
Current CADSI member

Note: Top company execs. are active on CADSI's 2008 Board of Directors (co-chair), its cttees. "Government Relations" and "Events" (co-chair) and its 2006 Board of Directors.
CANSEC
exhibitor
2008

Note: Company was a CANSEC sponsor in 2007 and 2008

Year Established: 1948
Primary Industry:
Navigational & Guidance Instruments

Total Sales: $50 million +
Export Sales: $50 million +
Number of Employees: 1200
General Kinetics Engineering Corp
Brampton ON
Designs and manufactures suspension systems and parts for military land vehicles including semi-active damping systems, hydropneumatic suspensions and shock absorbers.
 
Direct exports to Israel Current CADSI member CANSEC
exhibitor
2008
Year Established: 1981
Primary Industry:
Motor Vehicle Steering & Suspension Parts (except Springs)

Number of Employees: 55
General Starlight Co., Ltd.
Richmond Hill ON
Manufactures night-vision infrared and starlight optical-electronic devices, such as goggles, binoculars, monoculars, riflescopes, fusion (hybrid/enhanced) thermal imaging systems, and long-range night vision observation systems for police and military uses.   Direct exports to Israel current CADSI member CANSEC
exhibitor
2008
Primary Industry:
Commercial and Service Industry Machinery Manufacturing
Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP
Montréal QC
Ottawa ON
Kanata ON
Toronto ON
Hamilton ON
Waterloo ON
Calgary AB
Vancouver BC

(plus operations in Russia and UK)
Law firm hired Gen. Hillier after his 2008 retirement as Canada's Chief of Defence. Former-intelligence/ military officers publish Gowlings' "Intelligence Security Diary." Gowlings' "Israel Group" assists Israeli firms and publishs the "Cda-Israel Update."
 
Direct exports to Israel Current CADSI member
 
Primary Industry: Offices of Lawyers
Haley Industries Limited
(a division of Magellan Aerospace)
Renfrew ON
Manufactures high-tech magnesium and aluminum alloy castings for international military aerospace industries using computer-aided design and manufacturing techniques. F-15

F-16


 
Current CADSI member
(parent company)
CANSEC
exhibitor
2008

(parent company)
Year Established: 1952
Primary Industry:
Non-Ferrous Foundries (except Die-Casting)

Total Sales: $50 million +
Export Sales: $10 - $25 million
Number of Employees: 375
HEROUX DEVTEK Inc.
Longueuil QC
Designs, manufactures and repairs military aerospace products through nine businesses in four divisions: Landing Gear, Aerostructure, Gas Turbine Components and Logistics & Defence. F-15

F-16


 
Current CADSI member
 
Year Established: 1942
Primary Industry:
Aerospace Products & Parts

Total Sales: $50 million +
Export Sales: $50 million +
Number of Employees: 1200
Honeywell Canada (ASCA)
Amherstburg ON
Mississauga ON
Designs, manufactures, distributes electrical and integrated electronic components, autopilots, gyroscopes, instrumentation controls for avionics systems and aerospace electric power technologies. AH-64 Actively Pursuing direct exports
to Israel

 
Current CADSI member

Note: A top company exec. is active on CADSI's "Government Relations Committee"
CANSEC
exhibitor
2008

Note: Company was a CANSEC sponsor in 2008

Year Established: 1999
Primary Industry:
Aerospace Products & Parts
Alternate Industries:
* Engineering Services
* R&D in Physical, Engineering & Life Sciences

Total Sales: $50 million +
Export Sales: $50 million +
Number of Employees: 1100
Hypernetics Limited
Arnprior ON
Designs, manufactures, assembles and tests structures, equipment and electronic/electrical systems for warplanes such as wheel speed transducers, solenoids, annunciators and indicators. F-15

F-16


 
Former CADSI member
 
Year Established: 1972
Primary Industry:
Semiconductor & Other Electronic Parts

Total Sales: $1 - $5 million
Export Sales: $1 - $5 million
Number of Employees: 35
ICAN
St. John's NF
Designs and manufactures high-tech marine navigation and communications software, enhanced GPS infrastructure and provides consulting and project management services for naval forces.
 
Actively Pursuing direct exports
to Israel

 
Former CADSI member
 
Year Established: 1996
Primary Industry:
Computer Systems Design & Related
Imago Machine Vision Inc.
Gatineau QC
Portable fully integrated automatic video target tracker, performing accurate real-time position, velocity measurement and miss-distance calculations.
 
Actively Pursuing direct exports
to Israel

 
Former CADSI member
 
Year Established: 1987
Primary Industry:
Measuring, Medical & Controlling Devices

Total Sales: $500,000 - $999,999
Export Sales: $200,000 - $499,999
Number of Employees: 8
IMP Group International Inc.,  Aerospace Division
Halifax NS
Ottawa ON
Full range of manufacturing, processing, inspection, test and support equipment for military aircraft. Maintenance, repair and overhaul, fleet management, engineering, modifications, upgrades; and wire harnesses for armoured vehicles. F-16
 

 
Current CADSI member

Note: A top company exec. is active on CADSI's "Government Relations Committee"
CANSEC
exhibitor
2008
Year Established: 1970
Primary Industry:
Aerospace Products & Parts

Total Sales: $50 million +
Export Sales: $50 million +
Number of Employees: 1300
iMPath Networks Ltd.
Ottawa ON
Halifax NS
Designer of video networking solutions for critical, real-time video monitoring and security applications with analytics for identity management and intrusion detection.
 
Direct exports to Israel Former CADSI member
 
Year Established: 1977
Primary Industry: Telephone Apparatus

Number of Employees: 40
IntelliView Technologies Inc.
Calgary AB
Produces cutting-edge technology for intelligent video surveillance, video analysis and image processing used by military institutions.
 
Actively Pursuing direct exports
to Israel

 
Former CADSI member CANSEC
exhibitor
2008
Year Established: 2003
Primary Industry: Audio & Video Equip't
Alternate Industries:
Manuf. & Reproducing Magnetic & Optical Media

Total Sales: $1 - $5 million
Export Sales: $100,000 - $199,999
Number of Employees: 27
ITS Electronics Inc.
Concord ON
Mobile satellite communication technology company that designs and builds high power solid state transmitters and transceivers for electronic warfare.
 
Direct exports to Israel Current CADSI member CANSEC
exhibitor
2008
Year Established: 1987
Primary Industry:
Radio, TV Broadcasting & Wireless Comm. Equip't
Alternate Industries:
All Other Electrical Equip't & Parts

Total Sales: $5 - $10 million
Export Sales: $5 - $10 million
Number of Employees: 60
K&Y Diamond Ltd.
St-Laurent QC
(plus operations in the USA)
Manufacturer of super-abrasive, ultra-precision diamond, turning tools for military industries producing aerospace and optical (infrared, thermal and night vision) systems.
 
Direct exports to Israel Current CADSI member
 
Year Established: 1976
Primary Industry: Abrasive Products
Alternate Industries:
* Hand Tools
* Machine Shops
* Other Metalworking Machinery

Total Sales: $5 - $10 million
Number of Employees: 25
Kontron Canada Inc.
Boisbriand QC
Manufactures single board computer systems for communications, command, control and intelligence, warfare telemetry, combat management, tactical battlefield radar and sensors, missile launchers, next generation combat systems and autonomous missile systems.   Direct exports to Israel Former CADSI member  
Primary Industry:
Computer and Peripheral Equipment Manufacturing

Total Sales: $50+ million
Export Sales: $50+ million
Number of Employees: 215

L-3 Communications - Electronic Systems
Toronto ON
Enfield NS
Manufactures tens of thousands of electronic assemblies for military intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance, communications, navigation, sensors, electro-optics, encryption, antennas, cockpit displays and weapon systems support. AH-64

F-15

F-16


 
Current CADSI member
(parent company)

Note: Top company execs. are active on CADSI's 2008 Board of Directors (exec.cttee.) and were on 2006 Board of Directors)
CANSEC
exhibitor
2008

(parent company)

Note: Company was a CANSEC sponsor in 2007

Year Established: 1960
Primary Industry:
Navigational & Guidance Instruments
Alternate Industries:
Engineering Services

Total Sales: $50 million +
Export Sales: $50 million +
Number of Employees: 500
L-3 Communications - Targa Systems
Ottawa ON
Designs and manufactures rugged data storage products for military uses including land, sea and air platforms, including custom stealth bomber mission loaders. F-15

F-16


 
Current CADSI member
(parent company)

Note: Top company execs. are active on CADSI's 2008 Board of Directors (exec.cttee.) and were on 2006 Board of Directors)
CANSEC
exhibitor
2008

(parent company)

Note: Company was a CANSEC sponsor in 2007

Year Established: 1981
Primary Industry:
Computer & Peripheral Equip't

Total Sales: $1 - $5 million
Export Sales: $500,000 - $999,999
Number of Employees: 40
Lockheed Martin Canada
(Its parent company is the prime contractor for the F-16)
Kanata ON
Montreal QC
Halifax NS
Victoria BC

 

 

Designs and manufacturers high-tech products and complex, large-scale military systems for land, sea and air-based weapons systems as well as live-fire and computer-simulated weapons training systems.
(For information about Lockheed Martin Canada's role in ballistic missile defence, see COAT's Press for Conversion! #57, pp.22-28)
F-16
 

 
Current CADSI member

Note: Top company execs are active on CADSI's Board of Directors and its Government Relations and  International Cttees.

CANSEC
exhibitor
2008

Note: Company was a CANSEC sponsor in 2007 and 2008

Primary Industry:
Navigational & Guidance Instruments
Luxell Technologies Inc.
Mississauga ON
Design, engineer, manufacture of ruggedized flat panel displays for aerospace, military, marine, land and specialized industrial applications. F-16
 

 
Former CADSI member

Note:
A top company exec. was active on CADSI's 2006 Board of Directors

 
Year Established: 1994
Primary Industry:
Computer & Peripheral Equip't
Alternate Industries:
* Semiconductor & Other Electronic Parts
* Aerospace Products & Parts
* Engineering Services
LYRtech
Quebec QC
(plus distributors in the US and 15 other countries)
Designs, prototypes and manufactures electronic products for military projects including digital signal processing technologies for large-area surveillance systems using electro-optical systems.
 
Direct exports to Israel Former CADSI member
 
Year Established: 1983
Primary Industry: Engineering Services
Alternate Industries:
* Computer & Peripheral Equip't
* Semiconductor & Other Electronic Parts
* Measuring, Medical & Controlling Devices
* Military Services

Total Sales: $5 - $10 million
Export Sales: $500,000 - $999,999
Number of Employees: 80
MacDonald, Dettwiler & Associates Ltd.
Richmond BC
Owns and operates publicly-funded Canadian RADARSAT 1 and 2 satellites to gather, process and deliver mission-critical data for targetting and other war-fighting and intelligence functions.
(Click here for information about MDA's role in RADARSAT and its military role, see COAT's Press for Conversion! #58)

 
Direct exports to Israel Current CADSI member CANSEC
exhibitor
2008
Year Established: 1969
Primary Industry:
R&D in Physical, Eng. & Life Sciences
Alternate Industries:
* Computer & Peripheral Equip't
* Navigational & Guidance Instruments
* Measuring, Medical & Controlling Devices
* Aerospace Products & Parts
* Computer Systems Design & Related

Total Sales: $50 million +
Export Sales: $50 million +
Number of Employees: 3300
Magellan Aerospace Corporation
Mississauga ON
Kitchener ON
Haley ON
Langley BC
Winnipeg MB

(plus operations in US and UK)
Designs and manufactures, military aeroengine and aerostructure components, including rocket weapon systems fired by helicopters and warplanes, and provides maintenance, repair, overhaul services. AH-64
 
Current CADSI member CANSEC
exhibitor
2008
Year Established: 1995
Primary Industry:
Aerospace Products & Parts

Total Sales: $50 million +
Export Sales: $50 million +
Number of Employees: 3000
Mecachrome Technologies Inc.
Montreal QC
Toronto ON
Designs, manufactures and assembles complex, precision-engineered components for military aircraft including electrica, fuel, hydraulic and power plant/ propulsion systems.
 
Direct exports to Israel Former CADSI member
 
Year Established: 1937
Primary Industry: Engineering Services
Alternate Industries:
* Machine Shops
* Aerospace Products & Parts
* Industrial Design Services

Total Sales: $50 million +
Number of Employees: 2000
Meta Vision Systems Inc.
Montreal QC
(plus operations in UK)
Manufactures 3D machine vision systems with laser-based sensors, high-speed image processing hardware and specialized software for 3D measurement used for military industrial production.
 
Direct exports to Israel Former CADSI member
 
Year Established: 1985
Primary Industry:
All Other General-Purpose Machinery

Total Sales: $1 - $5 million
Export Sales: $1 - $5 million
Number of Employees: 22
Metal Improvement Company LLC
(a division of Curtiss Wright Corp.)
Brampton ON
Ingersoll ON
Manufacturing and metal finishing services such as shot and soft media blasting; glass bead, laser and shot peening. F-16
 

 
Current CADSI member
(parent company)

 
Year Established: 1968
Primary Industry:
Coating, Engraving, Heat Treating

Total Sales: $1 - $99,999
Export Sales: $1 - $99,999
Number of Employees: 60
Metcalfe and Associates
Stittsville ON
Marketing support services, international business development services and government relations consulting.
 
Direct exports to Israel Current CADSI member
 
Primary Industry:
Other Management Consulting Services
MPB Technologies Inc.
Pointe Claire QC
(plus other MPB companies in Edmonton, Airdrie and Calgary AB Ottawa ON)
Designs, develops and manufactures communications equipment, fiber amplifiers, fiber lasers (CW and pulsed, IR and visible), and robotics products for military use.
 
Direct exports to Israel Current CADSI member
 
Year Established: 1977
Primary Industry:
Radio, TV Broadcasting & Wireless Comm. Equip't

Total Sales: $25 - $50 million
Export Sales: $25 - $50 million
Number of Employees: 200
MSE of Canada Ltd.
Concord ON
Designs and manufactures insulation monitors for electrical motors, generators, transformers, power and control systems onboard Navy warships.
 
Direct exports to Israel Former CADSI member
 
Year Established: 1978
Primary Industry:
Measuring, Medical & Controlling Devices

Total Sales: $500,000 - $999,999
Export Sales: $100,000 - $199,999
Number of Employees: 5
MXI Security
Saint-Laurent QC
Manufactures highly-portable digital security devices that seamlessly integrate into the existing security assets of the US Army, Air Force, Navy, Department of Defense Joint Chiefs of Staff, and secret service.   Direct exports to Israel Current CADSI member  
Year Established: 1984
Primary Industry: Computer and Peripheral Equipment Manufacturing

Total Sales: $25 - $50 million
Export Sales: $10 - $25 million
Number of Employees: 145

Nanowave Technologies Inc.
Etobicoke ON
RF, microwave and millimeter-wave components and subsystems for military use including hybrid assembly and testing of airborne electronic warfare systems and terrestrial, airborne and satellite communications.
 
Direct exports to Israel Current CADSI member
 
Year Established: 1992
Primary Industry:
Semiconductor & Other Electronic Parts
Alternate Industries:
* Radio, TV Broadcasting & Wireless Comm. Equip't
* Navigational & Guidance Instruments

Total Sales: $10 - $25 million
Export Sales: $10 - $25 million
Number of Employees: 125
Northstar Aerospace - Milton
Milton ON
Manufactures ultra-precise, high-tech metal-based components for helicopters, warplanes and satellite assemblies including gears, gearboxes, rotor heads and structural airframe components. AH-64
 
Former CADSI member
 
Year Established: 1993
Primary Industry:
Aerospace Products & Parts

Total Sales: $50 million +
Export Sales: $50 million +
Number of Employees: 650
PCI Geomatics
Richmond Hill ON
(plus sales reps in the US and a dozen other countries)
Develops geomatics software for military mapping and visualization such as target identification using remote-sensing satellite data, including from Canada's RADARSAT 1 and 2 satellites.
 
Direct exports to Israel Former CADSI member
 
Year Established: 1982
Primary Industry:
Computer Systems Design & Related
Alternate Industries:
Surveying & Mapping Services

Total Sales: $1 - $5 million
Export Sales: $200,000 - $499,999
Number of Employees: 150
PDI and Harvard University Global System
Gatineau QC
Consulting services, management education, training systems and performance-improvement products in use by many military institutions around the world.
 
Direct exports to Israel Former CADSI member
 
Year Established: 1973
Primary Industry:
Professional & Management Development Training
Alternate Industries:
* Other Publishers
* Computer Systems Design & Related
* Management Consulting Services
* All Other Schools & Instruction

Total Sales: $5 - $10 million
Export Sales: $1 - $5 million
Plant CML
Gatineau QC
Owned by EADS, one of the world's largest weapons companies, CML designs and manufactures secure digital telecommunications switching equipment for military use.
 
Actively Pursuing direct exports
to Israel
Former CADSI member
 
Year Established: 1979
Primary Industry: Telephone Apparatus

Total Sales: $10 - $25 million
Export Sales: $10 - $25 million
Number of Employees: 185
Pleora Technologies
Kanata ON
 
Manufactures high-performance machine vision, broadcast video and security/surveillance equipment for military use, such as instant video imaging in armored vehicles for target acquisition and local situation awareness.   Direct exports to Israel Former CADSI member  
Year Established: 2000
Primary Industry:
Computer and Peripheral Equipment Manufacturing
Total Sales: $5 - $10 million
Export Sales: $5 - $10 million
Number of Employees: 35
Presagis
Montréal QC
(plus operations in USA, UK and France)
Produces computer technology for modeling, simulation and embedded-display graphics software used by the world's top war industry manufacturers for weapons and other military applications. AH-64 Direct exports to Israel Current CADSI member CANSEC
exhibitor
2008

Note: Company was a CANSEC sponsor in 2008

Year Established: 1985
Primary Industry:
Computer Systems Design & Related

Number of Employees: 200
Proparms Ltd.
Therese Carignan QC
Manufactures explosives and surface-use explosive ordnance disposal (EOD) tools and equipment; Engineering and training for military and police in EOD and counter-IED (improvised explosive device) scenarios. Specialty in robot integration.
 
Direct exports to Israel Current CADSI member
 
Year Established: 1973
Primary Industry: Explosives

Total Sales: $1 - $5 million
Export Sales: $1 - $5 million
Number of Employees: 22
Psion Teklogix Inc.
Mississauga ON
Manufactures and provides service and support for rugged, hand-held mobile computing devices that provide image-capture and UHF radio-frequency ID functions for military applications.
 
Direct exports to Israel Former CADSI member CANSEC
exhibitor
2008
Year Established: 1967
Primary Industry:
Computer & Peripheral Equip't
Alternate Industries:
Computer Systems Design & Related

Total Sales: $50 million +
Export Sales: $50 million +
Number of Employees: 1200
PwM Consulting
Carp ON
Specializing in market studies, research, logistics and product support, PwM provides business management consulting and promotional services for military companies. It main client is Elbit Systems, a top Israeli military weapons producer.
 
Direct exports to Israel Current CADSI member
 
Year Established: 1998
Primary Industry:
Other Management Consulting Services
Quanser Inc.
Markham ON
Manufacturer of advanced remote-control systems and robotics for military use including unmanned aerial vehicles and unmanned ground vehicles.
 
Direct exports to Israel Former CADSI member
 
Year Established: 1990
Primary Industry:
R&D in Physical, Eng. & Life Sciences
Alternate Industries:
* Computer & Peripheral Equip't
* Software Publishers

Total Sales: $5 - $10 million
Export Sales: $1 - $5 million
Number of Employees: 35
Raytheon Canada Ltd - Waterloo Facility
Waterloo ON
Develops and manufactures radar, signal processing and data management systems for military applications on land and at sea.
 
Actively Pursuing direct exports
to Israel

 
Current CADSI member
(parent company)

Note: A top company exec. was active on CADSI's 2006 Board of Directors
CANSEC
exhibitor
2008

(parent company)

Note: It was a CANSEC sponsor in 2007 and 2008

Year Established: 1956
Primary Industry:
Navigational & Guidance Instruments

Total Sales: $50 million +
Export Sales: $25 - $50 million
Number of Employees: 310
ReflectoSphere Division
Fergus ON
Manufacturer/distributor of army and navy specification paints using proprietary processes for retro-reflective surfaces and specialized design of top quality reflective microspheres.
 
Actively Pursuing direct exports
to Israel

 
Former CADSI member
 
Year Established: 1991
Primary Industry: Paint & Coating
Alternate Industries:
All Other Misc. Manufacturing

Total Sales: $1 - $5 million
Export Sales: $1 - $5 million
Number of Employees: 4
Rockwell Automation - Canada
(Allen Bradley Canada)
Cambridge ON
Manufactures automation equipment for military industries, including switchgear, switchboard, relay and industrial control apparatus manufacturing. F-15
 
Former CADSI member
 
Year Established: 1952
Primary Industry:
Switchgear, Switchboard, Relay & Industrial Control Apparatus

Total Sales: $50 million +
Export Sales: $10 - $25 million
Number of Employees: 904
Securesearch Inc.**
Scarborough ON
Starting in 1970 as the "Research Council on Civil Disorders" think tank to study terrorism, riots and urban guerrillas, it now produces posters, videos and courses on explosives and firearms for dozens of police, military and intelligence agencies.
 
Direct exports to Israel Current CADSI member
 
Year Established: 1970
Primary Industry:
Educational Support Services
Alternate Industries:
* R&D in the Social Sciences & Humanities
* All Other Schools & Instruction

Total Sales: $500,000 - $999,999
Export Sales: $500,000 - $999,999
Number of Employees: 7
SED Systems
(a division of CALIAN Ltd.)
Saskatoon SK
Engineering and electronics manufacturing including military communications and ground systems, testing and operations support for military-related satellites, including Canada's RADARSAT 1 and 2.
(See COAT magazine issue #58 on RADARSAT.)

 
Actively Pursuing direct exports
to Israel

 
Current CADSI member CANSEC
exhibitor
2008
Year Established: 1965
Primary Industry: Telephone Apparatus
Alternate Industries:
* Power, Distribution & Specialty Transformers
* Engineering Services

Total Sales: $50 million +
Export Sales: $25 - $50 million
Number of Employees: 240
SEI Industries Inc.
Delta BC
Designs and manufactures structural engineered fabric products for military use including a high-pressure, warplane-refuelling system.
 
Actively Pursuing direct exports
to Israel

 
Current CADSI member CANSEC
exhibitor
2008
Year Established: 1978
Primary Industry:
Environmental Consulting Services
Alternate Industries: Aerospace Products & Parts

Total Sales: $1 - $5 million
Export Sales: $1 - $5 million
Number of Employees: 100
Shellcast Foundries Inc.
Montreal QC
Manufacturer of precision aluminium investment castings by the lost wax process for aerospace, military and satellite applications.
 
Direct exports to Israel Current CADSI member CANSEC
exhibitor
2008
Year Established: 1971
Primary Industry: Steel Foundries

Total Sales: $10 - $25 million
Export Sales: $10 - $25 million
Number of Employees: 138
Smith's Detection
Mississauga ON
Laval QC
Manufactures trace-chemical detection and x-ray imaging sensors to identify explosives, chemical and biological agents and weapons.
 
Actively Pursuing direct exports
to Israel

 
Current CADSI member CANSEC
exhibitor
2008

Note: Company was a CANSEC sponsor in 2007

 

Year Established: 1961
Primary Industry:
Measuring, Medical & Controlling Devices
Alternate Industries:
* Electronic Parts, Navig. & Comm. Equip't
* Professional Machinery, Equip't & Supplies Wholesaler

Total Sales: $10 - $25 million
Export Sales: $10 - $25 million
Number of Employees: 350
SNC Technologies Inc.
(now General Dynamics Ordnance & Tactical Systems-Canada)
Le Gardeur QC
Nicolet QC
St-Augustin-de-Desmaures QC
Valleyfield QC

(plus operations in USA and Belgium)
One of the world’s leading makers of ammunition from small (5.56mm) to large (155mm) calibres, to pyrotechnics, demolition devices and grenades for battlefield as well as specialised training munitions. F-15

F-16


 
Current CADSI member
(GD OTS Cda)
 
CANSEC
exhibitor
2008
Year Established: 1940
Primary Industry: Explosives

Total Sales: $50 million +
Export Sales: $25 - $50 million
Number of Employees: 400
SOGENTI Inc
Montreal QC
One of Canada's largest independent distributors of electronic components supplying all types of integrated circuits, semiconductors and passive components for military and other applications.
 
Direct exports to Israel Former CADSI member
 
Primary Industry:
Electronic Parts, Navigational & Comm. Equip't
Primary Business Activity: Trading House/Wholesaler/Agent & Distributor
Solectron Technical Centre
(formerly C-MAC Engineering Inc)
Ottawa ON
Designs and tests custom high technology electronic circuits, PCBs, subassemblies and systems in communications, detection, signal processing and control applications. F-16
 

 
Former CADSI member
 
Primary Industry: Engineering Services
Soucy Plastiques Inc
Drummondville QC
Saint-Jérôme QC Sherbrooke QC
(plus operations in Sweden & China)
Manufactures moulded tracks, plastic sprockets, metal components and wheels with rubber tires for tanks and other military vehicles.
 
Actively Pursuing direct exports
to Israel

 
Current CADSI member
 
Year Established: 1981
Primary Industry:
All Other Plastic Products

Total Sales: $10 - $25 million
Export Sales: $5 - $10 million
Number of Employees: 115
Sparton Electronics
London ON
(plus operations in US and Vietnam)
Design and manufacture of electronic microcircuits and electromechanical products for antisubmarine warfare, underwater mines, depth charges; military airborne radar, night vision and communications. F-15

F-16


 
Current CADSI member
 
Year Established: 1930
Primary Industry: Engineering Services
Alternate Industries:
Semiconductor & Other Electronic Parts

Number of Employees: 126
Spectrum Signal Processing by Vecima
Burnaby BC
(plus sales partners in USA and 11 other countries, including Israel)
Manufactures software products and engineering services for military electronics applications optimized for military communications, signals intelligence, surveillance, electronic warfare and satellite communications.
 
Direct exports to Israel Current CADSI member CANSEC
exhibitor
2008
Primary Industry: Radio, TV Broadcasting & Wireless Comm. Equip't
Alternate Industries:
Computer Systems Design & Related
Standard Aero Ltd
Winnipeg MB
Calgary AB
Montreal QC
Toronto ON
Richmond BC
Maintenance, repair and overhaul services for military aircraft engines and does depot-level maintenance of over half of the world's Rolls-Royce Allison T56/501 military aviation engines.
 
Actively Pursuing direct exports
to Israel

 
Former CADSI member
 
Year Established: 1911
Primary Industry:
Aerospace Products & Parts
Alternate Industries:
* Other Support Activities for Air Transportation
* Commercial & Industrial Machinery & Equip't (except Auto. & Electronic) Repair & Maintenance

Total Sales: $50 million +
Export Sales: $50 million +
Number of Employees: 2500
Streit Manufacturing Inc.
Innisfil ON
Designs and manufactures armoured, luxury SUVs for business execs plus armoured cars and trucks for military, paramilitary and police uses including Special Weapons and Tactics, Rapid Response, and Riot Control.
 
Actively Pursuing direct exports
to Israel

 
Current CADSI member
 
Year Established: 1996
Primary Industry: Heavy-Duty Truck

Total Sales: $10 - $25 million
Export Sales: $10 - $25 million
Number of Employees: 40
TACO Communications Inc.
(a division of Wade Antenna)
Brantford ON
(plus sales office in USA)
Designs and manufactures rugged VHF/UHF ground-to-air, ground-to-ground, and shipboard communication antennas for military contractors.
 
Direct exports to Israel Current CADSI member CANSEC
exhibitor
2008
Year Established: 2001
Primary Industry:
Radio, TV Broadcasting & Wireless Comm. Equip't

Total Sales: $5 - $10 million
Export Sales: $1 - $5 million
Number of Employees: 28
Team Industrial Services
Milton ON
(plus operations in two dozen locations in AB, BC, NL, NS and SK)
Provides a wide range of on-site metal heat treating equipment and services.
 
Direct exports to Israel Former CADSI member
 
Primary Industry:
All Other General-Purpose Machinery
Alternate Industries: Machine Shops
TeraXion Inc. Manufactures optical components, modules and laser systems for directed-energy laser weapons, remote sensing, and optical and radio frequency communications.   Direct exports to Israel Current CADSI member  
Year Established: 2000
Primary Industry:
Commercial & Service Industry Machinery
Alternate Industries:
Other Communications Equipment

Export Sales: $10 - $25 million
Number of Employees: 140
Tiger-Vac International Inc.
Laval QC
(plus operations in USA and Italy)
Manufacturers vacuum systems for contamination, controlled environments and hazardous locations.
 
Direct exports to Israel Former CADSI member
 
Year Established: 1984
Primary Industry:
Commercial & Service Industry Machinery

Total Sales: $1 - $5 million
Export Sales: $1 - $5 million
Number of Employees: 35
Ultra Electronics Telemus
Ottawa ON
Manufactures tactical military and sonar systems for Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance, Electronic Countermeasures and Electronic Warfare systems.

(For information on Telemus' role in ballistic missile defence, see COAT's Press for Conversion! issue 57, pp.35-40.)


 
Actively Pursuing direct exports
to Israel

 
Current CADSI member
(parent company)
CANSEC
exhibitor
2008

(a sister company)
Year Established: 1994
Primary Industry:
Radio, TV Broadcasting & Wireless Comm. Equip't
Alternate Industries:
* Computer & Peripheral Equip't
* Other Comm. Equip't
* Navigational & Guidance Instruments
* Measuring, Medical & Controlling Devices

Number of Employees: 25
Vestshell Inc
Montreal QC
Canada'a premier steel foundry manufactures precision, ferrous investment castings and all required tooling for many North American and European military prime contractors.
 
Direct exports to Israel Current CADSI member
 
Year Established: 1963
Primary Industry: Steel Foundries

Total Sales: $10 - $25 million
Export Sales: $5 - $10 million
Number of Employees: 125
Weatherhaven
Burnaby BC
Designs, manufactures and installs durable, air-transportable fabric structures for highly-mobile military field operations throughout the world.
 
Direct exports to Israel Current CADSI member CANSEC
exhibitor
2008
Year Established: 1982
Primary Industry:
Prefab. Metal Bldgs. & Parts

Total Sales: $10 - $25 million
Export Sales: $5 - $10 million
Number of Employees: 35
Wiebel Aerospace (1995) Inc.
(a member of Northstar Network Ltd.)
Summerside PEI
Designs and manufactures many hydraulic assemblies and precision-machined components, such as landing gear systems for major warplane manufacturers, and provides repair and overhaul services for military aircraft. F-15
 
Current CADSI member
(through the Northstar Nertwork)

 
Year Established: 1995
Primary Industry: Aerospace Products & Parts

Total Sales: $5 - $10 million
Export Sales: $1 - $5 million
Number of Employees: 52
WR Davis Engineering Limited
Ottawa ON
Manufactures electronic and infrared signature suppression systems for warships and warplanes; Training aids and armament training devices; camouflage and deception equipment for trucks.
 
Actively Pursuing direct exports
to Israel

 
Former CADSI member
 
Year Established: 1975
Primary Industry: Engineering Services
Alternate Industries:
* All Other Electrical Equip't & Parts
* Aerospace Products & Parts

Number of Employees: 95

Sources

Locations
If there is more than one location listed, the first location is the head office or primary site of manufacturing.

Company Facts
This general information about the company is from Industry Canada's "Canadian Company Capabilities" (CCC) database. This Canadian government database is maintained and updated by the companies themselves.

Summary of Main Military Products and/or Services
These descriptions of the military aspect of these companies work summarises data from a variety of sources, primarily from the industries themselves, their websites and/or various corporate and government databases.

F-15, F-16 and AH-64
For details on the exact sources of information on each company's complicity in supplying parts and/or services for these three major weapons systems, please refer to the following three data tables compiled by the Coalition to Oppose the Arms Trade:

F-15: Canadian War Industries supplying Parts and/or Services for the F-15 "Eagle" Tactical Fighter/Bomber

F-16: Canadian War Industries supplying Parts and/or Services for the F-16 "Fighting Falcon" Fighter/Bomber

AH-64: Canadian War Industries supplying Parts and/or Services for the AH-64 "Apache" Helicopter Gunship

(The above three tables also contain additional information, including the many wars and major military interventions/operations in which these weapons systems have been employed, and the types of rockets and bombs they are equipped to use.)

CADSI Membership
Data on current membership in the Canadian Association of Defence and Security Industries (CADSI) is based on data from the online "CADSI Member Profiles Database" (early February, 2009).

Former CADSI membership is based on
archived listings in the CADSI Member Profiles Database (2006, 2007, 2008, 2009), as well as membership listings for CADSI's predecessor organisation, the "Canadian Defence Industries Association" (2000, 2001, 2002, 2003).

CANSEC 2008 Exhibitor
List of Exhibitors at CANSEC 2008 in Ottawa (Canada's largest arms show is organized by CADSI)


This web page is part of an online report called:
Canadian Military Exports to Israel: Aiding and Abetting War Crimes in Gaza (2008-2009).

The report includes 11 detailed tables filled with data detailing about 200 Canadian military companies that have direct or indirect export links to Israel. 

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