Business News : Point65°N to Manufacture Kayaks in New York

SportsOneSource Media     Posted: 6/4/2012

To best fulfill large stocking orders from US sporting goods retailers, Swedish company Point65°N has moved production of its innovatively designed Apollo, Snap OnTop Kayaks to the Roth Global Plastics manufacturing facility in Syracuse, NY.

“We are exceptionally pleased to bring the manufacturing of these products to Syracuse,” says Richard Ohman, Founder & Owner at Point65°N Kayaks, Sweden. “Roth provides not only the expertise and efficiencies we require to produce these boats, but offers technology not available in China.”

Roth Global Plastics owns the world's largest blow mold machine which can extrude up to 1,000 pounds of high-density polyethylene, enabling the production of items up to 15 feet long and 6 feet in diameter in its Syracuse plant. (The next largest machine in North America handles 250 pounds.)

“Roth Global Plastics is excited to be manufacturing kayaks for Point65°N”, says John Pezzi, the company’s vice president of plant operations. “It’s rare that foreign companies bring manufacturing into the United States and we are thrilled to be a part of it. The seasonality of the recreational water sports is perfectly counter-cyclical to that of our septic tank manufacturing business and helps keep the facility at a higher overall level of utilization throughout the year.”

“As the exclusive U.S. Distributor for Point65°N kayaks, we find significant advantage in having these products manufactured just across town”, states Geoffrey Lewis, president of WYNIT Distribution, LLC. “Our product management team now has exceptional access to key stages of the production process, ensuring that all requirements for the delivery of these products to our retail customers are on-track and properly executed.”

The patented innovative design of Point65°N Kayaks continues to drive demand for these products across the paddlesports market. Indeed, Legendary outfitter LL Bean will use Point65 modular kayak components to make the world longest kayak on June 2nd, attempting to get 100 of their employees into the nearly 500 foot long craft during their 31st Annual PaddleSports Weekend in Freeport, ME.

Website : http://www.point65.com/