How Esquif Canoes Made the Most of a Factory Fire and an 8-Week Shutdown At this Canadian canoe maker's factory, a specialty material oven caught fire on Oct. 1, halting operations until yesterday.

Esquif’s Heron is a high-quality canoe with the capacity of a skiff. At 14-feet, 6-inches long, the Heron has room for three anglers. And with an 800-pound capacity, there’s also space for tackle, ...

Quebec canoe manufacturer Esquif debuts T-Formex, a moldable ABS material poised to be a lighter and more resistant alternative to defunct Royalex, RIP.

Esquif, a French-Canadian manufacturer of a variety of Royalex canoes, is a whitewater canoe company, and so naturally river-running is the direction in which they take the design of their ...

But these days, with the help of Canadian canoe company Esquif's replacement product dubbed T-Formex, two northwest Arkansas canoe makers are back in business.

When the supply of Royalex dried up years ago, Arkansas-based canoe makers who rely on the material found themselves up a creek without a paddle. Skip to content. Close. Back ...