Company Profile

Sportop provides great quality promotional items, corporate gifts, custom embroidery, marrowing services, custom screen printing, screen printed numbers, and appliques.  Our large in-house production department is highly trained and specialized to offer you the best services.

10,000 square foot facility

Our 10,000 square foot building located in Thunder Bay, ON.
For driving directions, visit http://maps.google.com/ and type in 712 MacDonell Street, Thunder Bay, Ontario into the search box.

Promotional Items, custom embroidery, custom screen printing and corporate gifts

Sportop Marketing Inc. was established in January 1982 and our customers include small businesses, non-for-profit enterprises, resorts and lodges, as well as, big enterprises like the Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Centre,  Placer Dome MusselwhiteGold Mine, Kimberly Clarke Paper Mill, Calgary Olympics and the Canadian Open Golf Championship.

State-of-the-art equipment custom embroidery equipment and screen printing equipment

Our employee knowledge and expertise pays off in fast turnaround for our customers.  We guarantee our delivery dates because we know we can deliver on time.  To improve production rates, we invested in state-of-the-art screen printing machines and embroidery machines.  Our automatic screen printing machine prints 500 shirts an hour.  The embroidery machines are humming all day, and depending on the season, into the night.  View our custom embroidery or screen printing service pages for photos and more details.

What do we do?

• Produce custom screen printed garments (as opposed to heat transfers or digital imaging which can crack, fade and feel thick and uncomfortable) in our 10,000 square foot facility. Visit screen printing services for pictures and more detail.
• Digitize, turn designs into instructions that tell embroidery machines how to embroider.
• Embroider quality merchandise with our 48 heads of embroidery (See embroidery services for pictures and details).
• Sell quality promotional items, corporate gifts to help you advertise and brand your company or organization.
• Deliver on-time. We are so serious about delivering on-time that we operate through the night during peak seasons.
• Guarantee our work. Sportop always stands behind their product.

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Top ten reasons to choose us.

1. Great pricing. We have secured the best pricing from our suppliers because of our volume and these savings are transferred to you. Also, prices are listed in CAD dollars which means USA customers save approximately 20% than quoted web site prices.
2. Screen printing is the best . Unlike other methods like heat transfer and digital imaging, screen printing will last years and years without fading, washing out, cracking, or feeling stiff.
3. Low minimums. You can order as few as 12 items from us.
4. Guaranteed delivery dates. We can control the delivery dates for our customers since we do all our screen printing and embroidery work in our building.
5. Experience. High employee retention means people on the job who know their jobs well. Some members of our team have been with our for almost 20 years.
6. Industry know how. We have invested in our education through consultants and trade shows. We know how to print and embroider shirts properly. You can't imagine what can go wrong in the custom application process until you order from someone doesn't.
7. We care. We truly care about our customers and the success of our customer's events and businesess. Read testimonials.
8. We have secured well-known contracts like arm bands for the Calgary Olympics, hats for the Canadian Open, screen printed and embroidered products for large organizations such as Kimberly Clark, Bowater, Musselwhite Placerdome, Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Centre, etc.. They trust us to delivery quality products, at great prices and on-time -- so can you.
9. Top Quality Equipment. Our automatic screen printing machine prints 500 shirts an hour. We have a screen printing machine dedicated to screen printing numbers on jerseys, to avoid using heat-pressed numbers that peal off. We have manual printing machines for smaller or trickier jobs. Our dryer heats clothes to 350 degrees Celsius to cure the ink permanently into the fabric. We have 48 heads of embroidery, an art department with the best equipment to digitize embroidery designs, create screens etc.
10. Appreciation. We will appreciate your business no matter how small or how large. Your order matters to us because it matters to you. Give us a chance to prove it.