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Space-Tech Lab

Canadian-owned · made in Canada · based in British Columbia

New Westminster, BC workshop making handcrafted tube amplifiers, DACs, phono stages, headphone amps, and speakers since 1996, sold factory-direct by appointment only.

New Westminster, BC CA · www.space-tech-lab.com

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Space-Tech Laboratory Ltd. is a New Westminster, BC company, active in BC's corporate registry since January 1996, that hand-builds tube preamplifiers, power amplifiers, DACs, phono stages, headphone amps, and speakers by appointment at its own workshop. It sells factory-direct only, states every product is designed, manufactured, and tested in Canada, and does not disclose the origin of its tubes and other components.

Factors

Ownership

100.0 reported

CA 100%

A Corporations Canada federal search for "Space-Tech" found no matching entity (the one hit, Blackswift Space & Tech Ltd., is unrelated) and a search for "Space-Tech Laboratory" returned zero results, confirming this is a BC-only registration with no federal significant-control register to consult; BC's OrgBook still confirms only that Space-Tech Laboratory Ltd. (BC0511358) is an active BC company registered January 8, 1996, with no shareholder data. The Better Business Bureau's Vancouver profile for the business, matching the vendor's own published phone number (604) 254-8133, lists "Sherry Chan, Owner" under both Business Management and Principal Contacts, so a third party now names an owner, raising confidence from inferred to reported. The vendor's own Company Profile page separately credits an engineer using the name "Albert LTS" as having led the company's audio design since 1995; that is a technical-leadership/founder claim, not itself a statement of ownership, and it does not contradict Chan being the registered owner of a small family-style operation. No source suggests any foreign owner, parent, or investor.

Manufacturing

100.0 reported

CA 100%

The vendor states on its home page, Learn More page, and shipping page that every product is entirely designed, manufactured, and tested in Canada, hand-wired point-to-point in its New Westminster workshop, and files this as a CUSMA-origin claim to exempt its gear from US tariffs. This is a consistent, repeated vendor statement rather than an independently verified fact.

People

100.0 reported

CA 100%

The only disclosed site is a by-appointment showroom and workshop at Cumberland Street and Courtney Crescent in New Westminster, BC, where the vendor says its design engineers work. A Markham, Ontario contact and a Hong Kong firm are named as an independent repair agent and an overseas sales distributor rather than staff, so they do not change the single-site picture.

Inputs

34.0 inferred

CA 30% · other 50% · US 20%

Space-Tech Lab does not disclose where its vacuum tubes, transformers, or general electronic components come from, and Canada has no domestic tube manufacturer, so the 300B, 845, 211, and other tubes used across its line are assumed imported, most plausibly from Asia. One amplifier's build sheet lists Western Electric (WE) wire, a US brand, as a premium upgrade. The split between Canadian-assembled hardware, such as its own balanced transformers, and imported tubes and parts is an estimate.

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