Who We Are
Established in 1986, Mantis is proudly 100% Canadian owned and operated. We have a long and rich history in driving the development and launch of innovative product solutions into market.
Our goal is simple: create innovative solutions to simplify your everyday. Our products allow you to work smarter, be more efficient and to adapt as your tools, technology and job needs evolve.
You Should Know
Our core values are honesty, integrity, uncompromising quality and a passion for excellence.
At Mantis, we demand excellence from one another.
Passion for excellence is an innate desire to give your best, to operate from a position of thoroughness and to seek new challenges. It requires commitment and integrity. You could say excellence is in our DNA.
Our Guarantee
We pride ourselves on working directly with our customers to create solutions that are functional, efficient and the best possible representation of their company’s vision.
When creating new products, we put ourselves in your shoes. Our team looks beyond the “norm”, ventures down new paths and always pursues opportunities to improve.
We are passionate about what we do and are dedicated to continually invest in new processes and equipment, our facilities, and our people, for years to come.
Rather than provide "one size fits all” solutions, we think outside the box and focus on innovation. At Mantis, we create solutions to meet your company’s specific requirements and unique challenges.
Mantis offers a variety of technologies and manufacturing processes to meet and exceed your quality expectations. We provide in-house design and development services to ensure a quick turnaround to production.
Mantis works closely with our partners and is committed to:
Engineering new and innovative product solutions
Just-in-time shipping
Pull through support
We Work With:
Tool Chest Manufacturers
Tool & Equipment Distributors
Industry and Manufacturing Sectors
Garage Designers & Builders
I would like to take this time to introduce myself to all of our customers. It has been my honour to step in after Wally’s passing and dedicate myself to his vision. Wally wanted his legacy to live on long after he passed and we will make sure it does. I look forward to meeting all of you as time goes by, and forming new relationships with the next generation of customers like you.
Our team is dedicated to delivering competitive solutions that exceed expectations. At Mantis our success is based on honesty, integrity, uncompromising quality along with a passion for excellence. We will never waiver from this because it is built into our DNA.
Michele Lancia
President
Founded in 1986 by Walter Fiore Maruzzo, an immigrant from Taurasi, Italy.
Wally would talk about how hard he had it as a child growing up in Italy. It wasn’t easy, his family was very poor and there was little work, and even less food. He remembered going to bed without any thing to eat, many a night.
After arriving in Canada in June of 1955 he fell in love with this country. His first job at 9 years old was at a gas station at Bronte and Lakeshore. He was elated to learn, that if he just worked hard, he could buy food and never feel hungry again. And that he did.
Wally was an innovator, teacher, designer, visionary, genius and pioneer. Wally would often say
“every job worth doing, is worth doing right”.
He made it his mission to work hard and forge ahead with a passion for excellence with every project he was involved in.
As the business continued to grow, Wally set plans in motion for a new expansion in 2018.
He was so proud, as he watched the new 27,000sqf addition being erected.
Sadly, Wally passed away in January 2020, only months before completion, but his dedicated family at Mantis will continue his legacy, as we all loved him, and miss him dearly.
March 24, 1946 - January 15, 2020
Michele Lancia
President