MTI Adventurewear

At MTI Adventurewear, we specialize in making PFDs. Our attention and resources don’t wander off to making boats or selling paddles. Our focus is on Coast Guard approved PFD designs and manufacturing them in an ISO9000 certified factory in modern Shanghai that is owned by the Takashina family.  Our move into the Plympton sales and distribution facility in 2006 transformed our ability to better serve our dealer network across the country. Together this allows us to bring superior products at affordable prices to the market.

We spend a lot of time considering what people need and want in a PFD, often bringing the experience of our own staff to the design table. Our IT manager, Justin, is an ACA open boat canoe & sea kayak instructor. Our sales manager, Kevin, is a competitive sailor on the famous 12-meter Intrepid, a two-time winner of the America's Cup. Our president, Gordon, and his wife, Lili, our marketing director, met while working for Mad River Canoe. The idea for the PFDiva came from Lili’s visit to a well known lingerie store. “If they can make the “perfect bra” with soft neoprene, what can we learn from that for making a better fitting PFD for women?” A number of the staff have kids who spend their summers “on-water” and “in-boats”– the perfect test subjects for designing for “performance family paddling”. Our VP of Sales and Marketing, John, has years of paddlesports experience (more years than he wants to admit). His most recent on-water adventure? A month rafting the Grand Canyon with his wife on a private permit with good friends.  Product testing doesn’t get better than that. Did we mention that we love what we do?