Maple Skate
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Maple Skate is a Dutch speed skate and tool manufacturing company. Founded in 1990, the company has become a well used brand of skates among short and long track speed skaters.
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Maple Skate manufactures mainly short and long track ice skates, Ranging from beginner high rise, plastic boot skates, to the 'top of the line', Comet Steel. They also manufacture skate boots, inline skates, blade benders, sharpening jigs, sharpeningstones, de-burring tools, backpacks, helmets, blade covers, and laces. Since the introduction of Maple Gold in 1996, Maple has increased their range of skates and boots to cater to all levels of skaters, in hopes of dominating the worldwide speed skate market.
Maple has been growing ever since it’s creation, and that growth was only increased when 8 out of 8 Olympic Short Track speed skating gold medalists and 5 out of 12 Long Track gold medalist choose to use Maple skates in the Torino 2006 Olympic winter games.
Maple manufactures 4 different lines of long track skates, and 6 lines of short track skates. Comet steel, Comet Alu, Blizzard, and Multiskate are the long track skates, and the shorttrack skates are Maddog, Duro, Gold, Superflex, Chrome, and Premium. Maple also manufacturers skate boots. The long track models G4 and Silver together with the entry level boot Blizzard Jr. For the short track market they manufacture the ST Silver and Premium jr. boots.
