About Canvasland
Drop sheets and railway tarps first. Everything since.
Canvas and PVC has been our craft since 1987 — cut, welded and stitched in our own Levin workshop. Today that covers caravan awnings, marine covers, tarpaulins and contract manufacturing for other NZ brands — plus shade sails, outdoor blinds, awnings and glazed roofs that specialist partners build to our drawings — with our own team designing, fitting and standing behind every job. Same town, ever since.
OFPANZ Awards for Excellence — Winner 2017, 2018 and 2021, Tents, Marquees & Inflatables. Highly Commended, Blinds & Screens
Our story
One local team owns the whole job.
Starting in 1987 producing drop sheets and railway tarpaulins, we adapted as the work changed — into shade, weather protection, outdoor living and industrial textiles. Everything we manufacture is still made in our Levin workshop. Where a job calls for a specialist system, we measure it, design and spec it, and install it ourselves while a manufacturing partner builds to our drawings — Sunshade for shade sails, Rainbow Shade for our Ziptrak® screens, Cool Awnings for lateral arm awnings, CanopyTech for fixed roofs. Either way one local team owns the whole job, which is the only way we know to actually stand behind a fixed price.
Who owns it
I started here on summer installs. In 2017 we bought the business.
I grew up farming, and while I was studying agricultural commerce at Massey I spent three summers working at Canvasland, mostly out on installs. I liked the work and the way the place was run, so I asked Brendan Duffy whether he'd ever sell. In April 2017 my wife Tamar and I took over from Brendan and Sheryl, who had run it for 30 years.
Brendan stayed on to help with the handover, and I spent the first year learning from the crew before changing anything. Since then we've moved into a new workshop on Bush Street in Levin and kept adding to what we make. The way we work hasn't changed: we measure the job, make it or fit it, and stand behind it.
Daniel Taitoko
Why Canvasland
Made to fit, not off the shelf.
Made to Fit
Every job is measured on site and built to that space — not a generic size off a shelf.
Materials
UV-rated fabric, marine-grade fittings and aluminium chosen for what it actually has to survive.
One Crew, Start to Finish
One team quotes the job, manages the build and fits it — you deal with the same people from first visit to final handover.
