Deep Trekker has officially expanded its global headquarters in Kitchener, Ontario, adding approximately 18,000 square feet of space to scale its capacity to design, build, test, and support underwater remotely operated vehicles and utility crawlers.
The expansion follows sustained international demand across sectors including aquaculture, marine science, infrastructure, shipping, port security, defense, public safety, energy, and commercial diving. Operators deploy the systems to inspect submerged assets, conduct search and recovery operations, monitor net pens, and operate in hazardous environments.
The increased footprint directly addresses rising production demands as commercial and institutional contracts increasingly call for fleet-level deployments.
Cody Warner, Vice President, Commercial, commented, “The expansion of our facility has allowed us to create efficiency across our processes, enabling us to have capacity to deliver larger contracts in shorter timelines. Deep Trekker’s growth includes contracts with larger entities that require ROVs by the dozens or even hundreds, and with our expanded facility and increased team size, we are able to deliver reliably on these types of contracts.”
The expanded headquarters incorporates enlarged manufacturing space to support assembly across the full product portfolio, which includes the DTG3, PHOTON, PIVOT, REVOLUTION, and SPECTRA ROVs, the MAG, VAC, and VAC MAX utility crawlers, and the A-200 and A-150 pipe crawlers. The layout also includes enlarged customer support, sales, and service wings, as well as dedicated facilities for product engineering and evaluation.
Chad Plesa-Naden, Engineering Director at Deep Trekker, explains what the new space means for the team, “Over the past ten years, we’ve moved through three buildings and grown more than tenfold, each move driven by the growth needed to meet our customers’ needs. What excites me most about this space is what it lets our team do. With expanded in-house engineering, R&D, and test areas, we can design, test, and refine vehicles more quickly than ever, which means better products in our customers’ hands sooner.”
Beyond expanding floor space, the facility overhaul redesigned workflow movement and operational infrastructure to maintain production efficiency alongside portfolio expansion.
Colin Vander Glas, Operations Director at Deep Trekker, added, “This expansion lets us grow within our operating model, not just around it. By redesigning how work moves through our facility and strengthening the processes and systems behind it, we can scale with confidence and keep pace with our customers’ expectations as our product line grows.”
The Kitchener expansion, which marked its grand opening in September 2026, aligns with a wider international expansion. Deep Trekker recently established an office in the United States alongside its locations in Chile and Europe, with further regional sites planned as global deployments continue to increase.
