Arctic Spas
Arctic Spas is Blue Falls Manufacturing's flagship brand of hot tubs, developed as a niche product for cold climates. The hot tubs and all-weather pools are made and manufactured in Canada and exported to the United States, Australia, and Europe. History and growth Blue Falls Manufacturing was founded in the late 1980s as Koko Beach Hot Tub Manufacturing in Edmonton, Alberta. It was purchased in 1997 by its current owners, who were, at the time, employees of Blue Falls. The new owners soon began producing the Arctic Spas brand. In 2001 the company moved to Thorsby and constructed a facility (later expanded to ), largely because land for a new factory was much cheaper in Thorsby than in Edmonton. In 2003, the company purchased a facility in Coleman, Alberta to manufacture some of their models. The company relies on winter climate branding and energy-efficient technology; testing by provincial authority Alberta Innovates Technology Futures (then the Alberta Research Council) determined that Arctic Spas hot tubs were thirty percent more energy efficient than the competitors that they tested. In early 2013 they launched a brand of swimming machine, called the All Weather Pool. Overseas operations The company focused on the European export