Can Industrial Supplies out of Acton, Ontario sells a fair budget kit — 450 GSM PE fabric on imported single- or double-truss frames — but ships you the boxes and walks away. The cover is acceptable for the price. The install is what decides whether it lasts five winters or twelve. Our crew installs every model in the lineup at flat-rate sizing on the homepage; a 40×80 runs $11,888 on a prepared pad.
Can Industrial Supplies is an Acton, Ontario reseller that has been operating since 2006. The catalogue is broader than the fabric buildings — they also move fencing, shipping containers, and general industrial supplies through dealer storefronts and Kijiji. The fabric building lineup itself runs from small single-truss bow-arch dome shelters in the 20-foot range up to 50×100 double-truss buildings, all wrapped in 450 GSM polyethylene fabric.
Distribution is consumer-direct. You'll find their kits on Kijiji, through a growing dealer network, and on canindustrial.com. What you will not find on the order confirmation is a crew. They sell the boxes. Anchoring, frame raising, fabric tensioning, doors, end-walls — all on you, or on whoever you hire. That's where we come in.
The lineup splits into three meaningfully different assemblies, and the install plan changes for each one.
Single-truss dome (bow-arch carport-style). The smallest and the fastest. Two crew can stand a 30×40 in a day and a half on a clean pad. The fabric is one or two large panels pulled over the frame and ratcheted to base rails — straightforward if the frame is square and the rails are level. It is unforgiving if either is out: a 1-inch racking error at the eaves shows up as 4 inches of fabric pucker at the peak.
Double-truss (bolted). Mid-sized and large units. The mainframes are bolted, not welded, which means rigid once set and slow to align before that. End-walls are the bottleneck on most jobs. Plan for an extra half-day vs. a single-truss of the same footprint, plus the same delta again if you're adding winch doors on both ends.
Container shelters. Mounts to a pair of shipping containers serving as the side walls. The whole job lives or dies on whether the customer's containers are parallel, square, and at the same elevation. They almost never are. We do a tape-and-laser pre-check before the kit comes off the trailer; if the containers are out by more than an inch end-to-end we shim or re-set them before any fabric work starts.
Hardware ships imported and packed by piece-count rather than by sub-assembly. We empty every bag onto a tarp and sort against the schematic before the first bolt goes in. About 1 in 20 kits comes short on something small — usually a few self-tapping screws or a missing hex bolt set — and finding that on the tarp instead of at the peak with the lift up saves the day.
Same crew rate that applies to every brand we install. Pricing is by size, not by manufacturer.
Full table from 20×40 up to 70×200 is on the homepage and the installation costs guide.
Installation covers full crew, frame assembly, fabric tensioning, doors, and anchoring to your prepared foundation. Equipment (manlifts), travel beyond same-day Alberta drives, and crew lodging on multi-day builds are billed through at cost — no markup.
It holds up fine when it's tensioned right and the geometry is right. 450 GSM polyethylene is a mid-weight cover — lighter than the 600 to 750 GSM PVC that premium brands like Cover-Tech or commercial-grade Gold Mountain ship. Less reserve in the cover means tensioning and snow-shed angle do more of the work. Read what 750-gram PVC actually means for the spec contrast.
What we've seen in the field: a Can Industrial 30×60 in central Alberta tensioned correctly at install will get to year 8 or 9 before the cover wants replacing. A sloppy install with loose seams will start pooling snow at the eaves in year 2 and tear at the grommets in year 3 or 4. The cover itself is fair for the price. The install is what makes the difference.
UV degradation is the slow-burn issue. PE doesn't take direct sun as well as woven PVC over the long haul. South-facing eaves go first. We brief every Can Industrial customer at sign-off: plan on a re-cover somewhere between year 8 and year 12, depending on snow load and exposure. That's a re-cover, not a teardown — the frame goes another decade easily.
Same broad family as Hills Industrial, parts of the Suihe and Gold Mountain platforms, and a handful of other consumer-direct PE-cover sellers. Imported double-truss frames, mid-weight covers, sold consumer-direct, packaged into Canadian inventory.
If you're cross-shopping a 40×80 between Can Industrial and Hills Industrial, you are mostly comparing freight cost from Acton vs. their warehouse and lead time on the size you want. Build quality is in the same range; install time is in the same range; cover spec is in the same range.
If you want a heavier 600+ GSM PVC cover, welded mainframes instead of bolted, or P.Eng-stamped drawings for a permit-gated municipal build, this isn't the right brand. Start with our Cover-Tech or North Country page, or read our full fabric building brands compared guide.
A level, compacted, well-drained pad sized to the building's outside dimensions plus a foot of working room on every side. Compacted gravel is the standard; concrete piers or perimeter footings if your soil or permit calls for it.
Every box of the kit unpacked, labelled, and in one location near the pad — not still on the trailer when we arrive. A copy of the packing list and the kit schematic so we can run a parts check together before the frame goes up. A crew-vehicle path to the pad that isn't mud. And a working contact number while we're on site. The kit-buyer's checklist covers the full pre-install list, and what to expect on install day walks through the day itself.
Same flat rate by size, regardless of brand. Find your size, that's your price.
Written by Peter Huynh, owner-operator at Max Contractors. We've installed Can Industrial kits in Alberta and the Prairies since 2018; the notes above come from that field experience, not from the manufacturer's brochure.
Last updated: April 28, 2026
Can Industrial Supplies is an Acton, Ontario reseller that has been operating since 2006. They sell fabric storage shelters, fencing, shipping containers, and general industrial supplies. Their fabric building lineup runs from 20×30 single-truss bow-arch shelters up to 50×100 double-truss buildings, all wrapped in 450 GSM polyethylene fabric. Distribution is mostly Kijiji, dealer storefronts, and direct from canindustrial.com. They sell the kit. They do not send a crew.
Three different assemblies depending on the model. The single-truss dome is bow-arch carport style — fast, two crew can stand a 30×40 in a day and a half. The double-truss is bolted, not welded — heavier, more rigid, more time aligning end-walls. Container shelters mount to a pair of shipping containers and live or die on whether the customer's containers are parallel and square, which they almost never are out of the gate. Hardware ships imported and packed by piece-count, so we sort and inventory the whole shipment before we touch the frame.
Same crew rate that applies to every brand we install — pricing is by size, not by manufacturer. A 30×40 runs $6,888 on a prepared pad. A 40×80 runs $11,888. A 50×100 runs $14,888. The full table is on our homepage and on the installation costs guide. Installation covers full crew, frame assembly, fabric tensioning, doors, and anchoring to your prepared foundation. Equipment, travel beyond same-day Alberta drives, and crew lodging on multi-day builds are billed through at cost — no markup.
It holds up fine if it's tensioned correctly and the geometry is right. 450 GSM polyethylene is lighter than the 600–750 GSM PVC covers premium brands ship — it has less reserve. That puts more weight on installation. Loose PE pools snow and tears at the grommets before the panel itself fails. We've seen Can Industrial covers go year 8 or 9 in central Alberta when they were tensioned right out of the gate; we've also seen them fail in year 3 on a sloppy install with snow that should have shed. The cover is a fair budget cover. The install is what makes it last.
Same broad family as Hills Industrial, parts of the Suihe / Gold Mountain platform, and a handful of other consumer-direct PE-cover sellers. Frames are imported double-truss kits assembled into Canadian inventory. If you're cross-shopping between Can Industrial and Hills Industrial on a 40×80, you are mostly comparing freight cost and lead time, not building quality. If you want a heavier 600+ GSM PVC cover, double-truss with welded mainframes, or P.Eng-stamped drawings for a permitted municipal build, that is a different conversation — start with Cover-Tech, Gold Mountain commercial-grade, or North Country.
A level, compacted, well-drained pad sized to the building's outside dimensions plus a foot of working room on every side. Every box of the kit unpacked, labelled, and in one location — not still on the trailer. A crew-vehicle path to the pad that is not mud. A copy of the packing list and the kit schematic so we can run a parts check together before the frame goes up. And a contact number we can reach you on while we're on site. The kit-buyer's checklist on our blog covers the full pre-install list.