Ezpole
Telescoping and sectional flagpoles fabricated in Eastlake, Ohio, at the same address as the metal shop that builds them.
🏭 American Manufacturing
Our assessment
Company details
Where Ezpole products are made
Ezpole is a brand of T&D Fabricating, Inc., and both use 1489 East 363rd Street in Eastlake, Ohio. A flagpole brand that shares a street address with a fabricating shop is a different proposition from one that shares an address with a warehouse.
“100% American craftsmanship” appears against the Classic, Defender and Liberty flagpoles and the house and hitch mounts, and the Ezpole warranty page refers to “your American made flagpole.” Two independent surfaces on the company’s own site say the same thing about the same products.
Ezpole sells 103 flags marked 100% Made in the USA, and every one of them is a resold Annin, EDER or Valley Forge product. Those are genuine American flags made by genuine American manufacturers — just not by Ezpole. Counting them toward Ezpole’s claim would be the easiest and least honest way to make this profile look stronger.
The Federal Trade Commission reserves an unqualified Made in USA claim for goods that are all or virtually all of domestic origin. Ezpole makes a first-party American craftsmanship claim for its flagpoles and mounts, but its sectional kits and accessories carry no origin claim at all, and the US-made flags it sells are other manufacturers’ goods. This page therefore carries the American Manufacturing label, and the scope fact above names exactly which products the claim covers.
The story
Ezpole sells a specific solution to a specific annoyance: a flagpole that a homeowner can put up alone, take down alone, and adjust without a ladder. The telescoping design is the whole product, and the Classic, Defender and Liberty are variations on how heavy-duty a buyer wants it to be.
Behind the brand is T&D Fabricating, Inc. of Eastlake, Ohio, which is not a separate parent so much as the same business under its working name. That is why the flagpole claim is credible in a category where a great many “flagpole companies” are importers with a website.
Ezpole also sells flags, mounts, hardware and kits alongside the poles, which is normal for the category and is where its catalogue stops being its own manufacture.
Why they matter
Flags and flagpoles are the category where American-made claims are stretched hardest, because the symbolism does the selling and almost nobody checks the pole. Ezpole makes a narrow claim about the thing it actually fabricates.
The distinction this profile insists on — the poles are Ezpole’s, the flags are Annin’s and EDER’s and Valley Forge’s — is not a criticism of Ezpole. Reselling other American manufacturers’ flags is a good thing to do. It is simply not the same as making them.
One thing Ezpole could clear up: the “All American Series” sectional kits carry no origin statement anywhere on the site. A range with that name should either carry the claim or lose the name, and right now a buyer cannot tell which applies.
Shop Ezpole products
The Classic, Defender and Liberty telescoping flagpoles, house-mount and hitch-mount kits, sectional flagpole sets, and the flag and hardware accessories sold alongside them.
Ezpole questions
Are Ezpole flagpoles made in the USA?
Ezpole’s core telescoping flagpoles — the Classic, Defender and Liberty — carry “100% American craftsmanship” in the company’s own product data, as do its house and hitch mounts, and the warranty page calls them American made. The poles are fabricated in Eastlake, Ohio.
Are the flags Ezpole sells American made?
Many are, but they are not Ezpole’s manufacture. The 103 flags on the site marked 100% Made in the USA are made by Annin, EDER and Valley Forge and resold by Ezpole. This profile counts only what Ezpole itself makes.
What about the “All American Series” sectional flagpoles?
Despite the name, the All American Series sectional kits carry no origin claim anywhere on Ezpole’s site, and neither do the 39 accessories. Where the company makes no claim, this page makes none.
Who makes Ezpole flagpoles?
T&D Fabricating, Inc., at 1489 East 363rd Street in Eastlake, Ohio. Ezpole is the brand name; the fabricating company operates from the same address.