30 years ago the C.A. Stacey (Stace to his friends) accidentally got involved in sports articles.

As a top ice-hockey league player he broke many ice-hockey sticks. Rumors were going around that the present ice-hockey stick factory was going to stop production. Out panic Stacey decided to make his own sticks as he already had a lot of experience with wood and fiberglass. His first stick is to date still in one piece and word got around and quiet unexpectedly three players visited his house on a Sunday morning and ordered three sticks and that’s how the Stacey ice-hockey stick factory got started. 

Later this merged into the present day field-hockey stick factory manufacturing his own brand of keeper masks and sticks with various high tech fibers. His competence quickly got around and Stacey was asked to produce high tech parts for racing cars, speedboats and airplanes. Special operation equipment for hospitals was an other range of Stacey's products. 

Due to the high quality of his ice-hockey masks (no break at all!) and sticks Stacey was approached by an Dutch field-hockey importer to modify his masks in a way making them suitable for the field-hockey market. Within a short space of time Stacey produced 940 masks of which not one broke. Once in connection with field-hockey Stacey decided to reinforce blanks for field-hockey with carbon, aramid and glassfiber too, as the process is similar to the reinforcement of ice-hockey sticks. The knowledge of successful tests with Dutch national team players went the rounds and several world-known companies let their top-sticks be produced by Stacey. 

1973 Stacey finally moved to the Netherlands and decided to produce sticks with his own name. Stacey uses his own fabrication systems and applies high-grade synthetic fibers for the reinforcement, which mostly only he is allowed to use as they are representing the state of art technology and are not freely available. Stacey, the new synonym for the highest quality on the hockey market.