This is a misprint. We discontinued our line of gazebos and pavilions in the Fall of 2008.
We are sorry for any confusion.
Thursday, May 28, 2009
POOL & SPA NEWS MISPRINT
The May 29th, 2009 edition of Pool & Spa News featured a section on pool and spa enclosures. Among the items that they highlighted....
Friday, April 24, 2009
NATIONAL HARDWARE SHOW: MAY 5 - 7
Stop by our booth and visit Confer Plastics at the National Hardware Show, May 5 - 7 in Las Vegas, Nevada. We can be found in the Lawn, Garden, and Outdoor Living section at booth number 12257.On display will be the complete line of Leisure Accents furniture: bistro tables, pinic tables, bars and more.
For more information about the show, visit:
http://www.nationalhardwareshow.com/
We look forward to seeing you!
Wednesday, April 15, 2009
CPI HAVING PHONE/E-MAIL PROBLEMS
If you've had a difficult time calling and e-mailing Confer Plastics on Wednesday, April 15th, you are not alone. The phone lines and internet connections have been down most of the day -- as they have throughout the area -- due to an operational issue at the local Verizon center. This MAY continue into Thursday, but Verizon is hoping to have the problem rectified soon.
Tuesday, March 31, 2009
THE 7200 LADDER: ONE OF 2009'S TOP NEW PRODUCTS
Our #7200 ladder -- with its patented roll-guard safety feature -- was selected as one of Pool & Spa News’ Top 50 Products of 2009. It will be highlighted in their May 15th issue.If you are a pool/spa dealer or distributor interested in adding this swimming pool ladder to your products offered, please contact us at:
plastics@conferplastics.com
Thursday, March 26, 2009
CONFER LADDERS & STEPS MEET CODE
A few of our competitors manufacture swimming pool ladders and steps that are not code-compliant.
Confer Plastics' products, on the other hand, do meet code.
Confer Plastics' products, on the other hand, do meet code.
Our self-closing, self-latching gate, when properly installed on the following products, will satisfy most building inspector requirements: Double Pool Entry System with gate, Step-Enclosure System with gate, and SIG System.
Our current models of A-frame ladders and Inpool (Deck) ladders all meet the current ANSI/APSP standards.
But, be aware that the above statements are no guarantee that a local building inspector will not impose additional requirements on the homeowner.
Our current models of A-frame ladders and Inpool (Deck) ladders all meet the current ANSI/APSP standards.
But, be aware that the above statements are no guarantee that a local building inspector will not impose additional requirements on the homeowner.
LEADERSHIP NIAGARA TOURS CONFER PLASTICS
28 members of this year's Leadership Niagara class toured Confer Plastics on March 19th as a part of their Small Business Day. The participants were able to walk the factory floor and see products being made.
Leadership Niagara is a year-long leadership training program for adults who represent a cross section of Niagara County; including business, labor, education, the arts, religion, government, community based organizations, ethnic and minority groups.They meet for daylong sessions held each month addressing diverse, local needs. LN focuses on helping participants to enhance their understanding and recognition of what our community lacks to become a better place to live and work, followed by becoming involved and making it happen. The program provides opportunities for participants to develop their own personal leadership styles and networking opportunities.
If your community organization would like to tour our factory send an e-mail to Bob Confer at bob@conferplastics.com
Leadership Niagara is a year-long leadership training program for adults who represent a cross section of Niagara County; including business, labor, education, the arts, religion, government, community based organizations, ethnic and minority groups.They meet for daylong sessions held each month addressing diverse, local needs. LN focuses on helping participants to enhance their understanding and recognition of what our community lacks to become a better place to live and work, followed by becoming involved and making it happen. The program provides opportunities for participants to develop their own personal leadership styles and networking opportunities.
If your community organization would like to tour our factory send an e-mail to Bob Confer at bob@conferplastics.com
Tuesday, January 27, 2009
BUY AMERICAN!
When you're buying Confer Plastics products you can rest assured that all of our products are blow-molded right here in the good ol' US of A. You can't say that about our competitors' products...many of their spa steps and swimming pool ladders/setps are made in China.
With American-made goods you get quality, service, and safety...and you keep your fellow Americans employed, truly stimulating our economy. You can't say that about Asian-made goods.
CPI's vice-president, Bob Confer, is a columnist for the Greater Niagara Newspapers. In this week's column he wrote about the importance of buying American. Here it is...
BUY AMERICAN, BUY LOCAL
By Bob Confer
The American Experience is defined by our unprecedented combination of brain and brawn. Our predecessors, dreaming dreams of Manifest Destiny, tamed a wild land, giving up blood, sweat, and even their lives to make a better world for their children and their children’s children. From those seeds of the American Dream, great metropolises sprung up like forests of concrete and steel, fitted with impressive architecture and ever-evolving factories that gave housing and goods to our burgeoning population. Those modern marvels and what they wrought have continued to develop over the years, and, without a doubt, they have made America the most powerful economic engine that the world has ever seen.
The path that got us to that level, one that took our nation from nothing to everything, was paved by ingenuity and work ethic that was without peer. The infrastructure, technology, science and products that provided the riches of the past and present were once but thoughts, fully developed and ultimately realized by some of the keenest minds ever, made real by some of the hardest-working hands and backs ever. America was made - and it is made - by Americans.
It is important that we never forget that. But, now, it must take on an even-greater meaning.
Our economy is in tatters with consumer confidence at record lows and the stock markets a daily roller coaster of misery. Millions of workers have lost their jobs in recent months. Many more live in fear that they, too, might become jobless this year or next.
How do we stave off this recessionary monster and the economic and mental depression that comes with it? How do we reignite the fire within our markets? How do we keep people employed and give them the confidence to buy?
Those questions have been asked time and time again for almost a half year now. Businessmen, civic leaders, and regular folk alike, all deeply affected by this tragedy, want answers, answers that will pan out in the end and put America on the fast-track to recovery. They’ve all thrown around ideas, imposing some while debating many, concepts from bailouts to rebates to nationalization to stimulus packages.
They’re all wrong. The economy doesn’t start with Uncle Sam. It begins at home. It’s we as consumers in a free marketplace who save, invest, and spend our money on products and services.
Realize, though, that it begins at home in more ways than one. The very best stimulus that our economy could ever have is from our consumers focusing on buying American and buying local. That is what made our country great and that’s what will bring us out of our supposed demise. It was Americans building and selling things to Americans that created our prosperity and the quality of life we have appreciated. History proves that.
We’ve lost sight of that importance. In days gone by we did not rely on foreign production as we do now. Historically, we never had trade deficits that were not in our favor. We did not toss away American workers and decent products for inferior, foreign-made goods to save a few dollars here and there. We did not buy our products in cold, multinational department stores. No, in the past, we as a people made what we bought, and we bought those goods in stores owned and run by our neighbors. We looked out for one another by basing our buying decisions on pride of workmanship, quality, and Country.
We need to get back to those roots. We must frequent the mom and pop stores, the locally-owned franchises and roadside stands, putting the global corporate conglomerates at a distant second. We must analyze the labels of everything we buy from them, from food to clothes to durables to cars, ensuring that they were made on America soil by American hands and American minds.
As buyers become tighter with their dollars and buy less of many yet more of quality they’ll find that American products will make the best investment of their spending dollar, not only in terms of a better-made product, but also to the bigger picture of investing in our national well-being. It is such a simple and effective stimulant: if we buy goods that are made in America we employ American workers, managers, designers and farmers all who extract American resources and turn them into the goods we need and want. So, please buy what they make, keep money in America and ensure that they - our friends, families, and fellow citizens – are all gainfully employed. The payback of buying patriotically is an economic, emotional, and national victory.
With American-made goods you get quality, service, and safety...and you keep your fellow Americans employed, truly stimulating our economy. You can't say that about Asian-made goods.
CPI's vice-president, Bob Confer, is a columnist for the Greater Niagara Newspapers. In this week's column he wrote about the importance of buying American. Here it is...
BUY AMERICAN, BUY LOCAL
By Bob Confer
The American Experience is defined by our unprecedented combination of brain and brawn. Our predecessors, dreaming dreams of Manifest Destiny, tamed a wild land, giving up blood, sweat, and even their lives to make a better world for their children and their children’s children. From those seeds of the American Dream, great metropolises sprung up like forests of concrete and steel, fitted with impressive architecture and ever-evolving factories that gave housing and goods to our burgeoning population. Those modern marvels and what they wrought have continued to develop over the years, and, without a doubt, they have made America the most powerful economic engine that the world has ever seen.
The path that got us to that level, one that took our nation from nothing to everything, was paved by ingenuity and work ethic that was without peer. The infrastructure, technology, science and products that provided the riches of the past and present were once but thoughts, fully developed and ultimately realized by some of the keenest minds ever, made real by some of the hardest-working hands and backs ever. America was made - and it is made - by Americans.
It is important that we never forget that. But, now, it must take on an even-greater meaning.
Our economy is in tatters with consumer confidence at record lows and the stock markets a daily roller coaster of misery. Millions of workers have lost their jobs in recent months. Many more live in fear that they, too, might become jobless this year or next.
How do we stave off this recessionary monster and the economic and mental depression that comes with it? How do we reignite the fire within our markets? How do we keep people employed and give them the confidence to buy?
Those questions have been asked time and time again for almost a half year now. Businessmen, civic leaders, and regular folk alike, all deeply affected by this tragedy, want answers, answers that will pan out in the end and put America on the fast-track to recovery. They’ve all thrown around ideas, imposing some while debating many, concepts from bailouts to rebates to nationalization to stimulus packages.
They’re all wrong. The economy doesn’t start with Uncle Sam. It begins at home. It’s we as consumers in a free marketplace who save, invest, and spend our money on products and services.
Realize, though, that it begins at home in more ways than one. The very best stimulus that our economy could ever have is from our consumers focusing on buying American and buying local. That is what made our country great and that’s what will bring us out of our supposed demise. It was Americans building and selling things to Americans that created our prosperity and the quality of life we have appreciated. History proves that.
We’ve lost sight of that importance. In days gone by we did not rely on foreign production as we do now. Historically, we never had trade deficits that were not in our favor. We did not toss away American workers and decent products for inferior, foreign-made goods to save a few dollars here and there. We did not buy our products in cold, multinational department stores. No, in the past, we as a people made what we bought, and we bought those goods in stores owned and run by our neighbors. We looked out for one another by basing our buying decisions on pride of workmanship, quality, and Country.
We need to get back to those roots. We must frequent the mom and pop stores, the locally-owned franchises and roadside stands, putting the global corporate conglomerates at a distant second. We must analyze the labels of everything we buy from them, from food to clothes to durables to cars, ensuring that they were made on America soil by American hands and American minds.
As buyers become tighter with their dollars and buy less of many yet more of quality they’ll find that American products will make the best investment of their spending dollar, not only in terms of a better-made product, but also to the bigger picture of investing in our national well-being. It is such a simple and effective stimulant: if we buy goods that are made in America we employ American workers, managers, designers and farmers all who extract American resources and turn them into the goods we need and want. So, please buy what they make, keep money in America and ensure that they - our friends, families, and fellow citizens – are all gainfully employed. The payback of buying patriotically is an economic, emotional, and national victory.
Wednesday, January 21, 2009
CPI TO ATTEND ATLANTIC CITY SHOW
Confer Plastics will be at the NESPA Atlantic City Show, to be held January 27 & 28 (noon to 6pm) and the 29th (10am – 2pm).
Stop by and visit us at booth # is 3127. We will be featuring our new #7200 Roll-Guard A-frame ladder and displaying our SIG Step/Inpool/Gate system as well as our Leisure Accents Spa and Patio products.
We look forward to seeing you.
Stop by and visit us at booth # is 3127. We will be featuring our new #7200 Roll-Guard A-frame ladder and displaying our SIG Step/Inpool/Gate system as well as our Leisure Accents Spa and Patio products.
We look forward to seeing you.
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