Friday, January 25, 2013

DAVID LIPNIARSKI: 20 YEARS AT CONFER PLASTICS


Dave in 1998


Confer Plastics has a new member – the 26th – of the coveted Twenty Year Club.

Its newest addition is our design & process engineer -- Dave Lipniarski (the photo at left is from early 1998).

Dave has been working for CPI continuously since 1996 and had also spent a few years during the mid-1980s working for the company at our old site on East Avenue. Between stints he worked for Westwood Pharmaceuticals (a division of Bristol-Myers Squibb).

Dave has one of the keenest -- and fastest -- design minds around and he has helped make dozens of our customers’ ideas a reality, taking a thought or a line drawing from them and transforming it into a blow-molded product. He has also been instrumental in making the consumer price driven change in how we mold swimming pool ladders, taking them from a series of molds run in multiple machines to one multi-cavity mold needing just one machine.

Since 1998 Dave has been awarded 11 patents from the federal government and these inventions can be seen in everything from the gravity hinge on our gates to a circular interconnect to the rotatable legs concept used on crowd control barriers to the male/female locking system used on all of our Leisure Accents products and spa steps.

Google – David Lipniarski patents – and you can see his variety of designs!