CONFER PLASTICS TURNS 36!!

Confer Plastics, Inc. celebrates its 36th anniversary on January 22nd.

Confer Plastics was founded in 1973 by the late Ray Confer and his son Doug. The company invented the first plastic swimming pool ladder back in the 70’s. The company continues to manufacture pool ladders and steps and, about 10 years ago, Confer Plastics delved into the spa industry, manufacturing a line of spa steps, spa pads, gazebos, and patio furniture.

Bob Confer, the third-generation vice-president of Confer Plastics, says, "36 years is a remarkable achievement, especially in this day and age of global economies and an ever-changing business climate. What makes it even more special is the fact that we’re still making everything right here in the US. All this success couldn’t be achieved were it not for some really great customers and coworkers."

Confer Plastics also manufactures custom OEM goods, ranging from items as small as toner bottles to as large as kayaks. The company employs 110 people in its two facilities in the Niagara Falls, NY area.

More information about the company can be found at www.conferplastics.com

CONFER PLASTICS IS NOT HIRING

With the economy like it is, many folks who are now unemployed have recently stopped-by or called the factory looking for a job.

Unfortunately, we cannot help any job seekers. There are enough unknowns in the economy that we are keeping our employment levels where they are and we're instituting a hiring freeze for 2009.

Good luck in your job-seeking endeavors.

BLAST FROM THE PAST: THE COL. SANDERS PIGGY BANK

Once a month on this blog we’ll look at a product that was manufactured by Confer Plastics, Inc. in days gone by. For our initial installment we’ll look at the Colonel Sanders piggy bank.

We manufactured this product in 1977 and 1978 for the Margardt Corporation which was run by the Colonel’s daughter, Margaret Sanders. Known as his “Spicy Daughter”, Ms. Sanders, who once went searching for the lost city of Atlantis, toured our facility which at the time was housed at the end of the Roblin Steel complex.

The piggy bank was available in three different colors: red, yellow, and white and it was the classic Colonel pose…bespectacled, cane in hand, holding a bucket of KFC. It stands about 8” high and has a coin slot in the bank.

The banks were distributed as giveaways at Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurants throughout the United States. Over the life of the project we made tens of thousands of these banks. Many of them can now be found as collector’s items on EBay, selling in the $5 to $12 range.

THE ROLL-GUARD IN ACTION

Many people are interested in seeing how the ingenious Roll-Guard feature works on our new 7200 ladder. Here's a video of Bruce Neubauer demonstrating this impressive safety device....

HOLIDAY HOURS

Looking ahead at the end-of-year holidays, Confer Plastics will be closed these days...

Christmas: Closed Wednesday, December 24th through Sunday, December 28th

New Year's: Closed Wednesday, December 31st through Sunday, January 4th

CPI LOOKING FOR SALES REPS

Confer Plastics is always looking for sales representatives for our custom molding operations, both nationally and abroad.

Our agreements are simple: there are no exclusive regional rights for the reps (it's a free market in custom manufacturing) and Confer will handle the collections and all customer relations. It's easy: find us a job and we'll pay you a commission for the entire lifetime of that product at our company.

CLOSED FOR THANKSGIVING

Confer Plastics will be closed Thursday, November 27 through Sunday, November 30 in observance of the Thanksgiving holiday. Regular hours will resume on Monday, December 1 at 7:00 AM.

May you and your families have a great holiday!

CPI'S NEWEST PATENT

Title: “Traffic barricade having interchangeable parts”
No.: 7,448,824
Inventors: Lipniarski, David J. (North Tonawanda)
Assignee: Confer Plastics (North Tonawanda)
Date issued: Nov. 11, 2008

Abstract: The present invention is directed to traffic barricade having interchangeable base members and upright members that interconnect to each other. The base member and upright member are identical which allows the base member and the upright member to be interchanged together.

For more information visit this link:

http://www.patentstorm.us/patents/7448824.html