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Article: Harper buys plant from Rubbermaid.(Harper Brush Works Incorporation)
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- Plastics News
- Article date:
- January 31, 2005
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Byline: Bill Bregar
Harper Brush Works Inc., a 105-year-old Iowa company still owned by the founding family, has purchased the old Empire Brushes factory in Greenville, N.C., from Newell Rubbermaid Inc. - bringing Harper its first in-house plastic injection molding.
Harper Brush manufactures wood brushes, brooms and other cleaning products at its headquarters plant in Fairfield, Iowa, and a second factory in Stockton, Calif.
President Barry Harper said his company also sells some housewares-type brushes that have plastic handles, but outsources the molding work to custom molders in the United States and other countries, including China, Brazil ...