Clover Box and Manufacturing Company
The Clover Box and Manufacturing Company was founded in the Bronx, New York in 1918. By the early 1940s the firm was involved in plastics production, fabricating Plexiglas windshields for military aircraft during World War II. After the war, the company’s owner Monroe L. Dinell sought new projects to increase the firm’s revenue and continued experimenting with the use of vacuum pressure in the shaping of plastic objects. Vacuum-forming eliminated the need for molds and represented an innovation in the manufacture of mass-produced plastic products. In 1953, the company relocated to East Norwalk, Connecticut and was renamed Clover Plastic Contours, Inc., a processor and manufacturer of plastics for... more.