File Rite Products

The Singer Sewing Machine Company built this factory in Elizabeth, New Jersey at the start of the Civil War, to make uniforms for the Union Army. This photo shows about historical location until being acquired and moving to California in 1997. On a cold January morning in 1975, 'Our Plastics' opened its doors on Bay 34th Street in Brooklyn, New Yor... k. It was only a small store front on a residential side street, in the Bensonhurst neighborhood, but the new entrepreneurs were convinced they could build a decent business by marketing a half-dozen styles of clear plastic photo album pages and medical film mounts. Later that first year, Film Holders Ltd. was formed to focus on designing, manufacturing and distributing, plastic filing and organizing products to the medical marketplace. Soon, in a new building with our first machines, the product line grew from six to sixty and kept on going. By the end of the seventies, Film Holders was 'the source' for just about every important OEM and distributor across North America supplying film and filing accessories to the medical community. The eighties were tumultuous and exciting a merger with Anglers Company, Ltd of Flushing, NY, then a leader in plastic products for the stationery markets a debilitating partner break-up that followed the acquisition of a manufacturing facility in Elizabeth, NJ and finally another name change. File Rite Products, Inc. was a better reflection of the expanded product line. The company was now making and importing specialty plastic filing and organizing items for OEMs, wholesalers and distributors across many markets. Private labeling our products for many industry brand names, became an important part of our business. The first half of the nineties saw solid and steady growth for our business. In December of 1996, on the day after Christmas, 20th Century Plastics, Inc. of Brea, CA, purchased all of the assets of File Rite. By the end of February 1997, all of our machinery, and a handful of key people were now in Southern California. My ...Read More