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Continental Southern Industries - Greenville, South Carolina
Continental Southern Industries, or CSI, was founded by textile entrepreneur Elmer Goodwin in Greenville, South Carolina in 1970. Goodwin chose a name as "big" as his vision for the company: to grow Continental Southern Industries into a top supplier of vulcanized fiber parts to the textile industry. CSI’s reputation for quality and reliability quickly grew, as well as its ability and willingness to meet each mill’s specific requirements.
To keep up with the latest advancements in technology, CSI switched to rotational molding in the 1980’s. As CSI’s textile client base continued to grow, the company began blow molding in 1988 in order to improve both production capacity and product quality. CSI’s move into blow molding would prove to open doors to new markets beyond the textile industry.
Once CSI achieved competency in blow molding, we asked ourselves, ‘What else can we blow mold?" CSI found its opportunity in the waste management industry and introduced a double wall plastic container lid in 1994.
Extremely durable and priced right, CSI’s double wall lid quickly became an industry bestseller. Today CSI has emerged as one of the leading producers of double wall lids in the nation, manufacturing nearly a quarter of a million lids a year. Soon CSI began producing heavy duty plastic truck fenders, which were also tough enough to take the daily wear and tear of the waste management industry.
In 2003, CSI introduced a single wall lid to fill a void in the market for a quality blow-molded lid. With the lid market equally divided between double wall and single wall fans, CSI now has a lid to please everybody. Made from a better grade of plastic and blow-molded for consistent quality, CSI’s new single wall lid features a tough, yet extremely flexible design that is destined to outsell and outperform the competition.
To maintain its production edge, CSI has invested over $5 million in the last few years in the latest in blow molding technology. "Anyone who visits CSI and knows anything about blow molding is usually impressed with the sophistication and number of our machines, " comments Rob McGowan, CEO of CSI.
In fact, word of CSI’s unrivaled production capabilities has quickly spread. Before you could say "How big do you want it?," the company found itself accepting contracts in custom blow molding––specializing in high volume jobs requiring large parts.
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