ANTHONY CONIGLIARO, Vice President of Engineering, graduated from Boston University in 1960 with a Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering Management. As a young engineer, he assisted in the development of products and processes at Gillette Company, Bradford Novelty, Advent Corporation.

As Vice President of Engineering at Armatron International, Mr. Conigliaro personally developed many consumer oriented lawn and garden products, including log splitters and leaf eaters. During his time at Armatron, Mr. Conigliaro traveled extensively to the Far East, the Caribbean, and Europe to source tools and products in Korea, China, Hong Kong, Trinidad, Germany, and Portugal.

During his almost 40 years of work as a hands-on development engineer, he developed and patented many products/processes and he is the holder of several U.S. Patents.

At Conigliaro Industries, Mr. Conigliaro has developed many products from concept and prototype, to development, manufacture, and marketing. His first product was PolyCorn, a packaging peanut made from 100% recycled polystyrene, polyethylene, and/or polypropylene foam scrap. Next, seeking to help our firm solve the Mixed #3-#7 plastics problem across New England, he developed Boston’s Best Patch, a cold patch pot hole filler made from 80% recycled mixed plastics. Most recently, Mr. Conigliaro developed the formula and production process to manufacture Plas-Crete blocks, concrete retaining wall blocks made from 50% Mixed #3-#7 plastics. All of these products have enjoyed success in the marketplace while providing a viable high volume use for several difficult waste streams.

As our chief engineer, Mr. Conigliaro is also responsible for operating our Can It Be Recycled? Program and laboratory. In this capacity, he receives hundreds of solid waste samples each year from across the country and determines their recyclability through a series of lab and trial and error tests.

Now, with all three of these products successfully being manufactured and sold across New England, Mr. Conigliaro has focused his efforts on our newest project—the development and startup of a full scale Mattress Shredding and Reclamation Plant. Once fully operational, this plant will be capable of processing up to 143,000 mattresses and box springs each year, solving yet another difficult waste challenge. Like Boston’s Best Patch and Plas-Crete Blocks, this project was funded in part by the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection. All of these unique processes are helping to move the state one step closer to their goal of a 70% recycling rate by 2010.

Mr. Conigliaro is without a doubt the creative genius behind most of the innovative ideas and processes developed here at Conigliaro Industries.

Tony can be reached by email at tony@conigliaro.com or by phone at (508) 872-9668.