Bob Kleckauskas, an immigrant kid from Southside Chicago, is the Winner of the Lifetime Achievement Award at the Society of Engineers’ 2014 Blow Molding Conference. Bob started as a plant engineer in 1968 for Walgreen’s and was assigned the task of coming up for a solution for replacing glass shampoo bottles. At the time, glass bottles were very hard to come by and they could not keep up with production.
“At age 26, he bought three blow molding machines and two injection presses, hired the staff and began molding bottles for Walgreen’s private label products in 1970. Soon, plastics would take over. No more dancing around broken glass shampoo bottles in the shower.” – Bill Bregar, plasticsnews.com
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