SlipIt
In 1939, an
average American guy saw the need for a lubricant to “unstick” his windows,
drawers, and doors in his Queens, NY apartment complex. That person, known as Uncle John, formulated
the first batch of what would later be known as SlipIt, right on his own
kitchen stove. He didn’t know it at the time, but John had just developed one
of the first modern, effective, nontoxic lubricants in America. With this
product, a new small business in America was born. Because of its general
lubricating properties, the number of uses for SlipIt grew rapidly, and in 1940, Otis
Elevator started using SlipIt’s sliding compound. They remain a steady customer to this
day.
Since then, SlipIt
has added many more loyal customers in the trucking, overhead door, and
woodworking industries, as well as a variety of other service businesses.
Customers include Otis Elevator, UPS, Norcold, San Diego Transit, US Space
Alliance Warehouse and local companies like Usheco.
In 1999,
Alan Vandebogart, was looking to help develop and grow a manufacturing business. With a long history of devoted users
but a need for additional growth, SlipIt was the perfect match. Alan joined the team, and
Alan states that because manufacturing businesses are being
asked more and more to name their distributors as “additional insured’s”, SlipIt
has increasingly been asked for such coverage. Ryan & Ryan
professionals like Kim Whelan handle these needs adeptly. SlipIt is then able to
add these additional insured’s and provide evidence of this coverage to their
distributors quickly. It’s reassuring to have an insurance agency like Ryan and
Ryan that is responsive to the changing needs of business.
