lehighvalleyhigh.com:
Tom Sulick Jr. said he has always been creative, but it wasn’t until after some unfortunate circumstances that he put that creativity to work.
Sulick, 49, of Phillipsburg, lost his job about five years ago when his employer, FiberMark Inc., closed its Holland Township operation. He took the opportunity to learn a new trade at Warren County Community College by enrolling as a business management and marketing major.
Then one day, during a particularly messy painting job in summer 2006, he devised a cleaner way to do the job. A Tupperware prototype for the Paint Crown, which balances a brush on top of the can without letting it drip or dry out, was born.
Sulick has no intention of letting the Paint Crown be his last creation. He has thought of at least four other ideas as he awaits more investors before manufacturing the Paint Crown.
For anyone else sitting on a good idea of their own, Sulick encourages them to “go for it.”
Photo by basykes.