LOOP-LOC POOL PRODUCTS

LOOP-LOCs founder Bill Donaton co-invented safety swimming pool covers in 1957, after a business associate complained about finding small animals drowned in the waterlogged solid vinyl cover on his pool. The key, Bill envisioned, was to create a new type of pool cover that would allow water to drain through, rather than collect. The first mesh safety swimming pool covers were marketed in Connecticut in the fall of that year, and an industry was born. In 1978, Bill founded LOOP-LOC with five employees. Today, LOOP-LOC boasts a 200,000-square-foot headquarters in Hauppauge, New York, and 300 employees. Through its network of dealers, the company sells safety swimming pool covers on every continent on earth except Antarctica. Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, Bill continued to make safety improvements to LOOP-LOC covers. Most significant was LOOP-LOCs GAPGUARD and SAFEDGE, now known as CABLE-LOCTM Child Safety Intrusion Barriers, a plastic extrusion designed to close the gaps created whe...