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C-Plex, Inc., Owner, Lexington, SC, 1997-2022

My father-in-law had started a plastics company to make little acrylic frames and key chains for school fundraisers. That was all good until he began to grow to the point he needed to start getting CNC equipment. He started bugging me to come to C-Plex as part owner after he had a heart attack. Finally, my wife and I decided to take him up on the offer, so we moved from Greenville back to Lexington (home). Right away we purchased 2 CNC routers, a CNC mill, a vacuum former, and a CNC lathe. We landed a big customer that enabled C-Plex to grow quickly. I brought in my brother-in-law (who was a machinist trained in the navy) in 2000, and he and I bought out my father-in-law in 2003. We ran and grew the company until 2022 when we decided to sell and retire.

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Re: I hope the big customer wasn't Clemson...

Feb 20, 2024, 8:36 AM [ in reply to I hope the big customer wasn't Clemson... ]

Do you remember the television show ER (with George Clooney and others)? On that show the doctors and nurses use these roll around computer stations. We did all of the plastic on those stations for a company in real life. Hospitals all over the country were using them for a few years. Some of these stations were donated to the TV show ER for them to use... publicity.
Another thing we made, that I think is the coolest, is the F-16 ejector seat used on the 1st Iron Man movie. When Iron Man collides with USA F-16, the pilot has to eject. His parachute won't deploy and Iron Man flies in and deploys it manually. You can see the ejector seat we made on that scene.
Also when AT&T changed their logo back around 2003, we made all of the initial prototypes which were shown on TV all over the world.
There were a few other things we made which were visible to the public (like the Nations Bank logos and the SunTrust Bank logos which were on all of their signage), but most things we make are not seen by the general public.