CASES CATALOGUE 2008 - Peli Products - #24

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> PELI EMPLOYEES 46 > PELI HISTORY 47 What does it mean to be a Peli? It means you care. It means you look forward to your workday. It's quite an experience - knowing that you are a necessary part of a growing successful organisation. Where the plastic arrives in tanker loads of pellets and leaves as the best lights and cases the world has ever seen. And it means choosing such a company to be an important part of your career. People you want to talk to. Our highly trained Customer Service Department will go to any length to get you information. From product specs and tracking orders to opening new accounts, ask us a question, we guarantee an answer. You break it, we replace it... forever™. Our guarantee can't be stated more clearly than that. And we've been saying this for more than 30 years. If something isn't right with your case or torch, our Guarantee is on top of it. If it's beyond repair, you get a brand new one, just like that. Every product that leaves our hands is unconditionally guaranteed. Simple. Peli means quality and ISO proves it. You want a case or torch you can count on. Our job is to make it happen, and ISO Certification allows us to keep making it happen. All of our operators are quality conscious, striving for continued improvement and trained to scrap anything that is not 100% perfect. Using Six Sigma Methodology our world class Quality Assurance team is constantly looking for and eliminating any flaws in the process. The result: every case, every torch is tested before it ships and is backed by our legendary Unconditional Guarantee of Excellence. The Bottom Line. When you need a torch or case, you want the best. You need a Peli product. Everything you see in this catalogue is brought to you by Pelis, who not only build the best but also stand behind it. The Peli Story Peli Products came into existence as a direct result of founder Dave Parker’s desire to develop unique and practical products for the dive market. An avid diver since age 11 (after reading a June, 1954 issue of Popular Science magazine, which outlined how to build a crude S.C.U.B.A. device using a garden hose, a paint compressor, a power lawn mower engine and an enema bag), Dave has dived some of the most exotic spots in the world. Through his experience he discovered that certain things he needed to make a dive complete were simply not available. It dawned on him that “if I need something like this, I’ll bet all the other divers do, too!” It was from his old dirt floor garage that Peli Products was born, in the great American tradition on a shoe string budget. The Peli Float was its first product and patent. After a day’s work at his advertising and industrial design business, Dave and his wife and co-founder, Arline, a flight attendant for TWA, would spend evenings in their garage building floats. Dave handled the assembly side of the business. Arline boxed, billed and mailed everything out between her regularly scheduled flights. Dave’s homemade float was sold through mail order ads placed in magazines. It was soon apparent that Peli Products was not going to stay a garage operation for very long. From the birth of the Float, Peli has developed into a multiproduct, multi-industry company with a complete line of submersible and waterproof safety approved torches and equipment Protector™ cases. From a garage part time mail order operation, Peli has become a thriving ISO 9001:2000 certified, self-contained, fully operational moulding, manufacturing and design corporation with over 500 employees worldwide. In addition to the Torrance main office and manufacturing facility, we have offices in Spain, France, Germany, Australia, Japan, China and Canada and starting this year, Peli has manufacturing facilities in Germany. It is true that Peli and its product lines have grown a great deal over the past several years. Many things will continue to grow and change except this: Peli’s Commitment to Excellence and of course, our Legendary “You break it, we replace it forever™” Guarantee. Dave Parker, pictured with his on site Famous Peli Rare Car Collection, today is the Vice Chairman of Peli Products. PELITM You break it, we replace it... forever.™ ISO 9001 : 2000 Registered Company sira Certification Service Certificate nr. 000607 011