Martin Scholler

‘ Innovations ‘

Born January 7th 1933 in Salzburg Austria.

Completed an apprenticeship in electro plating. Completed a 3 year program involving electro techniques, analytical chemistry, metal coloring and business management.

Started a plating plant in Salzburg Austria. 

Immigrated to Canada in 1951.

Firsts in industry:

Developed a razor blade coloring process (gold blades / blue blades) and a printing process for these blades for Maka Werke razor blade factory in Salzburg Austria.

Developed chrome / nickel plated aluminum housings for Fuchs Motor Company.

Immigrated to Canada in 1951. Worked for Stowell Screw Company. Installed a new automatic barrel plating system for plating their metal screws with chrome / cadmium / nickel / zinc etc.

Licensed aluminum plating method to Montreal Electro Platters - allowing them to use their standard electro plating systems and machinery to electro plate aluminum.

When Joseph Robb a well known Montreal rubber products manufacturer was unable to make corrugated rubber hoses for a line of demand regulators for divers, Scholler was making his own compression molded presses at a cost of $ 45.- Each and made his own rubber products.

Invented a new stretching process that allows hundreds of fine teflon coated heat resistant wires used in armored car cable assemblies, (wire harnesses) to be encapsulated in a high heat resistant rubber tube without damaging the wires in the insertion process.

Developed production machinery that automatically removed corrugated rubber hoses from the mandrel core. When long established rubber manufacturers did not know how to accomplish this.

Developed production methods to make full size seamless molded rubber diving suits - when competitors' diving suits made from sheet rubber and glued together fell apart in the sun.

Made the first fiberglass demand regulators for divers and a used an ultra fast compression molding method producing these air demand regulators at a rate of less then one per minute.

Developed breathing plastic insoles for the Canadian and European armed forces. (Department of National Defense)

First in Canada:

Injection molded rubber products. When Japanese competitors cut prices for a molded rubber product by 66% Scholler was the first Canadian to use injection molding methods for thermoplastic elastomers allowing cycle times to be reduced from the usual 15 minutes to just seconds.

Injection molded traffic cones - when others used slush molding / dip molding / rotational molding processes that took 15 - 30 minutes to make one cone - Scholler injection molded traffic cones with cycle times of one per minute.

Hand skate sharpeners - made two models of patented hand skate sharpeners that allows skaters to sharpen their own skates.

Skate guards - dissatisfied with the poor quality and high price of compression molded rubber skate guards. Made injection molded skate guards much faster, much better looking (leather grain finish / in all colors not only black and white) and sold them at a fraction the cost of all others - eliminated all competition.

High heat fragrances - that make plastics and rubber smell for years and give off the fragrance of ones choice. Over 100 standard fragrances are available. Used to make urinal screens and floor tiles for animal use / advertising specialties etc.

Scholler was guest speaker at the Ottawa licensing seminar with David French llc. Of Ottawa / Larry Evans manager of patents standard oil of Ohio - Guy Houle partner of the Montreal firm Swabey Mitchell Houle - Robert Goldscheider attorney - author and consultant in the field of licensing and Richard Gareau president of the International Licensing Corporation of Montreal.

Bio degrading diapers made from wood flour, cornstarch and cotton. Developed production methods for this 100% bio-degrading diaper for Andre Bachard, Major of the city of Asbestos.

Golf tees that dissolve in water (two hours in water and the golf tees disappear.) Injection molded from 100% corn starch, these tees feel and look like wood tees but dissolve and disappear in water.

30,000 lb. giant tactic polypropylene blocks - when Hercules, a major polypropylene producer in Varenne Que. Canada had 300,000 lbs. of tactic polypropylene in the form of 3 ft x 8 ft x 20 ft blocks, (dumpster load) to dispose of and had already dumped 1,200 of these 30,000 lb. blocks at the Miron dump site in Montreal - Scholler found a client in Italy for this material and a way to cut these 30,000 lb. blocks into small 40 lb. pieces for shipment to the Italian customer.

Traffic cones made much faster and for much less:

Using recycled rubber / plastic / blends for the base part of traffic cones, (90% of the weight of a traffic cone it in its base) plus a much faster production technology allows production of a 10 lb. traffic cone for only $ 3.- . So far all established Canadian and U.S. traffic cone makers have not used the technology as they are stuck with obsolete machinery and production methods.

Rubber crumb used in floor tiles:

Scholler came up with a solution to use up to 40% of tire crumb and other recycled plastic blends in flooring products and traffic cone bases for Viceroy Rubber in Toronto Canada - who obtained an 8 million dollar development grant from the Ontario government to develop products made from scrap tires.

Injection molded suction cups:

Allcock Laight and Westwood, a Toronto based manufacturer of car top carriers needed 500,000 suction cups. Scholler, using injection molding methods and recycled PVC / rubber blends made these in a 15 second cycle time and eliminated the competition with a far better product at a much lower cost. Besides a much lower price the competitors suction cup showed surface cracking within 6 months - Scholler's suction cups outperformed and outlasted all others.

Pantsaver car mat & First Choice car mat:

Scholler was the first in making car mats by injection molding thus reducing cycle time to less than one minute rather than the usual 5 to 10 minute cycle times common of other rubber makers. 400,000 of these sold yearly. Now newer even faster production methods are available reducing cycle time and production cost even more.

Loc Tile interlocking flooring:

This award winning patented floor tile interlocks watertight into each other. Does not come apart and is reversible. Also called Reverse a Tile.

Thermo Tile:

Thermotile(s) consist of a series of tubes that interlock (patented) and are made into the shape of a roof / siding / wall / floor tile. Production cost is less than others pay only for the material. This is achieved by the use of a much faster production technology and a much lower material cost - using recycled rubber / plastics / blends.

Thermotile can also be used for floor heating for more comfort and energy savings of up to 30%.

Thermotile can also be used for refrigeration including: skating arenas and refrigerated van compartments, etc.

Tubular playground safety floors:

Patented tubular tiles absorb more shock than crumb rubber tiles and cost much less to make (tubes are hollow and use less material) they also have no rebound. A 16 lb. bowling ball jumped 5 feet away when dropped on a 4-inch crumb rubber playground safety tile. The bowling ball barely rebounded when dropped on our tubular hand made floor tiles, had the same or better shock absorption than crumb rubber tiles and cost a fraction of crumb rubber products.

Making quality consumer products from scrap boots - cables - old tires etc. Why pay full price for raw material when you can get scrap material that can be turned into new / value added products for much less?

Daylight reflecting and phosphorus (night glowing) commercial products - sold as sporting goods / advertising specialties etc.

Safety visor system developed for the IRSST (Institute de Recherche en Sante et en Security du Travail du Quebec) turning a complicated and difficult to make product simple and easy to use and produce.

Electroformed molds using original wood carvings or leather products. A electro forming process that makes it possible to copy the most minute details of the original by depositing hard nickel on the surface of the originals.

Hand carved looking furniture panels - that look identical to the original wood carvings have been made by the electroforming process for furniture makers like Kilgour Furniture and Carol Anne Furniture.

New developments:

Leather belts - that look like the most expensive original leather belt -

Belts that smell like leather for years / feel and look like leather and can be produced at a rate of 4 or more per minute fully automatically with 2 different leather grains on both sides of the belt - production cost? In the 50 cents range for a 42-inch long belt.

Solid tires:

Using tire crumb available for 15 cents per lb. or less and 6 % sulfur available for 25 cents / lb. Schollers much faster production technology reduces cycle times on single cavity moulds to 10 seconds (much less when using multi cavity moulds) or a combination of both - low material cost and extremely fast production time will eliminate all competition. Same process can be used to make delineator bases / mud flaps and the millions of wheels used on lawn mowers / shopping carts / trash containers etc.

Traffic cones -

Made at a rate of one or more a minute (when it takes others ten times longer) and the use of recycled rubber / plastics / blends that cost little or nothing for the bottom part of the cone where 90 % of the weight is - a 10 lb. traffic cone can be made for can $ 4.50 or U.S. $ 3.- at today's exchange rate which is 1/3 rd of what other manufacturers pay only for the raw materials.

Crests - miniatures and other products that make you invisible to insects!

High heat fragrances allow plastics and rubber to release fragrances (citronella and other compounds) that make a person invisible to bugs.

Modular - interlocking - hydroponics - molded containers / decks / floors that supply aeration - nutrients, made with multiple conduits all in one operation and at no extra cost.

Scholler can help you - as a consultant - or as a partner in the production and marketing of products where he will also invest his own funds in the production and marketing of new or existing products that need to have a great price advantage as well as value added features.

Contact Martin Scholler by  Tel / Fax / e-mail:

Martin Scholler Pres. % Atlas Polytech Inc. / Groupe Rhino Inc.

400 Marie Victorin Boucherville. Que. Canada. J4B 1W2

Tel: 450-449-4041 fax 450-449-7454