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Over 20 years ago
Jack Kulp and his wife Sue, co-founded TrafFix Devices Inc.,
headquartered in San Clemente, California. TrafFix Devices manufactures
and distributes highway safety products for the traffic control
and transportation industry.
In 1987 Jack & Sue started the TrafFix Devices with a handful
of products, working out of their home. Within a year they hired
Walter Kuczera, to handle sales and marketing for the Eastern
half of the country, which left Jack to tackle the West and
Sue to manage the office. In 1989 Brent Kulp joined the family
business taking over as Western Region Sales Manager, allowing
Jack more time to develop new products and run the business
side of the business.
TrafFix has since grown to 150 employees, dispersed throughout
the country from the corporate offices in San Clemente,
to plants in Fairfield, Iowa, Adelanto, California, and Tijuana,
Mexico, producing over 100 traffic control products. TrafFix
Devices is one of the largest producers of road safety products
in the world with most of TrafFix products continuing
to be manufactured in the United States.
Products include plastic channelizer drums, portable sign stands
and roll-up signs, plastic barricades, cones and tubular delineators,
water filled barriers and crash attenuators to name a few. Every
TrafFix product meets the Federal Highway National Cooperative
Highway Research Project standard, NCHRP 350.
By staying on the cutting edge of product innovation, TrafFix
leads the industry by continuing bring new and improved products
to market.
TrafFix Devices products are sold to barricade rental yards,
traffic control companies, highway contractors, state departments
of transportation, military and utility companies; as well as
cities and counties all over the United States, Canada, China,
Australia, New Zealand, Sweden, Europe and the Middle East.
TrafFix has 6 Regional Sales Managers, a New Business Development
Manager, and National Sales Manager all reporting to the VP
of Sales and Marketing, who also covers International Sales.
Over the years TrafFix had expanded to five buildings in a San
Clemente business park. In 2003 Jack began work on creating
a single building to house TrafFix Devices Inc. On April 1,
2008 his vision became a reality and TrafFix opened the doors
to their new corporate headquarters on Avenida La Pata in San
Clemente.
Moving all of the operations to one location has streamlined
communications between departments, which in turn has improved
the efficiency of new product development and has helped to
speed up manufacturing and expedite the shipping process.
Jack, President & Founder, Sue, Corporate Secretary &
Founder, Brent, VP Sales & Marketing, along with the rest
of the TrafFix Devices Team, will continue with product innovations
to keep TrafFix growing and evolving, in response to the needs
of the transportation and safety industry well into the 21st
Century.
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