Seljan Company is not new to manufacturing. We are a family-owned business that began in 1967 dealing exclusively in metal manufacturing. In 1999 we branched out into the world of rotationally molded plastics. Some of the first parts we molded were trash receptacles for other customers.

 

We are in a small town in Wisconsin. Most of the management team is from this town and went to high school here. Our team colors are blue & yellow. After going to a football game we noticed that all they had for trash cans were a bunch of rusted out 55 gallon drums with a piece of flat metal for a lid. We thought it would be a charitable thing to make and donate some new plastic receptacles to the school for the football field and the parking lots. We made 20 of them. A few months later the president of the company was getting a haircut and his barber mentioned how much better those trashcans looked. The idea was born and we named it KOLORCANS. We decided to redesign the trashcan and improve it. We created handles that are recessed to make it easier to move. We came up with the first all plastic dome top that didn't have springs or hinges. The door is designed to always close on it's own.

 

Along with that, we thought about trash bags and how expensive those were to just toss into a landfill. We came up with a liner with handles. Maintenance people and our local parks and recreation director remarked how much easier their jobs became with the addition of our liners. We continued to add new lids and sizes to accommodate growing needs. All of our Kolorcans' products are made by our in-house mold department. We have customers on the Atlantic coast that requested bins that would not blow away in their harsh climate and we accommodated them. Our ability to produce custom products efficiently and economically is one of our many strong suits.

 

Fast forward to today. KOLORCANS are being used at university's, major league ball parks, beaches, hotels, mall, airports, factories and just about anywhere you can think.