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Why Customers Love Rug Gripper™

  • Prevents tripping on bunched rugs (especially important in homes with mobility-limited family members)
  • Can also be used on rugs and mats
  • Easy to apply – just takes minutes to put down
  • Works on ALL flooring, including tile, wood, laminate, and carpet
  • Provides horizontal hold
  • Works better than a rug pad
  • Made in the United States
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Why Retailers Love Rug Gripper™

  • Offers competitive margins
  • Uses less shelf space than competitive products
  • Comes in award-winning, attractive packaging that entices consumers
  • Provides good alternative to mattress pad products
  • Comes in just one SKU to order Private label options available
  • Comes in multiple sizes
  • Customer satisfaction guarantee placed on every box
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The innovative design of the Drop Cloth Gripper™ solves this annoying problem by locking the drop cloth in place so that it catches all stray paint droplets. With this highly functional product, your customers can avoid a damaging and frustrating painting accident. Drop Cloth Gripper™ is the perfect add-on buy and will fit neatly in the painting prep section of your store. Contact us today to get Drop Cloth Gripper™ in your store.

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Non-slip Products 

Smooth Living With Non-Slip Products

A wrinkled carpet isn’t just a nuisance; it can also represent a danger. Customers love our no slip products, because they make life around the home, office, and car a little easier and safer. Retailers love these products too, because we can offer high margins and packaging designed to make the product move.

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Award-Winning Packaging

Our home and office products come in attractive packaging and are positioned to be a feel-good buy and consume less shelf space. Optimum Technologies was recently nominated for the Martha Stewart American Made awards in packaging design.

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You’ll find our products on the shelves of almost all of the biggest retailers in the United States as well as at retail locations around the world. We also work with regional and small retailers and offer private label packaging.
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Award-Winning Packaging

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Our home and office products come in attractive packaging and are positioned to be a feel-good buy and consume less shelf space. Optimum Technologies was recently nominated for the Martha Stewart American Made awards in packaging design.
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You’ll find our products on the shelves of almost all of the biggest retailers in the United States as well as at retail locations around the world. We also work with regional and small retailers and offer private label packaging.

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You’ll find our products on the shelves of almost all of the biggest retailers in the United States as well as at retail locations around the world. We also work with regional and small retailers and offer private label packaging.

  • You’ll find our products on the shelves
  • You’ll find our products on the shelves
  • You’ll find our products on the shelves
  • You’ll find our products on the shelves
  • You’ll find our products on the shelves

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You’ll find our products on the shelves of almost all of the biggest retailers in the United States as well as at retail locations around the world. We also work with regional and small retailers and offer private label packaging.

  • You’ll find our products on the shelves
  • You’ll find our products on the shelves
  • You’ll find our products on the shelves
  • You’ll find our products on the shelves
  • You’ll find our products on the shelves

Company History 

1982 – Patents, trademark, and machinery to make Lok-Lift® are acquired by Lewis J. McDermott in a closed bid auction.

1983 – Lok-Lift® Inc. formed by Lewis J. McDermott. Later, Lewis P. McDermott joins Lok-Lift®, Inc.; begins production and market evaluation of product ideas.

1985 – Sean McDermott joins Lok-Lift® Inc.

1985 – License for Lok-Lift® signed in Holland for European sales of Lok-Lift® and for use of Lok-Lift®® Trademark.

1985 – Lok-Lift® Rug Gripper™ shown to Sears. After 11 months evaluation, it’s taken on into their catalog and retail stores.  It goes on to be a bestseller in the catalog.

1986 – Vicki McDermott Joins Lok-Lift® Inc. after law school.

1989 – Steve Davis joins the team as a principal.

1990 – Optimum Technologies, Inc. is formed from Lok-Lift®, Inc. and sales increase dramatically.

1990 -1991 – Steve Davis hires teams of sales reps to broaden the market for Lok-Lift® Rug Gripper™.

1991 – Exclusive deal for commercial Lok-Lift® signed with Shaw Industries.

1992-1993 – Optimum Technologies, Inc. starts doing business in Australia and New Zealand.

1993 – Manufacturing equipment is moved to Cartersville, GA from Dalton.

1996 – Optimum has patents issued or pending in 28 countries.

1997 – Wal-Mart takes on Lok-Lift® Rug Gripper™.

2004 – Optimum’s Lok-Lift® Rug Gripper™ Trademark is registered in European community.

2007 – Optimum’s Trademark Lok-Lift® Rug Gripper™ is registered in China.

2008 – Optimum increases its market share in the retail arena by adding products and additional distributors.

2009 - 2010 – Optimum increases its market push as a manufacturer of “Made in USA” products while successfully competing with products coming into the market from Asia.

2011 – Steve Davis becomes president of company.

2011 – Optimum actively pursues additional relationships to increase its line of products and sell to additional new avenues of customers.

2011 – Present – Optimum has continued to grow and increase market share year after year.

2014 – Present – “Creating a quality American-made product, while caring for our environment and employees, has always been our priority.  We have achieved this goal and are now serving a growing number of satisfied customers in multiple countries.”

Great Partnerships, Long-Lasting Commercial Flooring, and Happy Homes

Lok-Lift®’s releasable knitted mesh material works on all four flooring surfaces. It also makes removing carpet quick and easy and even saves the carpet for reuse. Lok-Lift® is ideal for businesses that need regular access to subfloor wiring and temporary events that require carpet, such as:

Eco-Conscious Products

Lok-Lift®’s releasable knitted mesh material works on all four flooring surfaces. It also makes removing carpet quick and easy and even saves the carpet for reuse. Lok-Lift® is ideal for businesses that need regular access to subfloor wiring and temporary events that require carpet, such as:

Made in the U.S.A.

Our Rug-Gripper and Lok-Lift® products are made at our 250,000 square foot manufacturing and warehouse facility in Cartersville, GA. We are proud to manufacture here in the United States and to employ U.S. workers.

Lok-Lift®

Quick and Easy Carpet Installation with No Mess and No Waiting

Our popular Lok-Lift® product uses a releasable adhesive to provide carpet installation up to four times faster than glue without the fumes and mess.

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Gradus

The Cadillac of Floor Accessories

Help your customers extend the life of their stairs and flooring with the sleek, high quality Gradus line of stair nosings, transition strips, and other flooring accessories.

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Help your customers extend the life of their stairs and flooring with the sleek, high quality Gradus line of stair nosings, transition strips, and other flooring accessories.

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