Paramold Manufacturing Ltd.

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About Us We at Paramold Manufacturing Limited and Koster Keunen Waxes Limited take great pride in our long history of quality, reliability and customer service. Johanna Keunen and Bernhard G. Koster founded Koster-Keunen in 1852. Originally, the company was set up in Aalst, The Netherlands. Refining beeswax and supplying this pure product to a thriving candle making market allowed the business to steadily expand through the 1890s. By the 1900s, Koster-Keunen began manufacturing candles and incense in addition to the refining business. Koster-Keunen reached a turning point in 1920. The Ponds Extract Corporation of New York approached them to be their supplier of pure, natural beeswax, an important ingredient for this fine cosmetic firm. The volume of business with Ponds and other U.S. companies expanded quickly, bringing about the establishment of Koster Keunen in Sayville, NY in 1930. During the 1940s, the company diversified by refining mineral waxes. Large quantities of these waxes were manufactured during World War II and supplied to the U.S. government to use in the packaging of spare parts and K-rations for the U.S. military forces. Further diversification came in the post war period. Other types of waxes were now also being processed such as carnauba, candelilla and ouricury. The refining, packaging and blending of waxes still continue today in production quantities unforeseen by the company’s founders. Richard B. Koster established a second family business at the Sayville location, Paramold Manufacturing Limited, in 1976 as a manufacturer of candles and a resource for candle making supplies. Paramold is one of the largest suppliers of candles in the U.S. today.

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