Who is Upquark Safety
The Story Behind UPQUARK
Discover how we helping the environment and business worldwide - and meet the people who make it possible.
Discover how we helping the environment and business worldwide - and meet the people who make it possible.
An up quark is one of the smallest things that exists. Two of them and a down quark make a proton, so everything solid is built out of them. They also cannot be pulled apart from each other. That is the part we borrowed.
Industrial safety works the same way. Nobody buys a spill pallet for its resin grade or its wall thickness. They buy it because it holds, and it holds because of decisions nobody sees.
Two of those decisions:
Resin: we pick grades for what the pallet will be asked to hold, not for what molds fastest.
Regulation: we read what a rule is for, not only what it says, so a product still passes when the rule is tightened.
UPQUARK started in 2007 on a factory floor with an injection molding machine. What came off it was a series of injection-molded spill containment pallets, which we believe was the first time spill pallets had been made that way.
Almost everyone else in spill containment was rotomolding. There are good reasons for that. Rotomolding tooling is cheap and it handles large hollow parts well, so a small manufacturer can get a product to market without much capital behind it.
We went the other way. An injection mold costs many times more and takes months to cut. In 2007 that was most of the money we had. What it bought was repeatability: plastic forced into a steel mold under pressure comes out the same every cycle, and the ten-thousandth pallet matches the first on wall thickness and tolerance. Rotomolding cannot hold that. Wall thickness is what a load rating rests on.
The original drawings are still here, yellowed now. The first full container shipped later that year.
Looking back from that single container in 2007, the UPQUARK footprint has grown beyond our wildest imagination. Today, we are proud to state that over 1,000,000 UPQUARK spill containment units have been delivered and are in active use globally.
This number is not just a statistic; it is a profound testament to the trust that thousands of customers worldwide have placed in our commitment to quality, compliance, and detail.
As we look toward the future, we invite you to partner with the company that has been there since the beginning, set the injection-molded standard, and continues to protect environments, one detail at a time.
Safety starts from the smallest particle. Safety starts from UPQUARK.
The Jishishan earthquake hit just before midnight in December 2023, in weather well below freezing. The first thing people needed was warmth, so we sent winter jackets and emergency supplies. It wasn't the first time. Since 2018 we've been sending living supplies into disaster areas, the basic things that run out first while the larger relief effort is still getting organised. There's no foundation behind this and no budget line for it. When something happens and we can help, we load the car. The photos on this page are Sky Woo loading the boxes.
