Steve Maguire
Maguire Products, Inc.
Inducted 2018
Steve Maguire (1943 – ) is a prolific inventor, innovator, and founder of Maguire Products Incorporated. Since entering the plastics industry in 1970, Steve has transformed and advanced the state of the art in plastic material handling technologies and systems. He developed material handling technologies that allow plastic product manufacturers to better control the preparation and utilization of their plastic materials.
Best known as the inventor of the Maguire Weigh Scale Blender, Steve has single-handedly developed the basic concepts, system designs, and manufacturing methods for new forms of auxiliary processing equipment, including the first liquid color pump, shuttle granulator, mini-central vacuum system, gravimetric color and additive feeders to name a few. His pragmatic approach and ability to re-think current processing systems and technologies have led to successfully designing and introducing these and other plastics auxiliary equipment technologies to the plastics industry.
Steve has more than 40 patented equipment inventions to his credit. Maguire Products, Inc., which he founded to commercialize his many inventions, has become one of the leading global suppliers of auxiliary equipment for the plastics industry.