Ingenuity Is the Driving Force Behind
O’Neill Innovations.
Founded in Newark, Delaware, O’Neill Innovations thrive on using science and leading-edge technology to create significantly improved benefits in consumer products offered in existing and newly opened markets.
Established methods resulting in incremental product improvements just aren’t exciting. “Above all else, we’re innovators,” says company president Michael O’Neill. “It’s all about finding new, innovative ways to refresh and modernize products we all use.”
Founded in 2007, O’Neill Innovations is revitalizing the market for everyday products by using novel material science to eliminate problems customers despise but have resigned themselves to accept. That concept is the inspiration for the company’s first product, the MAXFIT work glove with Thinglove TM construction.
Due out this summer, the MAXFIT glove isn’t simply a redesign of an existing product, it’s a totally new category of work glove. Engineered with an advanced polymer material and construction that is designed to be kind to the skin, MAXFIT’s Thinglove TM construction enables the fingertips to maintain a level of touch sensitivity not possible with bulky gloves. They provide incredible dexterity and grip, allowing precise movement and control for even the most delicate tasks.
“We’re working to bring new technology to market by thinking about things differently,” O’Neill said. “We want to use our knowledge and innovation to significantly improve value and benefits for customers.”
Inventing new technologies has long been a passion for both O’Neill and Mark Provenzano, business associate at O'Neill Innovations .
As president of his previous company, O’Neill invented a proprietary technology currently used in a sports equipment product made by Spalding. He earned a degree in chemical engineering at The Queens University of Belfast in his native Ireland, and worked for DuPont in engineering, project management, and research and development. He also led several successful new business development ventures in semi-permeable polymer materials science, and is an accomplished inventor with a number of patents in this field.
Provenzano’s nine years of experience as a manufacturing engineer in the aerospace industry honed his ability to find solutions to perplexing problems. With over 20 years of sales experience, his creative approach to fulfilling customers’ needs perfectly suits the company’s mission of using breakthrough technology to offer relevant business solutions.
The company has facilities in Newark, Delaware with its home office, quaity control and product research facilities. It manufactures its own products and operates out of a 10,000 sq ft facility in Pennslyvania.
While the company operates in the United States, their goal is to be recognized worldwide as an innovation leader.
MAXFIT gloves with Thinglove TM technology are just the beginning. O’Neill Innovations has developed proprietary technology for applications in other breakthrough products, including a revolutionary material for use in medical and sports applications and a unique shape memory structure that will add lightweight convenience and instant usability to products like mattresses, gymnasium/athletic mats and body armor.