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Aurora Plastics Corporation was founded in March 1950 by engineer Joseph E. Giammarino (1916–1992) and businessman Abe Shikes (1908–1986) in Brooklyn, New York (moving to West Hempstead, Long Island in 1954), as a contract manufacturer of injection molded plastics.
May 22, 1992 · Giammarino,P.E., Joseph Edward was one of the Founders and Owners of the largest hobby company in the world. The company was Aurora Plastics Corporation in West Hempstead, Nassau County, New York.
- Westbury, New York
- March 1, 1916
- Brooklyn, Kings County, New York, USA
Feb 4, 2022 · Founded 1950 as Aurora Plastics Corporation in Brooklyn, New York by Joseph E. Giammarino, Gennaro Giammarino, Sr., and Abe Shikes. The company began as a contract manufacturer of injection-moulded plastics.
Jun 7, 2024 · Joseph E. Giammarino (1916-1992), an engineer, and Abe Shikes (1908-1986), a businessman, founded the Aurora Plastics Corporation in March 1950.
Aurora Plastics Corporation was founded in March, 1950 by engineer Joseph E. Giammarino and businessman Abe Shikes in Brooklyn, New York, as a contract manufacturer of injection molded plastics. With the hiring in 1952 of salesman John Cuomo, the company began the manufacture of its own line of plastic model kits.
Joseph J. Giammarino passed away on Saturday January 6, 2024, at Ocean Medical Center in Brick Township, NJ. Born in 1932, Joe was about to turn 92 on January 21st. He grew up...
Jul 20, 2020 · The Aurora Plastics Corporation was founded in 1950 in Brooklyn, New York, by engineer Joseph E Giammarino and businessman Abe Shikesas. Two years later it began to make its own line of plastic model kits, with ‘TV toys’ produced under licence from Universal Studios in the 1960s particularly popular.
