80 Business View - January 2016
Corma, Inc.
How one man’s vision propelled his company to industry leadership
Corrugated plastic pipe is strong, light and extreme-
ly flexible. It can be utilized for a myriad of products,
many of which we see, use, or handle everywhere, ev-
eryday - from the dryer hose in the laundry room to
automotive hosing under the hood; from appliances
to sewage and drainage applications; from cable duct-
ing to medical tubing. But although corrugated plastic
pipe is virtually ubiquitous, if it weren’t for the tenacity,
skill and vision of one man, it’s very likely there would
be much less of it around.
The man in question is Manfred Lupke, President and
CEO of Corma, Inc., today, one of the world’s leading
producers of the machinery and die tooling equipment
for corrugated plastic pipe manufacturing. His story is
a poignant reminder that being true to one’s ideas and
ideals is a quality that benefits not only one individual,
but potentially the whole world, at large.
Manfred came to Canada from Germany in 1969.
Although trained as a mechanical engineer, he did
not have the necessary credentials in his new home
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