After continuous growth during a previously lull winter season and in anticipation of a busy spring, Product Architects Inc — the parent company behind the Polar Bottle brand of insulated water bottles and the Cenote Hydration System — has hired eight new full-time production employees.
This week, Product Architects welcomes Erik Hernandez, Cristobal Hernandez, Jessica Nguyen, Mona Garza, Rosemary LeChuga, Ricardo Centeno and Christina LaCombe to the company. Manuel Villegas will sign on as a full-time worker when he returns from a trip overseas in a few months.
The new employees originally joined the company as temporary workers through the Denver-based staffing company Primesource Staffing; and many of them have been working in production for close to a year. Their full-time addition to the company comes three weeks after Product Architects moved to a new location in Gunbarrel, Colorado, to double the size of its previous space in east Boulder.
“We have had a good year and these eight already proved themselves to be really good employees,” said Product Architects’ President Judy Amabile. “We are lucky to have them.”
Product Architects originally got started in 1994 as a three-person operation in a two-car garage in north Boulder, Colorado. It then expanded to a business operating out of a 15,000 square foot facility that employs nearly 50 people. And less than three years since the company moved from the 7,000 square foot space it called home for 15 years, Product Architects once again doubled its space.
The recent move of premises follows a year of steady growth for the Boulder-based insulated water bottle manufacturer. Along with launching the new Ergo lifestyle bottle and stainless steel Thermaluxe bottle, Product Architects has added several new key accounts and increased its manpower by 48% over the past three years.
The new 32,000 square feet of space, company representatives say, will allow for anticipated future growth.
