B-to-B Goes 'Plug and Play'

United is a manufacturer and cataloger of waste containers, smokers' urns and planters. It targets the jan/san supply market, as well as vertical markets such as the office products industry, hospitality, scientific/medical, school equipment and other commercial applications.

The company started out more than 85 years ago in Brooklyn, N.Y., making metal cabinets. It later segued into the manufacturing of World War II ammunition boxes and metal kitchen cabinetry, and eventually made the waste receptacle business its primary focus, relocating to Pottsville, Pa., in 1956.