Thank you for your interest in our unique closure system.
I (and my small team – though I hog most communications at this point) absolutely LOVE LOVE LOVE it when you email us with specific reasons why you need something more, something better in a zipper.
We LOVE when you tell us you have been searching 30 years for a better closure, even trying to create one yourself, yet haven’t found anything that would work for what you’re trying to do and so you’ve settled for closure redundancies or just not going into production.
But, Zipr Shift is currently not shipping any product.
We shipped product last year just to get feedback and as another public disclosure. We targeted every market possibility – fashion, industrial, packaging.
It is all part of the product development cycle. We can’t make great things in a vacuum. Time told us what preliminary testing failed to show us.
We’re currently taking the feedback and working on the second version of the closure.
Our website is now outdated and we’re not updating it until we see the state of the art contributions of a company called nanoGriptech and not until we’re done ramping up and refining the new manufacturing processes.
We estimate that to be 2021 at the latest.
There are some things we feel our leads don’t understand…
When was the last time that you have seen a NEW zipper?
The companies that you go to for zippers are likely very much older than your own company.
Your questions are tailored to companies that are more established – “How much are samples? What is the cost of and can you supply 200K FT per month?”
Our website shows what we’re building and we’re moving slow and steady because…
As customers you just want a product that solves your problems. You don’t really care who you get it from as long as you’re going to keep your company out of trouble and get what you need.
Zipr Shift, one pretty clever mouse, has invented a ‘better mousetrap’ and is not trying to have the second mouse, any opportunistic competitors, get the cheese.
The problem is that when you create paradigm shifting technology, the first thing everyone says is that it’s IMPOSSIBLE.
The US military has been researching better closure solutions since WWI and the advent of chemical weapons, and they didn’t come up with this possibility.
Military research archives:
FEASIBILITY AND DESIGN STUDY FOR COLLECTIVE PROTECTION EQUIPMENT FOR THE AN/MSG-4 SYSTEM (1961)
Evaluation of Fasteners for Flexible Shelter Applications (1975)
A Test Unit for Evaluating the Mechanical Endurance of Slide Fasteners (Zippers) (1977)
Then, after everyone realizes the innovation was possible, they say it was OBVIOUS.
So, we wanted to see what your current closure suppliers would do in response to our seemingly impossible technology. We had to give them ample time to fund R&D and demand their PhD engineers and highly paid scientists Do Something!
YKK spent $78 Million in 2015 on zipper R&D.
And …now you know as well as we do that they haven’t changed.
So, Zipr Shift should end up being the one that sells the closure to you because all those other companies won’t have it or anything like it… They just have what they’ve always had, what you’re tired of.
But, we also needed to prevent getting out-innovated…
We have pioneered the flagship closure product engineering and design, the first closure designed as such that the world has ever seen per our prior art searching.
I, Tes, the sole garage inventor was not sold on my ingenuity. I didn’t want to rest on the first thing that worked. And, I didn’t. I’ve pivoted numerous times to more streamlined designs.
I thought a new and inexpensive closure was possible when everyone told me it would’ve already been invented by better engineers …with degrees and alphabet soup at the end of their names.
Well, I knew they could take my engineering and perfect it, as it’s so much easier to see what is wrong in something than to see what can be out of nothing. So, I set out to see what was wrong in what I conceived before anyone else could.
If I would’ve sold my very first designed and engineered closure to you then Zipr Shift would’ve been out-innovated.
And back to the nanoGriptech thing with needing to see the change they bring to the state of the art…
They’re getting heaps of federal funding to do what our closure is trying to do. This is only public sector need but it ripples into the private sector need – if something can fill the rigor of the public sector requirements then it’ll likely get the private sector customers along with the public sector customers.
But, after ten years and millions in funding to nanoGriptech, DoD is putting out public innovation contests and asking Zipr Shift for samples.
It’s as if nanoGriptech is soaking up taxpayer dollars for something that isn’t needed.
As for DoD, it’s ridiculous to ask for other solutions while pouring the most money into only one solution that hasn’t borne any fruits and gotten procured.
Why is DoD funding them? We need to figure that out.
We don’t know what they don’t have. We just know what they’ve shown they do have.
So, I just ask for your patience. And, I hope this post will help for you to understand why.
And, if you’re a government contractor then the reason for our flippantly directing you to nanoGriptech’s website when you ask for samples is that we are not working for the government for free.
If DoD wants to fund what they don’t inevitably need then they’ll reap what they sow.
Zipr Shift advisers, investors, and employees are not public servants so it is not our duty to provide the government with what it thinks it needs in our closure without payment. And, even Public Servants are Paid to Serve.
And, it is so much DoD employees duty to use taxpayer dollars to get what DoD needs to protect the war-fighter that they could just take our technology and use it for their specific needs.
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