In the mid 80’s Tom sold his contracting company to become an exclusive independent representative for a German based specialty resin supplier called Silikal North America. Silikal was new to the US market at the time so Tom pioneered and developed a market for the newly arrived methylmethacrylate (acrylic) resin flooring system Silikal manufactured. He had exclusive rights in a twelve state area in the Midwest which often took him throughout the world as his customer base grew to include multi-national corporations. At that time Tom utilized the new and emerging, cutting edge computer based marketing and sales programs educating architects, engineers, end users and contractors about this exciting, newly imported technology from Germany. To quote the competition “Tom made Silikal a household name in the resinous flooring community”.

Silikal was sold in the late 90’s and absorbed by a large conglomerate and no longer exists. Now close to thirty-five years later Tom continues to put his vast knowledge to work here in the United States, as well as at various locations around the world as a consultant advising contractors, resinous flooring manufacturers and other small, medium and large corporations about business practices that include company infrastructure development, market trends and processes primarily, but not limited to, the resinous flooring market.
In the past, some of these services were Pro Bono to contractors Tom dealt with to help increase their sales. He assisted in business development ideas and practices to facilitate a professional appearance in the market place and also streamlined mundane office chores to free up the contractors staff to spend more time on more productive profitable endeavors such as customer relationship management, marketing and sales, market intelligence, and company/project financial awareness, among other processes through the use of the new emerging computer based technology.

With nearly 35 years of history and expertise from working in this field, and the lessons learned over that time period as a contractor, independent representative and a material supplier, Contraks.com was the natural result of a long journey that took Tom throughout the United States and the world acquiring and developing these special skills.