Hygloss Products
Craft and classroom paper, modeling dough and art supplies from a family-run factory in Wallington, New Jersey
⚙️ American Manufacturing
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Company details
Where Hygloss Products are made
Wallington, New Jersey
Hygloss runs its corporate office and factory from the same site in Wallington, New Jersey. Paper is the historic core of the operation — the company began as a specialty paper supplier — and bleeding tissue, metallic cardstock, foil paper and blank books remain the heart of the line.
A family business, three generations in
Sarah Neurath and her sister-in-law Rose Engelsrath started the company in 1950. Sarah’s son Moshe joined in 1983, and the family has been running it ever since. The company still answers its own phone: a real person picks up at 973-458-1700.
Beyond paper
The catalogue now runs past 3,000 items — modeling dough, colored sand, foam trays and shapes, doll hair, craft squares and door-hanger blanks alongside the paper. Hygloss specifies them to be classroom-tough, safe for small hands, and priced so a teacher can outfit a whole class.
Hygloss Products operates a factory at its Wallington, New Jersey headquarters and manufactures there, but it does not publish a blanket Made in USA claim covering a catalogue of more than 3,000 items. Craft components such as beads, sequins and shells are commonly imported across this industry. This profile therefore carries an American Manufacturing mark. Buyers who need domestic-origin certainty on a specific item should ask Hygloss for country-of-origin documentation on that SKU.
The story
Hygloss Products started in 1950 as a specialty paper supplier for education supply stores, founded by Mrs. Sarah Neurath and her sister-in-law Mrs. Rose Engelsrath — two women building a manufacturing business in a post-war industry that was not especially built for them.
In 1983 Sarah’s son, Moshe Neurath, came to work for the company. The family has been running it ever since, which makes Hygloss one of the longer-running family-owned suppliers in American classroom crafts.
The catalogue grew outward from paper. Bleeding tissue squares, metallic cardstock, foil paper and blank paperback books gave way to modeling dough, colored sand, foam trays and shapes, doll hair and door-knob-hanger blanks — the raw material of a school art cart.
Today the company works from a corporate office and factory in Wallington, New Jersey, partners with retailers and consumers in all fifty states, and still puts a person rather than a phone tree on the other end of the line.
Why they matter
School and craft supplies are among the most thoroughly imported categories in American retail. A domestic factory still making paper goods for classrooms is genuinely rare, and it decides whether a teacher’s supply budget circulates locally or leaves the country.
Family ownership across three generations is its own kind of stability. A company like Hygloss Products that has been in the same family since 1950 has lived through every offshoring wave that hit consumer paper, and stayed put through all of them.
Classroom products also carry a safety dimension that origin affects. Items made and packed under a domestic quality system — safe for small hands, as the company puts it — are easier for a buyer to trace and verify than goods arriving through several layers of import brokerage.
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Frequently asked questions
When was Hygloss Products founded?
1950, by Mrs. Sarah Neurath and her sister-in-law Mrs. Rose Engelsrath, as a specialty paper supplier for education supply stores.
Where is Hygloss Products located?
Wallington, New Jersey. The corporate office and the factory share the same site, at 45 Hathaway Street.
Is Hygloss Products still family-owned?
Yes. Sarah Neurath’s son Moshe joined the business in 1983, and the family has run it ever since — three generations in.
Does Hygloss Products manufacture everything it sells?
No. Hygloss manufactures at its Wallington factory, but the catalogue runs past 3,000 items and includes craft components that this industry generally imports. The company does not publish a blanket Made in USA claim, so buyers needing domestic origin on a specific item should request country-of-origin documentation for that SKU.