Gold Standards
About Us
OUR STORY
How We Began
William H. Nieder founded Marathon Engineering Corporation in the spring of 1973. After working the rubber industry for 3-M, and running a sports surfacing company based in Redwood City, Mr. Nieder saw the need for a high-quality safety padding within the correctional and psychiatric markets. From this idea, he developed Gold Medal Safety Padding®, which takes it name after the Gold Medal Mr. Nieder won in the 1960 Olympics in Rome. In addition to winning the Gold in the Shot Put in 1960, Mr. Nieder also won the 1956 Silver Medal in the Shot Put in Sydney.
Building the future
Excellence And Innovation Built Into Every Design
Since its inception in 1973, Gold Medal Safety Padding® has been installed in thousands of seclusion and detox cells in prisons and jails, safety rooms, suicide prevention and emergency rooms in hospitals and psychiatric facilities and “time-out” and calm-down rooms in schools and autism centers. Because 1973, Marathon Engineering Corporation’s specialized installation crews have been there to ensure a proper and quality installation.
Since 2005
Global Expansion
In January 2005, its current President & CEO, George Hrunka, purchased Marathon. Although the management has changed, Marathon’s commitment to its “Gold Standard” of quality workmanship and product excellence has remained intact.
Gold Medal Safety Padding has been installed throughout sixteen countries and is represented internationally in Canada by our partner, Marathon Institutional Products Canada based out of Toronto, and in Asia, Europe and the Middle East by Gold Medal Safety Padding based out of Queensland, Australia.
Get To Know us
Our Team
George Hrunka
President & CEO
Wayne Skala
AIA, Senior Estimator
Nilda Rivera
Senior Project Coordinator
Hannah Riske
Administrative Director
Angee Corbisello
Project Coordinator
Jennifer Bermudez
Project Coordinator
Victoria Rule
Customer Service Coordinator
How Can We Help?
Looking for a proposal, have a question about our product or services? We are happy to help. Just call 239-303-7378 or click the button below to email our team.