List of products by brand REL

REL PLASTICS was a mold making company that started up in the 1940s by Larry Fattori son of Lazzaro Fattori. In 1936 Lazzaro imported what might be one of the first plastic injection machines into the US. Larry bought into the idea and in the 1940s started a plastic molding company. Using the initials of the first names of his sisters Rose and Ester and himself he named the company REL. REL made molds for the home and auto industries. In 1948 REL started making molds for toys. To sell the toys from their molds a subsidiary was created, the Plastic Art Corporation. They compressed the name to PLASCO to use as a marketing slogan. REL made and sold tea sets and doll house furniture for girls and western themed figures and playsets for boys. They originally used styrene hard plastic but an ad from a 1957 Dearth's Hobby & Toy center has a western playset touted as being "made of soft, rubber like unbreakable plastic". Other toy companies like Lido Toys and Archer also switched from hard to soft polyethylene plastic in the mid 1950s as it was safer for children to play with. About 1963 REL stopped making toys to concentrate upon the auto industry. They went out of business in the early 1980s.