Unlike its competitors, Dale Nelson's Kombo Kart is more than just a slab on casters.
The Kombo Kart's description reads more like a sports car than a utility cart. Nelson says his carts are "engineered with the smoothest styling and handling, with easy maneuverability, featuring special accessories, and offered in standard fashion colors, burgundy, blue and gray."The Kombo Kart is just one of several products produced by Kombo Products, an incubator business being housed at the Commission of Economic Development of Orem offices.
Nelson, a machinist by trade and president of the company, said the idea of the Kombo Kart started years ago. "The idea got started because I wanted to go shopping. I walked to the store to shop and noticed people taking carts."
Nelson said stores lose an estimated $14 million a year in unreturned carts. Obviously people want carts to carry things around.
What makes the Kombo Kart different from its competitors is its accessibility and "rollability," Nelson said. The flatbed of the cart is made from a lighter molded polyethylene plastic, and the 10-inch rear wheels are larger than the front casters. The cart also rides much higher off the floor to make for easy accessibility.
The Kombo Kart has a load capacity of more than 500 pounds and features a detachable angled handle for easy maneuvering. The edges of the cart are rounded, and the base is designed to carry a variety of accessories.
With accessories like trays, baskets, brackets and dividers, the cart can be transformed from a simple flatbed to a cart for inventory taking, for holding bedding plants in a nursery or hothouse business, or for just about any other function.
"This cart is the most versatile cart we have ever used," said Joe Lynn Spencer, principle at Barnett Elementary School. "It can turn with a heavy load very easily. My teachers are always using this cart to move books, TVs, even tables."
The Kombo Kart is manufactured in Utah and comes in two sizes, 24 inches wide by 48 inches long and 221/2 by 34. Cost is from $250 to $300 per cart.
For more information call Dale Nelson at 221-9347.