I can offer to the students real-life situations and problems, and relate them to the work they're doing as students. The marbled-white plastic column is 13 inches around. It holds 28 pairs of shoes and needs just 1.5 square feet of floor space. It arrives in a big box weighing 23 pounds. No tools are needed to install the Pair Tree - it slides into place between the ceiling and the floor.
Brackets are available for closets with vaulted ceilings.
The challenge now is to make enough Pair Trees to meet the growing demand. It takes six weeks to ship the molds. The Pair Tree is made at Plastic Injection Molding in Richland. The first involves an extrusion process, which we use to manufacture the column. Because of the size and wall thickness of this part, there are only a handful of companies in the U.S. that can make this part for us, and we were fortunate enough to find one such company right in our back yard.