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Tapco is one of the largest manufacturers of elevator buckets in the United States. Its products include agricultural buckets, fabricated steel buckets, industrial buckets, continuous fabricated buckets, elevator bolts, nuts, belt splices, abrasion resistant sheeting, and drag flights and hangar bearings. The company has an inventory of approximately 600,000 buckets and 11 million bolts. The company's most popular agricultural bucket is the solid polyethylene CC-HD style. Other materials include nylon, urethane, steel, ductile iron and aluminum. Its 74,000-square-foot facility houses six injection molding machines ranging from a small 170-ton press to a very large 1,000-ton press. Tapco was established in 1974 and maintains headquarters in the St. Louis suburb of Bridgeton, Mo.