Eddie Howe

Meet Eddie

Eddie Howe is Vice President of Sales at Curbell Plastics, leading the company’s sales organization nationwide with more than 20 years of dedication, leadership, and industry expertise.

Eddie has devoted his entire professional career to helping equipment manufacturers, glass laminators, security glazing providers, specialty vehicle makers, and other customers maximize the value of performance plastics. He joined Curbell Plastics just 10 days after graduating from college and has grown with the organization ever since.

In his role as Vice President of Sales, Eddie is responsible for setting Curbell’s strategic sales direction, supporting key customer relationships, and developing the talent and culture that drive long-term growth. His leadership is grounded in collaboration, customer focus, and a strong commitment to developing the next generation of sales leaders.

A Partner in Your Success

“Nothing is going to hit as hard as life,” Eddie says, citing one of his favorite Rocky Balboa quotes, as he reflects on the challenges he and his customers face together. “But it ain’t how hard you hit; it’s about how hard you can get hit, and keep moving forward. How much you can take, and keep moving forward. That’s how winning is done.”

As it is in life, so it is in business. Over the course of his more than 20-year career with Curbell Plastics, Eddie has helped dozens of companies — ranging from emerging and small enterprises to Fortune 500, household-name corporations — meet whatever comes at them head-on. From material selection through stocking, cutting, and fabrication, he helps customers find practical solutions to their unique needs.

For example, Eddie streamlined the development of one of his customers’ core products, for which the company traditionally ordered polycarbonate sheet and then had all cutting and forming done in-house or elsewhere. Working closely with the longtime customer, he devised a solution that increased efficiency, quality, and consistency by having Curbell deliver a custom-fabricated, complete part — packaged, branded, and ready for the company to sell out of the box.

That ethos of persistence, plus his lifelong love of sports, also fuels Eddie’s dedication to his Curbell colleagues, to whom he has long been a mentor. He embraces his role in training and education — a core value at Curbell because it helps all our people and customers win — and has served in many teaching roles. As one example, he helped lead a Curbell program in which the company hired a number of fresh college graduates and set them up for career success through a six-to-eight-month training regimen. Eddie proudly notes that several alumni of that program are still with Curbell Plastics today, and he continues his work to, as he puts it, “develop our people to be the best in the industry.”