Simple Green
ManufacturingCalifornia, United States51-200 Employees
Simple Green is a Huntington Beach-based manufacturer of environmentally friendly cleaning products. Its core formula was developed as a safer alternative to toxic cleaners used to remove tannic acid from coffee-roasting equipment, and it is described as biodegradable, non-toxic, non-flammable, and non-abrasive. The company began with Bruce FaBrizio and his father, who initially sold 55-gallon drums to automotive and industrial customers, and later adopted the name Sunshine Makers, Inc. in 1981 as it broadened into multiple distribution channels. Headquartered in California, Simple Green manufactures its products in Garden Grove and Lawrenceville, Georgia, while maintaining satellite offices worldwide. Its customers span automotive and industrial sectors and extend into hardware and DIY, consumer retail, government, and club-store channels. In the 1990s it established an Environmental Technology Division to advance cleaning technology and environmental responsibility, and in 2022 it partnered with R-Zero to install UV air disinfection units at its headquarters.