Bob Lyons, Former TIPCO Technologies Owner, Dies at 84

Hose distributor group NAHAD announced Tuesday that Bob Lyons, the association’s former president and the longtime owner of TIPCO Technologies, had passed away. He was 84.

Lyons, according to an obituary, began his career as a purchasing agent at the Delaware State Hospital before joining Electric Hose and Rubber Company in Wilmington, Delaware, in 1966. After four years as sales manager for the Southeast at Dayco Corp., Lyons purchased George P. Thomas Rubber Co. of Baltimore — which would later become TIPCO — in 1983. He retired from the company in 2001.

NAHADLyons served as the fifth president of NAHAD in 1990 and 1991 and received the group’s George Carver award “in recognition of his exemplary service to our industry.” He was also the president of the IDCO cooperative from 2001 to 2011.


“His leadership, commitment and passion left a lasting imprint on the NAHAD community,” the association said in the announcement.