Established in Quincy, Kansas, USA

In 1948, J. Edwin Lewis established QuinCraft Products, an aluminum spin forming business in Quincy, Kansas. The factory was equipped with surplus spin forming lathes from the post war aircraft industry. QuinCraft Products originally did subcontract work for VitaCraft, an aluminum cooking utensil company in Kansas City.

However, Mr. Lewis knew his company needed to have a product line of its own for the long-term stability of his company. In 1952, Mr. Lewis realized his dream when he went to Raven, Missouri and met with C. B. Curry, an electrical engineer who was looking for someone to produce a popcorn popper he had invented and named the "Mazy Pop". Edwin Lewis knew that this was an amazing product as soon as he saw it pop one batch of popcorn.

(Rather than being a contractor to make the Mazy Pop) Mr. Lewis immediately purchased all manufacturing and marketing rights to the Mazy Pop. The popper's conical shape and basic design was not changed. However, he added attractive wooden handles to the bowl and a wooden knob to the lid.

In keeping with the time, he renamed the Mazy Pop to its current name, "Atom Pop". With this, the Atom Pop, a no-shake, no-stir popcorn popper was on the market.

Edwin Lewis and his wife, Martha, expanded their company to 17 employees and growing their business to manufacture more than 20,000 Atom Pop corn poppers a year. With the untimely death of Edwin, Martha was left to run QuinCraft Products on her own. Having the Atom Pop kept the company strong, even though aluminum kitchenware was fading and stainless steel and plastic kitchenware was coming into production.

QuinCraft stayed with its roots as an aluminum spin-forming business. With the advent of corn popping appliances, and then of the microwave popcorn, the demand for stove top popcorn poppers diminished, and QuinCraft saw the Atom Pop sales decline.