WILLIAM H. "BILL" WILSON INVENTED "SHINEOLOGY" when he was 27 years old. And not long after that he built this company around it.

He founded Pioneer Eclipse in 1978 with the introduction of a new high-speed propane powered burnisher, along with a new acrylic polymer floor coating that complimented the gloss potential of high-speed buffing. Using a new, more powerful propane powered engine, he engineered a machine to spin the buffing pad at 2,000 RPM. Bill then formulated Total Eclipse, a durable floor finish that when buffed at high speed produced the highest gloss level of vinyl floors at the time. He dubbed this new combination of machine, chemical, and process as “shineology”, and it remains the ultimate goal in floor care today. 

Bill Wilson was noted throughout the floor care industry around the world as a leading innovator. He was gifted with an unparalleled drive for excellence at any task he took on, whether it was cleaning floors at night as a teenager or engineering a burnisher to make those floors look perfect. 

Pioneer Eclipse continues that drive for Excellence & Innovation today as we serve the floor care and janitorial industry world-wide. We are the world leaders in propane powered floor care machines, and we intend to continue our founder's legacy of “shineology” far into the future.