Increased demand for clear plastics puts Paulding Spartech back in business

Ith demand for clear barriers increasing during the Coronavirus, Spartech’s Paulding, Ohio plant has swiftly shifted to creating plexiglass, and now has plans to immediately hire over 20 new full-time employees

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Just in the month of may, at least two point five million jobs were added back to the u-s economy after plummeting from covid-19.fox 55's mallory beard shows us how a local plastic fabrication plant is bouncing back after being forced to layoff its employees because of the pandemic.

Standup: ?employees at this spartech plant in paulding ohio were furloughed back in april because of covid 19.

But companies need plastic materials for protection now more than ever.

Giving spartech employees a chance to bounce back.gary buckland//plant manager "we normally do not produce clear materials here.

In talking to corporate they asked if we'd give it a try.

We got with our maintenance team.

Our production team.

We started discussion options over the course of three or four days.

We were able to convert our current process over in order to make the clear plexiglass."

Retail stores, grocery stores and meat packing plants have demanded plexiglass in the last few weeks for separating items and keeping distance between customers.a green light for spartech to get back on the line.ed salinas//produc tion manager"so 30% of our production has been converted the point where we're able to call people back from layoff and also start hiring.

We're looking at anywhere from 20 to 30 people."spartech employees were eager to get back into the groove too.even if that meant adjusting to a new game plan.cody lane//line operator "this material runs at different temperatures so it was a big adjustment for all of us but we got enough people collaborating on it that it worked out just great and now we've got three lines running.

Pushing it out all day long."

Cody says he's happy to be working again."i was only off for a short time.

With this new product an customer base, everyboy's thrilled to be real honest.

We're making a lot of plastic which in turn makes it alot easier on everybody else."

Making it easier on the spartech team and keeping the community protected.shauna houck//assistant operator"we can run so much different stuff and help out in so many different ways versus when we thought we were just running some simple plastic sheet...now we know that we can actually help other people."in paulding, i'm mallory beard.

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