Processors use communication, health protocols and selective hiring to best the pandemic
PTI Engineered Plastics Inc.
PTI Engineered Plastics Inc. made and donated 150,000 face masks in 2020, including to Children's Hospital of Michigan.
Plastics processors faced all-new challenges in 2020 to continue production of essential products amid the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.
During the
Plastics News Executive Forum, panelists described how their companies kept employees safe while navigating supply issues and hiring shortages caused by a disaster "no one was ready for."
"We all had contingency plans in place, but they were more related to electrical outages or floods, hurricanes," Geoff Foster, CEO and president of Core Technology Molding Corp., said during the virtual event.