photo by: Lauren Fox/Journal-World File Photo
An employee at Plastikon Industries in Lawrence s East Hills Business Park oversees the manufacturing of plastic medical vials in this November 2020 file photo.
New efforts to fight COVID-19 appear likely to add more manufacturing jobs at a Lawrence-based plant.
A local economic development official confirmed Tuesday that Plastikon Industries has won a key job that is expected to produce 50 new positions at its high-tech plant in the East Hills Business Park. The plant produces medical vials, and now it is adding a new production line that will fill and cap some medical containers as well. In other words, the plant will have the ability to not only build the packaging, but also put the product in the packaging or container, as well.
Lawrence City Hall, 6 E. Sixth St., is pictured on May 3, 2016.
City leaders will soon consider providing sales and property tax breaks for the expansion of an alcoholic beverage distribution company in northern Lawrence.
As part of its meeting Tuesday, the Lawrence City Commission will consider an economic development assistance request from LRICO Services LLC to expand the existing Standard Beverage building located in the Timberedge Industrial Park, according to a city staff memo to the commission. The company is looking for sales tax exemptions on construction materials and labor as well as a 10-year property tax abatement.
Standard Beverage is a Kansas-owned distributor of spirits, wines and beer founded in 1949, according to application materials. The company’s primary distribution facility in Lawrence was established in 1989 and it currently has 140 employees. Hourly warehouse and delivery employees at the facility earn an average wage of $20 per hour.