by Dianna Brodine, vice president, editorial, Plastics Business At a recent MAPP plant tour event, a room filled with plastics processing professionals from around the US discussed the struggles their plants are facing with recruitment and retention – and then shared their strategies. This list is a quick glimpse into the creative ideas being utilized today to solve one of the … [Read more...] about Recruitment and Retention: Ideas from Other Processors
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Finding and Assessing New Business Opportunities
by Nicole Mitchell, editor, Plastics Business Manufacturing companies across the US are struggling to find the right new business opportunities for their teams – and those new opportunities have to be weighed against current capacity due to labor shortages, increased product cost, transportation issues and more. In the last two years, manufacturers have had to step back and … [Read more...] about Finding and Assessing New Business Opportunities
Processors Increase Wages Amid Historically High US Inflation Rate
by Marcella Kates, marketing director, MAPP Manufacturers have faced historically challenging issues in the past three years, including a chaotic and unpredictable supply chain network, increasing resin prices and lead times, a national labor shortage, an unpredictable international pandemic that disrupts the global economy and the highest inflation rate since November 1981 … [Read more...] about Processors Increase Wages Amid Historically High US Inflation Rate
Sophisticated Check Fraud Scheme Stopped with Positive Pay
by Dianna Brodine, vice president, editorial, Plastics Business “I received a call from the bank,” said Erica Berg, chief financial officer for Vital Plastics, Inc., Baldwin, Wisconsin. “A check was coming through on our payroll account, and the bank wanted to verify it since it didn’t match up with the data we had provided.” Vital Plastics uses a service called Positive … [Read more...] about Sophisticated Check Fraud Scheme Stopped with Positive Pay
Plastics Processors Identify Both Challenges and Opportunities in Healthcare Landscape
by Rachael Pfenninger, director of strategic execution, MAPP According to an article published by the American Medical Association in 2020, healthcare spending in the United States increased by 4.6% in 2019 – a percentage that was on par with 2018 growth and slightly faster than what was observed in 2017.¹ What is most remarkable, however, isn’t that healthcare spending is … [Read more...] about Plastics Processors Identify Both Challenges and Opportunities in Healthcare Landscape