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| PNN | 5120 |
| Work Detail | Silver-Line Plastics has essentially completed its 75,000-square-foot building expansion and expects production to begin before the end of the year. Plant manager Tim George said the city has issued a certificate of occupancy, and only minor construction work remains to be completed. He expects equipment installation to begin in a couple of weeks or so. "Hopefully, after Thanksgiving we'll be making some pipe out there," George said. The project a $10 million effort that doubled the size of the plastic pipe manufacturing operation has required considerable coordination and planning because the factory kept turning out pipe during the entire process. Despite the challenges, the company is on track for completion of the project, and the good news is the company has already added more new employees than it publicly projected and more jobs are coming in the future. The company secured an $800,000 loan from the Comanche County Industrial Development Authority, with the money to be repaid by creating and maintaining, for five years 19 new jobs. Tammy Stanley, the plant's office manager and personnel director (among other jobs) said the company hired 43 people from last November through this August and it has retained 70 percent of them (about 30 people). "That's huge for us," she said. Part of the high retention, she and George said, can be explained by the training program that's been put in place for new hires. When the company based in Ashville, N.C. opened its new plant here in 2001, it relied upon a rudimentary training system. Essentially, workers from North Carolina trained local hires on the job. |
| Country | United States , Northern America |
| Industry | Construction |
| Entry Date | 15 Oct 2016 |
| Source | http://www.swoknews.com/business/silver-line-completes-expansion |
