Injection molder Hoffer Plastics Corp. has made hiring and working with military veterans among its top priorities leading into 2021.
The South Elgin, Ill.-based company says it has successfully hired numerous veterans and is committed to supporting the veterans they employ throughout the processes they undertake before, during and after future deployments.
Current veteran employees at Hoffer include two active army reservists who have served a combined 43.5 years in the military. Keith Kuhns, an employee at Hoffer and member of the Marines and the National Guard, was deployed to Afghanistan in September 2019. After he returned home, Hoffer helped him get back to speed with any training he’d missed.
To thank the company, Kuhns presented a plaque to the members of Hoffer Plastics for their support throughout his deployment.
One of the changes expected under a new presidential administration will be support for electric vehicles. (Plastics News alumna Audrey LaForest has this overview in Automotive News on what a Joe Biden presidency may mean.)
The auto industry has continued to invest in an EV future throughout the past few years regardless of interest from Washington, with the most recent move from Ford Motor Co. as it plans to invest $100 million at its Kansas City, Mo., plant to make electric transit vans.
The new Transit van is set to be unveiled Thursday.
The E-Transit will join an electric F-150 and the electric Mustang as Ford uses its “most iconic” vehicles to lead the way to an electric vehicle future.
The cold winter months don’t have to mean an end to fresh produce. Our sister paper Crain’s New York Business has a story on the rise of vertical, indoor hydroponic gardens.
It is, CNYB reports, an industry that is getting funds from venture capitalists along with a growing customer base as city dwellers try to shorten their food supply chain.
“COVID-19 was a clear accelerant of existing behavior,” said Irving Fain, CEO of Bowery Farming, which has two large indoor-farming warehouses in Kearny, N.J. “People got a clear understanding of how the fresh-food supply chain works and just how fragile that can be.”
All that also should mean growth for suppliers of hydroponic equipment, which typically rely on high density polyethylene pipes and trays along with PET and other food-grade plastics.
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