Plastics Pipeline Blog

“Almost everyone who leads, works for, or interacts with a manufacturing company can benefit from seeing a factory firsthand,” wrote David M. Upton and Stephen E. Macadam in their article, “Why (and How) to Take a Plant Tour."

Three top thought leaders from the automotive industry, Daron Gifford, Jeff Schuster, and Jeff Stout, were guest speakers at the Future of Automotive Seminar hosted by Team 1 Plastics.

Team 1 Plastics is pleased to periodically feature Guest Bloggers to share their perspectives of the plastics industry on Plastics Pipeline. We thank today’s Guest Blogger, Steve Tomaszewski, Senior Vice President & General Manager for Entec Polymers, one of Team 1’s quality suppliers.

Team 1 Plastics is pleased to periodically feature Guest Bloggers to share their perspectives of the plastics industry on Plastics Pipeline. We thank today’s Guest Blogger, Anthony (Tony) Masternak of Panalpina, Inc., one of Team 1’s quality freight suppliers.

For almost 20 years, Team 1 Plastics, a plastic injection molding company for the transportation industry, has utilized an Open-Book management philosophy with its workers. Craig Carrel shares the history of how the Open Book policy became a critical part of Team 1’s culture.

Problems – we’ve all got them – problems in our professional lives and problems in our personal lives. Maybe Benjamin Franklin should have added “problems” alongside death and taxes as another certainty of life. If we’re going to be successful, those problems need to be solved.