Plastics Pipeline Blog

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.

It’s summer, and the temperature is soaring outside. It’s also soaring inside many plastics manufacturing plants. We all know that high temperatures can cause health issues such as heat stroke and heat exhaustion, and we all want to keep our employees safe. But, how do we do that? You remember that old adage, “prevention is better than cure.” 

There has been debate in the last few years whether or not Employee Performance Reviews are still effective. Some companies have completely eliminated annual performance reviews while others continue to utilize them.