January 15, 2024- The Redline Plastics team is proud to announce that the company has been named a finalist for the prestigious “Processor of the Year” award for 2023 from Plastics News. Processor of the Year candidates are judged on seven criteria: financial performance, quality, customer relations, employee relations, environmental performance, industry/public service and technological innovation.
PTI Engineered Plastics, Radius Packaging and Redline Plastics LLC are finalists for the 2023 Plastics News Processor of the Year award.
All four companies will be recognized at the 2024 Plastics News Executive Forum, March 11-13 in Clearwater Beach, Fla., where the Processor of the Year winner will be revealed. The companies also will be profiled in PN‘s March 25 issue. The company that takes home the 2023 Processor of the Year trophy will be the 29th in the history of the award. The 2022 winner was Teel Plastics LLC, a Baraboo, Wis.-based extruder and injection molder that specializes in regulated products that require close-tolerance manufacturing.
Here is Redline’s Plastic News Profile on the Nomination!
2023 was a big year for the team at Redline Plastics. The Manitowoc, Wis.-based rotational molder and thermoformer started the year with a bang by being named a PN Best Place to Work for the third year in a row.
A few weeks later, Redline was named a finalist for the 2022 PN Processor of the Year award. At the last Executive Forum, Redline took home the PN Excellence Award for Employee Relations.
Then, for the big news: In March, the company added to the Redline family by acquiring a second facility in Hartwell, Ga. Adding the Georgia facility provides key advantages: A strategic location in the Southeast that provides flexibility for customers, supply chain synergy to reduce costs and additional rotomolding capacity.
Company officials say integrating the Georgia team into its existing operations has been a rewarding process that’s paying off to customers and employees — although at Redline, workers are called ninjas, not employees.
Redline’s self-described “outrageous cultural behaviors” include the phrases Get Amped, Be a Ninja and Don’t Be a Jackass, which emphasize honesty and good communication. Redline officials note that their 14 cultural behaviors guide everything they do and closely correspond to the Processor of the Year criteria.
Redline Plastics has been one of the fastest-growing North American rotomolders in recent years, and it is active in the community, winning awards for being a recovery-friendly employer.
Source: Don Loepp, Plastic News Full Article