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run 80- to 90-million square-feet of product per month if it added a third shift. The company employs approximate- ly 180 who work on one of two 10-hour shifts Monday through Thursday, usually Friday and sometimes Saturday, depending on order volumes. Yes, an additional $30 million investment on the heels of the $10 million eight years ago for a family-owned in- dependent doing business in the remote Northeast cor- ner of Pennsylvania that Frysinger himself admits is in the “middle of nowhere.” More labor will be needed to staff the new machines and manage the growth; Tyoga is trying to hire approximately 12 employees to fill out its first and
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second shifts, not the easiest task given the demograph- ics of rural Pennsylvania but Frysinger knows how to keep his employees happy. In addition to a competitive salary and benefit package, the massive expansion included a new break room, complete with fresh options for food and beverages in a market café. In addition, all the restrooms in the facility are new or completely renovated; hourly em- ployees have access to all the same facilities as salaried workers and managers. Then, of course, there is benefit – and pleasure – of working on brand new or almost new equipment in a state-of-the-art facility. Growing With The Flow “The Isowa and the Hycorr were the two anchors we knew we needed to get to where we wanted to get long- term, but we knew we needed to change the overall flow of the plant to remove the bottlenecks that occurred by putting in one new piece of machinery at a time,” Frysinger says. “In modern box plants it’s all about flow and that’s
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