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thermo-forming; we do briquetting; we’re getting into
injection molding. We also do a lot of compounding
and that’s an area that we use to make our own dif-
ferent materials for our customers. So there’s just a
wide range of technologies that really sets us apart
and helps us problem-solve for our customers.”
Last year, when Business View Magazine spoke to
Christian Herrild, Teel Plastics’ Director of Sales and
Marketing, we were informed that, this year, the com-
pany’s focus would be on training and investing in its
people. Thompson reports on those programs’ prog-
ress: “We’ve invested a lot of money in our training
program,” he begins. “We set up a training matrix for
each of our employees. We lay out a roadmap that
says, ‘This is what we’re going to help you train on to
get to the next level.’ We want to build that roadmap so
that people see, when they come in, what they need to
do in order to advance within the company - not only in
skill, but in pay and knowledge of the process.
“We also bring a lot of trainers in,” Thompson contin-
ues. “We’ve got a grant from the State of Wisconsin,
this year, and we have a couple of training programs
