A Plant Within A Plant?

The Future Being Built Today

Leveraging the knowledge of a seasoned, stable workforce, Plastics Color Corporation is pioneering the Plant Within a Plant concept, which creates a research and production environment that anticipates how the industry will actually function five years from today. Just as Walt Disney once fashioned The World of Tomorrow at his theme park, PCC has created the colorant company of the future within its own walls.

To do that, PCC interviewed its top customers in the food and pharmaceutical packaging and the medical-device industry. The questions posed were direct if daring:

Where are you going in the next five years?

And what are the customers demanding of you?

Veteran PCC associates were actually sent to customers’ operations to gain first-hand knowledge of production and shipping procedures. With that market intelligence, PCC assessed where it wanted to be and what it had to accomplish today to remain the leader in the market tomorrow.

Then it actually created cutting-edge production and other procedures inside PCC, relying on long-time leaders in the company to oversee all P&L, QA and maintenance responsibilities while mentoring the newer ranks of associates. Ultimately, these journeyman PCC associates will be the leaders of the facility or transfer to another facility at which they can share their knowledge.

A Customer-Centered Company

Phase I of the Plant Within a Plant represents a significant investment in PCC’s philosophy of being the customer-centered company. That philosophy generated a return on the initial investment in less than a year.