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Michael Patterson, Taylor Rigging supervisor, and Andy White, rigger, remove the plastic from a new sanding machine they unloaded from a semi onto the production floor at Grandview Cabinetry Thursday. The 12,000 pound piece of equipment required a special fork lift to handle it.
Michael Patterson, Taylor Rigging supervisor, and Andy White, rigger, remove the plastic from a new sanding machine they unloaded from a semi onto the production floor at Grandview Cabinetry Thursday. The 12,000 pound piece of equipment required a special fork lift to handle it.
Employees of Taylor Rigging, using a heavy duty forklift, carefully unloaded a new, massive commercial belt sander from the back of a semi Thursday morning onto the production floor at Grandview Cabinetry.
Grandview Director of Kansas Operations Tim Price said the 12,000 pound belt sander and supporting equipment are a $400,000 investment in the plant and the community.
Price said this is only the most recent investment the Stanley Tidwell family has made since purchasing the company from the Zetmeir family in 2018. Two years ago, the company invested just under $2 million to install a state of the art paint line, designed specifically for the Parsons plant.
“It’s another thing of the company investing in this facility for this community.”
“And this is another component of the quality standard of our product that has really improved from where Grandview used to be,” Price said. “I don’t want it to sound like I’m saying anything towards the way Grandview used to be, but we’ve improved the quality aspect considerably.”
The new sander, twice the size of a normal industrial machine, will allow Grandview to double its production while getting a top of the line finish sand on their wood products, for which demand is high.
Price said the plan is still to hire another 60 employees to fill their open positions.
“Right now we’re building 900 cabinets a day. With the market and our orders we could go up to 1,200 cabinets a day if we had the employees,” Price said. “What is holding us back today is not having the employees.”
Like other industries in the area with the COVID-19 pandemic, Grandview has increased its wages by about $2 an hour to entice people to work there and retain the workers they have. Currently, between all three facilities, Grandview has 280 employees. They need to be at 350.
Price pointed out to the production floor and showed all ages of people working in different sections of the plant. He said they strive to provide job opportunities for anyone willing to work, no matter ages, and they fit the various jobs to each person’s physical ability. So, he said, younger people may be in much more physical positions, and some of the older workers will do jobs like quality control, which are not labor intensive. Presently, they have jobs available in every area across the platform.
“We have a job for any style of worker,” Price said. “We have such a diverse workforce; we have a job for pretty much anyone.”
Right after the Tidwell family purchased the company, the family brought someone in to run it who never really connected with the community. That is, until about six months ago, when they made a change and put Price in charge.
“I’ve been with the company for 30 years. I’m local and not only am I grounded in this community, it means something personal to me for this company to grow and benefit this community,” Price said.
Pointing to the new equipment, Price said it is just one more show that the Tidwell family is invested in the employees and the community, too, and they are not going anywhere.
“We’re here for the long haul,” he said.
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