Last week we dropped off the result of our December food drive for the nearby Freedom Food Pantry. We collected more than 650 pounds of food, all in the pantry’s high need categories. That’s more than 10 pounds for every PPC team member!
The format and organization of the drive was proposed by Elizabeth from our IF1 crew. She’s pictured here, also giving the pantry director a check from PPC to go along with the food donation. Thanks and well done Elizabeth!
“It’s supposed to be hard. If it wasn’t hard, everyone would do it. The hard… is what makes it great.” – Tom Hanks as Jimmy Dugan in A League of Their Own
At PPC, all we do is the hard stuff. We specialize in facial tissue, the smallest of the tissue categories and the hardest to make. It’s a bit crazy, kind of like Jimmy. It’s also why we’re so unique.
Unrelated, but also true from Jimmy – “There’s no crying in baseball!”
“All things will be produced in superior quantity and quality, and with greater ease, when each man works at a single occupation, in accordance with his natural gifts, and at the right moment, without meddling with anything else.” – Plato
At PPC we choose to focus exclusively on facial tissue. It’s a niche, as the smallest category in the tissue industry. It’s also the hardest to do well. We choose to focus because converting facial tissue well requires it.
This a new display in our conference room. While we look to future opportunities, we recognize those from our past who were critical to where we are today.
We’re pet and kid-friendly at PPC. Amelia (5yo) put this on Jeff Anderson’s office door recently. Jeff is a bit disappointed in the compliance with the new policy so far…
These five beautiful Autumn Blaze Maples in front of our plant were part of ten trees planed in 2012 for our 10th anniversary. They’ve grown with the company since then. The other five trees are different species on another part of our lot. Four of those look good, but not as strong as the Maples, and one has always struggled. We’re proud of all ten and the first ten years of PPC they represent. They are also representative that our growth hasn’t been a straight line. There have been struggles and failures and we’re still here, with the trees, looking up and forward to the future.
Remember and Honor
This nation will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave.
Facial Tissue, in its current form, turns 100 in exactly two months from today. On June 12, 1924 Kimberly Clark Corporation first marketed Kleenex Brand Facial Tissues. As The Facial Tissue Specialists, we don’t even want to think about what we’d be doing without this momentous event.
