Com-Pac International Inc

10/25/2024

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08/04/2021

Com-Pac is looking to dispose of these pallets. Some are complete, some are missing boards and need some repair work. They are a mix of various sizes. If you are interested and would like to pick some of these up free of charge stop by or call 618-529-2421 and ask to speak with Josh Franklin our traffic manager.

Com-Pac International is a fully integrated extruder, printer and manufacturer of custom plastic bag

06/11/2020

: Com-Pac International Inc is getting it done! In addition to producing medical testing products, they donated +1,500 masks and launched a pop-up manufacturing line to employ residents of Carbondale, Illinois and Southern Illinois. Thank you 🙌🏾 for uplifting our communities!

04/02/2020

As you know, yesterday Governor Pritzker extended the shelter-in-place order for all residents of Illinois to run through April 30th. Com-Pac continues to be designated as an “Essential Service Business” under the Governor’s order. This means that Com-Pac will continue with normal operations through this extended quarantine period.
While I say “normal” many of you have noticed that our operations have been much busier than normal during this last two weeks of the COVID-19 crisis. So Don and I would like to give a great big shout-out to all our workers for your commitment and dedication to our mission of manufacturing essential medical and food packaging products as our collective contribution to helping our country get through this difficult challenge.
By way of information, we have seen dramatic increases in our shipments of specimen bags, specimen shipping containers (especially our Infecon cooler kits which are used to ship frozen COVID-19 specimens to the testing labs), Alcon Tray Covers and Shake and Bake bags. All these increases are directly related to our country’s virus-related demand for the essential packaging products which we manufacture. While we all certainly wish that our increased business was not due to the virus and are all prayerful that this crisis will end quickly, Don and I take very seriously our company’s responsibility to fulfill this new demand profile, while doing our best to protect the health and safety of all our workers.
As such, we will continue the policies which I outlined in my previous COVID-19 Update including:
 Continuing to employ our personnel whose full-time responsibility is to clean and disinfect bathrooms, breakrooms, computer keyboards and monitors, door handles, non-production work surfaces, etc.;
 Keeping workstations supplied with cleaning supplies for periodic wipe down throughout each shift;
 Discontinuation of all domestic and international travel;
 Restricting access to our facilities to employees only and only during their designated shifts;
 Sending home anyone symptoms of a cold or flu.
Effective this Monday, April 6th, we are implementing the following additional policies and procedures:
 A company-wide face mask policy which requires that all workers wear a face mask issued by Com-Pac while inside any and all Com-Pac facilities. This includes all production areas, restrooms, warehouse, loading dock, machine shop, offices, breakrooms, etc. You may remove your mask when outside of our buildings and during breaks and lunches in breakrooms so long as you try to maintain a safe social distance from your co-workers.
Gwen and all supervisors will have a supply of masks to distribute Monday morning and supervisors are asked to see that second, third and weekend shift supervisors have masks to distribute to their personnel.
As you have undoubtedly seen on the news, masks are very hard to come-by but Com-Pac has managed to purchase a limited supply for our workers, some local healthcare institutions and distributors, so we are asking that you take one mask per week unless it becomes damaged at which time you can exchange it for a new one.
Don and I realize that this is going to be an inconvenience for everyone, but we believe this is a necessary additional step to protect one another and that you will be seeing more and more public mask-wearing initiatives all around the country over the next several weeks as the crisis continues;
 Tomorrow we are meeting with a commercial company that offers Coronavirus mitigation, clean-up and disinfection services inside our facilities in the event any of our employees is diagnosed with COVID-19. If we learn of someone with this diagnosis it will be necessary, at a minimum, to temporarily suspend operations in the production area involved and any area the individual may have visited while infected, while the commercial service conducts disinfecting operations. We will provide more information on specific procedures to be followed after we have met with them tomorrow.
Remember these important points we have stressed previously:
> Please, please, please call-in to notify us and stay home at the first sign of any symptoms. These include:
 Fever
 Dry cough
 Shortness of breath
 Fatigue
These symptoms usually appear approximately 14 days after initial exposure to the disease;
 If you have these symptoms you can call the Southern Illinois Healthcare COVID-19 Hotline at 844-988-7800 for more information;
 If you have been exposed to anyone with the above symptoms please contact Gwen for further instructions;
 Do not leave home unnecessarily except for essential errands and follow instructions to maintain separation of at least 6 feet from other people as much as possible;
 Wash your hands frequently for at least 2 minutes.
Thank you for your cooperation and please continue to practice good hygiene and stay healthy!

03/25/2020

Inside a Carbondale-based manufacturing plant, staff worked quickly last week to meet growing worldwide demand for medical specimen shipping bags. The bags are needed for shipping patient specimens for COVID-19

03/22/2020

Message from Greg Sprehe President of
Com-Pac International.

As Victoria and I are preparing to attend our church’s service this morning via live stream on You-Tube I thought I would share some thoughts on the status of Com-Pac operations as we continue into the period of “shelter-in-place” as declared by Governor Pritzker.

On Friday Don and I handed out a letter to all employees which outlined the circumstances of Com-Pac operations if Com-Pac were to be designated as an “Essential Service Business” under the Governor’s order. However, since our largest worker attendance is Monday through Thursday many of our workers didn’t receive this letter. If you are interested in reviewing it you will find a link to it below. The information in this post will serve to update the info in my previous letter.
So you’ll know, Com-Pac is indeed an Essential Service Business as described under the Department of Homeland Security and Governor Pritzker’s direct order. The specific references granting such status is that we manufacture food packaging as well as medical products, most specifically products used to transport COVID-19 specimens. First and most importantly, I want everyone to know that Don and I take the designation as an Essential Service Business very seriously. The Com-Pac team has a particularly important role to play in times like these by providing packaging products which our country needs during this crisis. By way of evidence of this, we have received notice that our chicken bag customers are receiving 2 – 3 times as many orders for their products since folks are stocking-up on in-home cooking products, and our medical distributors orders are already 25% ahead of last year at this time primarily because of their need for our specimen shippers, two of which we launched three weeks ago specifically for transporting COVID-19 specimens.

Of primary importance is our responsibility to insure that our workers have a safe and healthy work environment to carry on our daily functions, and secondly that our customers are reassured that we intend to remain fully operational. As such I want to share some of the processes and procedures we have implemented in order to accomplish these priorities:

> We have hired a full-time individual whose only responsibility is to clean and disinfect bathrooms, breakrooms, computer keyboards and monitors, door handles, non-production work surfaces, etc. Her name is Stephanie so please make her feel welcome when you see her around the plant;

> We have met with our outside cleaning service and directed them to focus on cleaning and disinfecting work surfaces both at the beginning of their daily cleaning process as well as just before they leave in order to provide an additional margin of protection;

> We have supplied all workstations with cleaning solution and paper towels for periodic wipe down throughout each shift;
> We have halted all domestic and international travel;

> We have restricted access to our facilities only to employees during their designated shift and visitors are only allowed with an appointment which has been approved in advance, and they must complete a detailed questionnaire on their health and travel history;

> For the time being we are not permitting any family or friends to be on Com-Pac premises except to pick-up workers in the parking lots;

> We have communicated with our customers and distributors to assure them that we have not experienced any disruption or delays in receipt of raw materials and have we contacted all of our major suppliers to insure that we will be made aware of any potential disruptions well in advance.

Finally, I want to remind everyone that the very best way to get through these next few trying weeks successfully is to be vigilant of our own health status, potential exposures and actions if you suspect that you might have been exposed to someone with symptoms.

> Please, please, please call-in to notify us and stay home at the first sign of any symptoms. These include:

• Fever
• Dry cough
• Shortness of breath
• Fatigue

These symptoms usually appear approximately 14 days after initial exposure to the disease;

> Gwen has thermometers in her office if you think that you might have a fever;

> If you have these symptoms you can call the Southern Illinois Healthcare COVID-19 Hotline at 844-988-7800 for more information;

> If you have been exposed to anyone with the above symptoms please contact Gwen for further instructions;

> Do not leave home unnecessarily except for essential errands and follow instructions to maintain separation of at least 6 feet from other people as much as possible.

Once again, please be certain that Gwen has your cell number so that we can send out group text messages during the next few weeks to keep you informed and you can call the Winter Snow Line at 618-529-2421, option 3 (after the message) for information as we receive it. You can also continue to check the Com-Pac page for updates.

Until further notice all employees should report for their normal shift today (Sunday), tonight, and the rest of this week. If there is any change to this schedule we will let you know via text message and our page, and you should check the monitors throughout the plant or call the above number.

Thank you for your cooperation and please continue to practice good hygiene and stay healthy!

Letter to all our Employees - https://bit.ly/33Cthat
Letter to Customers and Distributers - https://bit.ly/3beRl5V

02/01/2018

Com-Pac International Inc is a great example of what is born, built and grown in Illinois. The company employs nearly 275 people in Carbondale, and their commitment to innovation landed them a NASA contract to provide products for the International Space Station.

We can create and grow more Com-Pacs by doing what Illinoisans want us to do. Halt the advance of taxes. Stop spending what we don’t have. Get our pensions under control. And give power back to the people.