Are you slow, busy, steady? Our plant has never been slower, yet management does not seem worried. Just curious if it is a company wide thing or just specific to our location. I do not want to name our plant or products. It has the ominous feeling of a plant closure in the works to me. No mention of layoffs yet. We ship product to both industrial and consumer markets.
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Our large plant is losing its volumes from June. Looks like another year of poor volumes. More shutdowns coming soon to conserve energy savings.
Ours is dead, no urgency anymore, caught up due to lack of sales, obsession over safety. Manage still bullies employees to get fired or quit. Very depressed, lifeless morale. Employees dread going to work daily. Great times. Great employer. Would recommend.
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Probably too much detail as it is, if folks want to retain anonymity. I can guess which EMD plant just from info given. And the small plant that services only one division - not many of those left either.
EMD has such a big TVOS?? What plant is that?
TVOS around 25 million monthly.
How big is your EMD plant TVOS?
Once again instead of answering the question people go on a rant. I feel really sorry for you sad angry people. I will answer the question our plant is busy and we are part of EMD we have been hiring for months now.
Coming from another small plant of ~75 employee's that services a single division there's similar feelings here of possible shutdown. We've had backorder drop from ~1 mil to next to nothing over the course of a few weeks of minimal production and manufacturing lines being down for multiple days. Only way backorder drops when you make far less is your customers are ordering less.
I hope there are more plant shutdowns
If COVID taught us anything, it was that local supply chain was important. Being dependent on China or Mexico is not a solid plan to put all your eggs in those baskets. The amount of knock off 3M products coming out of China now is crazy. But hey, at least some execs got a bonus making those “tough” decisions.
Is the total plant locations now around ~150 globally? Seriously it needs to go down to 100 to be truly efficient for such sales level with little growth
The closure of plants and further layoffs is a path chosen by 3M when innovation was abandoned in favor of cost control.
Now that 3M has abandoned the tradition of making premium products in favor of offshoring manufacturing and selling a higher volume of mediocre products, expect to see more plant closures.
There's no advantage to domestic manufacturing if you're not innovating and you're not selling a premium product. You're just paying higher prices for labor to process the same things China is making for pennies on the dollar.
You only make it here when skill and quality matters, and 3M doesn't care about that anymore.
OP> hopefully you are not referring to any of the Top37 plants. Otherwise this company is in more trouble
Question for the original post, what plant are you referring to that has never been slower?
More plant shutdowns coming from second half of this year. Business teams are starting to pull out the Q3 orders. Sit tight.