Extrusion blow molder Schoeneck Containers Inc. is having a busy year, welcoming a new owner and meeting burgeoning demand generated by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Patriot Medical Devices LLC is helping to protect poll workers from COVID-19 this election season with medical face masks the family business makes in Cape Girardeau, Mo.

For its entire 31-year history, Precise Mold has made money — “even in 2007, '08 and '09, it managed to eke out a small profit every year,” owner Don Dumoulin says.

When husband-and-wife team Kevin and Carole Chase founded Chase Plastic Services Inc. almost 24 years ago, “neither of us knew what we were doing,” Kevin Chase said in a recent phone interview. But they must have figured it out.

John Steger, president and owner of Kaston Fixtures && Design Group LLC, believes his employees enjoy working at the Dallas company because they are treated fairly and with respect.

What stands out most among Metro's long list of benefits is its “30/40” program. Employees work 30 hours but get paid for 40. Part-timers work 24 hours and get paid for 32.

International Plastics Inc. is a second-generation family business, with a potential member of the third generation working there, too.

Rockford, Ill.-based Industrial Molds has many veteran employees among its staff of 56. “The people who have stayed with the company have built the culture more than any master plan, The employees really do help each other and foster teamwork, getting things done.”

Part of the ePlastics's success comes from ensuring all employees understand their importance in achieving that success.

Appearing for the second time on Plastics News' Best Places to Work annual ranking is industrial machinery manufacturer CMD Corp. of Appleton, Wis.

“We look for the best people we can find and then create the environment to keep them. We have very low turnover.”