1.9.12 – Visit Booth 2944 at AHR Expo 2012
JBC Technologies will be exhibiting at the 2012 AHR Expo January 23-25 at McCormick Place in Chicago, IL please stop by and visit us, we will be located in Booth 2944
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1.3.12 – JBC Passes ISO Recertification Audit
From December 14-16, ISO auditors were on-hand performing a scheduled audit of JBC’s processes and quality systems for recertification. Over these three days only one minor non-conformance was revealed which was corrected in the days following the audit. JBC has secured ISO Certification for another 3 years, something we’ve been proud to hold for well over 10 years. Our customers can be assured a long-standing tradition of robust quality practices will continue to be in place and improved upon for years to come.
At one point, when jokingly asked to produce an MSDS for “Pledge”, our Safety and Training Director instantly provided one from our database. The auditor couldn’t remember anyone actually being able to produce this MSDS in any of his past audits!
12.15.11 – JBC Welcomes Mark Swanson
JBC continues to grow and the newest member of the JBC team is Mark Swanson. He has joined us as Senior Sales Specialist and will be focusing on new business development.
Mark comes to us with 17 years of experience in the adhesives, specialty foam-tapes, and converting industries. Mark has worked for various manufacturers of these products including MACtac, Gaska Tape Inc, and Ivex Paper Co. Mark worked with JBC Technologies as a supplier during his tenure at Gaska Tape so he is familiar with both our capabilities and our corporate culture.
Mark is very excited about this new opportunity and tells us: “I’m extremely happy to be with JBC for a number of reasons. Number one, the culture and core values match up perfectly with how I work. Number two, JBC is a family-oriented company and that’s important to me. Lastly, I feel not only valued but also appreciated here at JBC. We have a great story to tell because we’re much more than ‘Just another converter’. I’m thrilled to be able to tell that story.”
12.12.11 – ‘Tis the Season!
In keeping with the Christmas “Giving” spirit, JBC made the option available to our employees to give gifts to those in need on a volunteer basis. Our Human Resources department worked with Lorain County Child Services to collect gifts for children in need. On the first trip back from LCCS, we brought back a list of items for 25 children and within minutes, the entire list was spoken for and a second trip was scheduled!
When it was all said and done, JBC associates helped make the Holidays happy for 55 children. Lorain County Child Services was blown away by the generosity of our employees and realized what it means when we say one of our Core Values is, “We Care”. Thank you to all of the JBC associates who helped make the Holidays a little brighter for 55 children in Lorain County!
11.30.11 – JBC 2012 Mouse Pads have arrived!!
In the three years since we first introduced the annual JBC mousepad, it has gained more and more fans each year. It’s at the point where people that have received one in the past start calling in November to reserve one for the upcoming year. Well here’s your chance to get on “the list” and get your very own JBC Mousepad.
Send JBC a request for quote and all valid inquiries will receive a free mouse pad!
11.23.11 – Expansion Continues!
11/23/11 – Construction continues on JBC Technologies’ 40,000 square foot expansion. Despite record rainfall over the past few months, the expansion is on track to be finished February 2012. Stay tuned for more updates!
10.14.2011 – JBC Breaks Ground on Expansion
Site work
JBC Technologies has broken ground on the expansion to our North Ridgeville facility. The expansion will bring a much needed 40,000 square feet of manufacturing and storage space, additional parking, and loading docks. Construction is expected to be complete in early February of 2012. Stay tuned for construction updates!!
7.21.2011 – Expansion a positive sign for city’s economic growth
The future looks bright for one North Ridgeville business, which is also a positive sign for the community as a whole, city officials said at the July 12 Planning Commission meeting.
JBC Technologies, located at 7887 Bliss Parkway, will soon attach to a facility it built several years ago a 40,000-square-foot addition. More parking is also planned. Joe Bliss, owner of Bliss Investments and JBC, purchased the parcels at the end of Bliss Parkway. He indicated the land is located by the Ohio Turnpike and a special development lot across the street, which remains vacant, and also some baseball fields.
Planning Commission City Council Liaison Bob Olesen asked if the expansion will bring jobs to the city. Bliss said he couldn’t speculate, but jobs probably will be created.
“We haven’t spent a lot of time looking at how many (jobs this could create),” he said after the meeting. “But most likely, we will be adding jobs.”
JBC Technologies is a die-cutting company that buys raw materials like foam, felt, insulation and other soft non-metallic products, and uses steel roll dies to cut the materials into various shapes. Bliss said JBC Technologies has been in business since 1988 and began in North Ridgeville on Cook Road, but they have grown and need additional room. At one point, they moved to Elyria, but the landlocked facility they moved to did not Read more…
12.28.2009 – JBC Technologies manufactures new recipe for success: Surviving 2009
Joe Bliss, president of JBC Technologies, Inc., used an array of strategies to save his North Ridgeville company from plummeting sales in 2009. (photo by Thomas Ondrey, The Plain Dealer)
NORTH RIDGEVILLE, Ohio — Joe Bliss describes the thumping array of machines on his plant floor as cookie cutters, pounding out and pressing all manner of seals, gaskets and heat insulators. So what happens when the cookie crumbles? Bliss, president of JBC Technologies Inc. in North Ridgeville, found a new recipe to keep his company afloat in 2009 and to position it for growth in 2010. Like so many, he cut deep into his work force to offset steep revenue losses when orders fell off a cliff late in 2008. But he also gained new customers, and diversified his product offerings, with the acquisition of smaller, failed competitors. He expanded capacity by buying bargain-basement equipment. And he continued to invest in an entirely new business that could prove fruitful next year.
Bliss, a balding, no-nonsense executive and entrepreneur, counts himself among corporate survivors of the worst recession in a lifetime. His 54,000-square-foot plant is among thousands of companies that constitute the region’s manufacturing sector. In Northeast Ohio, the years-long slide in manufacturing jobs continued unabated during the recession, due partly to dependence on the foundering auto industry. JBC counts on the auto sector for about 12 percent of its work, Bliss said. He once had hoped to gain more business from the Detroit Big Three automakers. Now he’s Read more…
