{"id":16800,"date":"2022-03-18T14:19:37","date_gmt":"2022-03-18T14:19:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hofferplastics.com\/?p=16800"},"modified":"2025-11-12T10:47:36","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T16:47:36","slug":"hoffer-plastics-is-manufacturing-a-change-in-perception","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hofferplastics.com\/leadership-values\/hoffer-plastics-is-manufacturing-a-change-in-perception\/","title":{"rendered":"Hoffer Plastics is Manufacturing a Change in Perception"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Manufacturing presents a great career opportunity for post-high school men and women, but how to learn more and overcome its myths and misperceptions?<\/p>\n<p>Hoffer Plastics saw the need and decided to break the mold. Literally.<\/p>\n<p>The South Elgin-based custom injection molder launched its Break the Mold initiative last year with the plan to prove to youngsters entering the workforce that this ain&#8217;t your granddaddy&#8217;s factory.<\/p>\n<p>Break the Mold is an informational partnership driven by Hoffer Plastics with School District U-46 and its five high schools: Elgin, Larkin, Streamwood, South Elgin and Bartlett. The impetus was a pre-COVID-19 diminishment in job applications, which increased after the pandemic was established.<\/p>\n<p>Hoffer hosted more than 30 school counselors from those schools in two sessions in January to give them a sense of what they wanted students to understand about manufacturing, like job growth, diversity of jobs, flexible scheduling and compensation.<\/p>\n<p>That led to three groups of Larkin students &#8212; about 20 students apiece &#8212; who visited between the end of February and the most recent visit, March 9. Another group of Elgin students will visit April 8.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyherald.com\/business\/20220317\/hoffer-plastics-is-manufacturing-a-change-in-perception\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Manufacturing presents a great career opportunity for post-high school men and women, but how to learn more and overcome its myths and misperceptions? Hoffer Plastics saw the need and decided to break the mold. Literally. 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