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August 2020 Anniversaries

by | Jul 30, 2020 | Leaderviews

August 2020 Anniversaries It is time to celebrate August anniversaries! This month we’d like to highlight Curt Dixon who 43 years ago joined the KEP team right out of high school. Beginning his career with KEP in the latex tubing dip room, he transitioned to...

Meet Destiny Gordon

by | Jul 30, 2020 | Leaderviews

Destiny Gordon joined KEP at our Mogadore facility in 2019. She is an Assembler and Extrusion Operator. Her tasks include coiling and assembling medical tubing and clamps to be used in hospitals and other health care facilities. She enjoys coming to work each day and...

Thriving for 60 Years

by | Jul 30, 2020 | Leaderviews

Thriving for 60 Years There has been a great shift in manufacturing since 1960 – the year Kent Elastomer Products first began to operate under the name Kent Latex Products. Since that time, many American plants have closed or moved operations offshore. Not KEP.  We...

July 2020 Anniversaries

by | Jul 20, 2020 | Leaderviews

July 2020 Anniversaries While many of us were caring for Pet Rocks (which were all the rage 45 years ago), Darlene Hines and Shirley Shrock were making a much greater commitment – joining our KEP team! With a combined experience of over 200 years, we are so proud of...

Meet Cristal Westfall

by | Jul 20, 2020 | Leaderviews

For over 25 years, Cristal Westfall has been a team member at our Winesburg facility. Currently, Cristal works as an inspector in custom dipping and doubles as a line coach on our latex tubing strip line. Cristal goes above and beyond for our team. During the...

June 2020 Anniversaries

by | Jun 9, 2020 | Leaderviews

June 2020 Anniversaries Captain & Tennille was at the top of the charts and JAWS was in theaters when Karen McRobie joined the KEP team 45 years ago. While this has many of us feeling nostalgic – Karen’s unwavering commitment to KEP is one thing that has...