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THE ISLANDER, DECEMBER 6, 2010, PAGE 7
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acres donated by the mayor of Bruns
wick and “other patriotic citizens,”
according to the March 1, 1911 edi
tion of The Brunswick News.
The plant was built for $250,000
and began operation in October of
1911.
Hercules Powder Co., a spin off
of DuPont Co., was formed in 1913
and purchased the Brunswick plant
from Yaryan in 1920.
The Brunswick plant was expand
ed in 1926 when Hercules patented a
new rosin refining process and Pex-
ite® and Belro® production began.
The plant continued to grow dur
ing the 1940s and World War II.
In November of 2008 Hercules
Inc. and the plant became a whol
ly owned subsidiary of Ashland,
Inc. Then in January of this year
the business was sold to TorQuest
Partners of Tornoto, Canada before
being purchased by Pinova.
Inviting a group of local busi
ness leaders for lunch and a plant
tour last week, Bookbinder said,
“As investors, we want to be part of
this community and we are working
hard to be a long term contributor
to this area.”
“Our plan is to grow the plant
and company and maintain a global
leadership position by investing in
our people and facility,” said Book
binder.
“With respect to investing in our
people,” Bookbinder explained, “we
have a relationship with Quickstart,
the employment related state agen
cy, and with Altamaha Technical
College. We’re looking forward to
working with with Altamaha Tech’s
president Lorette Hoover and her
staff in this initiative to train our
employees.”
“We’re also investing in our plant,”
said Bookbinder, “many of those are
visible signs of the investment by
sprucing up the plant’s appearance
and landscaping along with a lot of
internal improvements.”
“This year the plant was licensed
by the Georgia Department of Agri
culture as a ‘food manufacturing
facility’,” said Bookbinder, “We’re
the only people in this particular
industry that have this designa
tion.”
“The board of directors has already
approved a $9 million investment in
the plant for next year,” Bookbinder
explained, “Part of that will be a
renovation of the packaging facil
ity. And it will be the first year of
a multi-year investment program
which will total $25 million.”
“This is a ‘green plant’,” Book
binder continued, “100% of our
products are derived from renew
able resources, pine trees and citrus
products. We produce 30% our own
electricity and 100% of our steam
from bio-mass. We use no natural
gas for steam production. What you
see coming from the one chimney is
nothing more than water vapor.”
“We value the community as a
stakeholder,” said Bookbinder, “and
we understand that this company is
really important for this community
and we are concerned about its his
toric and daunting legacy.”
Pat Grozier, who has been at
the Brunswick plant for 25 years
and is now the Director of Opera
tions, piggy backed off Bookbinder’s
comments saying, “Pinova’s values
are to respect and treat all stake
holders fairly, to comply with all
laws, regulations and social norms.
Other values include knowledge,
common sense, open communication
and trust.”
“All of our products are based
from natural feedstocks and a sig-
nificat portion of our energy is from
renewable bio-mass,” said Grozier.
“Our safety and environmental
performance is excellent and busi
ness has outperformed expectation
by over 30%,” Grozier told the after
noon crowd, “We’re working hard
to improve our appearance. We’re
working on the front entrance this
year and Hwy. 17 next year.”
“Hiring continues at the plant,”
said Grozier, “we started the year
with 202 employees and will end
the year with 226. We will increase
that by 10% next year raising the
number of employees to 247.”
Pinova products are used in a
wide variety of products from sports
drinks to adhesives to fragrances
in perfumes and candles, and even
asphalt additives for road paving.
Tullos was right, Hercules has
been a big part of this community
for a long time, especially for those
of us whose father’s and mother’s,
sister’s and brother’s worked at the
plant over the years.
And by way of substantiating
Tullos’s point, 1964 Red Terror tight
end-linebacker Nick Mavromat is
quoted in The Red Terrors saying,
“For as long as I can remember,
going back to youth football, the dim
lights, which we were accustomed
to, and the smell of Hercules on Fri
day nights, which we were also used
to, were considered to be home field
advantages.”
It seems Pinova plans to continue
giving Brunswick the home field
advantage. □
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pedestrian crossings across Lanier
Blvd. at Holly and Ash Streets. He
said pedestrians crossing Lanier
Blvd. to get to Howard Coffin Park
had to dodge cars.
Jason Herring came to the meet
ing to discuss the noise in both
the historic downtown residential
areas.
He said vehicles with loud boom
ing radios and loud exhausts plus
barking dogs late at night made liv
ing and working at home difficult.
He suggested that citations or
fines be given to those with the loud
exhaust and music coming from
their cars. He also suggested anti
barking collars for the dogs. □
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