FROM WARREN’S DESK
I would like to thank each of you
for an outstanding Open House. We all
have to be proud of the review that we
received from our peers in the community,
I believe that very few people have
experienced as nice an open house or have
been allowed to tour a plant that is as
fine as the facility that we presently
enjoy. Your efforts in getting the plant
ready for presentation and the courtesy
and hospitality that the individuals who
were assisting in the open house displayed
is an asset to W & J RIVES and to the
community. Jeff and I really, sincerely appreciate the good works and effort
that you have put into this open house. I hope you were as proud as we were
to stand back and watch our family and friends, along with yours, go through
and admire our facility. It finally made all our hard work worthwhile.
Those goose bumps sure felt good!
Concerning our production, we are presently in an oversold situation;
which, I think we can come out of fairly rapidly. I would like to ask each
of you to solicit any people that you know who are interested in coming to
work for us. We could use some good operators immediately. I think all of
you are familiar with our requirements and v^at we look for in the people
that we hire. Keep this in mind, but if you know some people, we could use
them now.
For those of you who are not aware, we have added two Adler Automatic.
Back Pocket Setting machines. Once these machines are running, we hope to
run them two shifts a day. We should be able to generate more production
through the back pocket section to allow us to get more work to felling and
serging; which, should allow us to continue to improve the total output
through shipping.
As most of you are aware, we have had a horrendous problem with our
boiler. We just do not have enough steam to support the equipment that we
own. We have ordered a new boiler which will be installed sometime in
August.
Also, we have rented an additional warehouse right around the corner
behind High Point Fabrics, We will be moving all the piece goods out of
W & J RIVES to this warehouse to allow us to redesign our layout. Hopefully,
we can add machines and increase production. We are going to move the cut
ahead work on the "jakes" trucks and the in-process work that is stored
adjacent to the cutting room; so, that it will not be such a burden on the
service people and we can just have a neater, more organized work flow.
This will also allow us to have more room to sort the wash work to and from
the laundry.
We have a lot going on. Presently, we have many people moving in
many directions. We are embroidering pockets in three different embroidery
facilities. We are washing in two different laundries and we are pressing
in three off-site locations. As you can see, this keeps Randy and the
supervisors running just trying to keep up with what’s where, what needs
to go and what's coming back. I think we are doing an excellent job of
this and I commend each of them and you for the excellence of quality and