Affirmative Industry
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| Monitoring the formatting line |
One of the nation’s most unique workplaces is located in north-east Columbia — ACT’s Affirmative Industry work site. At the center of the facility you’ll see and hear people at work.
On time. Focused. Productive.
At specific workstations, more than 40 individuals with disabilities invest their time and energy throughout the week regarding videotapes and computer diskettes. With a work ethic seldom seen, ACT clients join in the effort to convert “techno-trash” headed to the landfill into highly desirable office products.
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| Operating the labeling machine |
Through ACT’s relationship with national distributor GreenDisk, hundreds of thousands of computer disks return to the shelves of office product retailers, the federal government and other large customers. This unique business regenerates more than plastic. It regenerates lives.
There’s no slowdown of work in ACT’s Affirmative Industry Program. A recent large project involves the processing and sale of 150,000 new diskettes purchased by ACT.
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| Packing diskettes into 10-packs |
The affirmative industries program has been busy processing the new diskettes for several weeks. In addition to processing the diskettes, several jobs have been created because the new diskettes come fully packaged and must be opened by hand. The new work involves processing 10,000 disks a day on the duplicating machines.
ACT’s largest diskette client—GreenDisk— requires 5,000 disks be processed a day, or 110,000 diskettes a month. With the new work and GreenDisk’s order combined, two lines now run 16 hours a day. “It’s the first time in over a year that we’ve
run 16 hours a day,” says Don Lafferty, affirmative industry program director. “These are good jobs for adults with disabilities.”
Duplicating lines now running 16 hours a day.
