We make all polyethylene, a little bit of polypropylene and copolymer.

We make high-density, low-density polyethylene, polypropylene and copolymer, as well as ultra-high molecular weight polyethylenes here.

Okay, that sounds awesome.

But what does any of it mean?

Here at Mitsubishi Chemical Group in Scranton, we make sheets and rods and profiles of plastic materials of different grades.

We take pride in being not just making plastic, but making the best plastic.

What do you tell people when you say you work at Mitsubishi Chemical?

I tell them that we touch everything, period.

A lot of times used in everything from your cutting boards at your local deli.

So if you go to a Subway, the cutting board is made out of high-density polyethylene made here in Scranton, Pennsylvania.

All of your Costco's around the country, their freezers and doors and walls are lined with materials made right here in Scranton, Pennsylvania, where this was also where it was developed.

The majority of our raw materials are brought in by our rail cars that are vacuum conveyed into our silos, stored in our silos till we need to use them.

And from there, they're vacuum conveyed from our silos directly to our processing line.

Everything starts, in my department, starts with pellets, just little pellets.

Pellets are brought in from our silos into our feed hoppers and then dropped into the barrel of the screw extruder.

These screws that you see behind you here are the screws that advance those pellets as they're heated through the barrel and softened and melted.

Then pushed out through a die that spreads the material out for whatever gauge we're running.

And then they go up and around the cooling polishing rolls, which will make a smooth surface.

And then it cools as it gets down to roll, and then you can set your width and your length for it.

This really encompasses what we do as an organization.

We try our best to replace metal and stainless steel with polymers.

So you can't really see it in the video, but if you hold it, you'll see that this weighs about one-seventh of the weight of this.

You can imagine how much energy is being saved.

Gasoline fuel is being saved by lowering the weight of specific components.

This was a dosing piston for baby food.

So on a single piece of equipment, this was, they had 16 of these basically going up, grabbing something, bringing it down, spinning it, and allowing for it to move on to part two of the manufacturing process.

Whereas we replaced it with one of our materials, cutting that weight by a seventh of the weight.

Now it does the exact same thing, but uses a fraction of the energy to actually process the baby food itself.

Mitsubishi Chemical is the green chemical company.

We strive more and more on a daily basis to drive more sustainability into the chemical industry and ourselves.

We've been zero waste to landfill here at the facility for going on five years now, and have a goal for carbon neutrality by 2035.

We run off of 100% renewable energy.

The Scranton operations actually started in 1950 as the Scranton Plastic Laminating Corporation, and then in 2017 became Mitsubishi Chemical Group.

We are here in Scranton.

We're also the North American Logistics Center for Mitsubishi Chemical Americas as well as globally.

It all comes here, and then we distribute out to our customers from here.

We ship anywhere from four to six million pounds of plastics a month.

And what makes Scranton a great location for our North American Logistics Center is our interstate system.

We're centrally located to access 81, 80, 380, 84, the turnpike.

This facility is the backbone of our organization, built on the shoulders of the people that work here.

And they ask me, well, is it a good job?

And I would say, well, if I'm here 30 years, it must be a good job.

The culture has really changed.

We went from a culture of really being driven by production output to a family culture, a culture of caring, a culture of sustainability, a culture of safety.

It's a family-sustained job.

I have a lot of friends that work here.

They all have families.

We all raise families.

And when it comes down to it, it's all about families.

So a lot of the people you work with here, they feel like family.

The management, everybody just feels like they're part of your family.