Richmond County COVID-19 Heroes: CorTek donates cartons to food banks, provides to other local companies

Since 1989, CorTek has been providing customers with solutions to their packaging needs, with a state-of-the-art design center. CorTek offers its customers fourth-day delivery on all standard products, but can deliver in 24 hours in an emergency.

CorTek manufactures hundreds of items such as small to jumbo cartons, assembled partitions, corrugated plastic containers, honeycomb products, displays, military packaging, automotive packaging and much more.

President/Owner Lynwood Dunn is a huge supporter of the county and demonstrates this belief in a variety of ways in the community since the inception of CorTek over the past 30-plus years. The organization was instrumental in the opening of Discovery Place Kids in Rockingham. Furthermore, CorTek is vital in sustaining other local industries, such as Big Rock Sports, Hood Packaging, and Plastek by providing packaging solutions. The packaging powerhouse also holds numerous national contracts to supply packaging solutions, including one with the Department of Defense. 

Jeff Standridge, who is responsible for production coordination at CorTek, expressed his pride in the organization’s response to the global pandemic and listed the following means in which CorTek is supporting the community during this time:

• Not laying off staff: We have maintained our full workforce during this difficult time, and continue to run as an essential corporation. Even our temp labor force has not been reduced." 
• Donating overrun cartons to local food banks to aid in the distribution of supplies and sustenance to those impacted.
• Support the military and Homeland Security by continuing to provide packaging to all our key government/automotive contracts. Also support local essential businesses ... by continuing to run as normally for them. 

We are so thankful to have CorTek in Richmond County and proud to be the home base for an organization that plays a key role providing products to guarantee the success of multiple other businesses. Additionally, their unwavering support for our community with a variety of local donations and other contributions, along with being a substantial employer, is certainly worthy of our gratitude and pride. 

Meghann Lambeth is director of the Richmond County Tourism Development Authority. She is writing a series on how local industries are contributing to the COVID-19 effort, which will also be published at the Richmond Observer. You can read the original post here.