Local Industry

The Guernsey County area has a robust group of manufacturers and industries. Below you will find a sampling of the various employers in the area.


ACI Services - design, rebuild and manufacture compressors
AFC Cable Systems
- flexible cable conduit
AMG Vanadium - ferro alloys and vanadium chemicals
Basic Systems Inc. - high pressure vessel engineering and design
BSI Group/Bi-Con Services - pipe and pressure vessel fabrication
Cambridge Packaging, Inc. - corrugated boxes
Centria/Coil Coatings - metal finishers
Colgate-Palmolive Company - soaps and related products
Detroit Diesel Remanufacturing-East - engine and transmission rebuilding
Dywidag Systems International - metal stamping
Encore Plastics Corporation - injection molded plastics
Fabri-Form Company - custom plastic fabricators and vacuum forming
Fed Ex Ground - small package transportation
Federal Mogul/Champion Spark Plug - spark plug insulators
Heating & Cooling Products Inc. - pipe, duct work, etc.
International Paper - corrugated boxes
Island Aseptics - aseptic food packaging
Jeffersonian Company - newspaper/print shop
Laguna Clay Company - clay manufacturing, distribution
Leyshon Miller Industries - custom small plastic parts
LMI Custom Mixing - rubber mixing
Mosser Glass - China and crystal glassware
Packaging Materials, Inc. - polyethylene film and bags
Picoma Industries - metal plumbing and electrical parts
Plastic Compounders - custom color compounding
Quanex - window insulation molding
Ridge Tool - distribution facility
Superior Steel Corp (U.S. Bridge) - steel fabricating and warehousing
Telling Industries-Metal Building Products - sheet and tubular metals
U.S. Bridge (Ohio Bridge Corporation) - bridge fabrication, culverts, steel products

Typical Wages

Position/Average Hourly Rate

Maintenance - General: $15.85
Electrician: $21.49
File Clerk: $10.81
Material Handler: $11.33
Assembler: $14.46
Computer Programmer: $26.69
Industrial Engineer: $31.49
Construction Laborer: $17.36
Millwright: $26.81
Tool and Die Maker: $23.35
Truck Drive (Heavy, Tractor-Trailer): $18.93
Metal and Plastic Workers: $12.87