ROCKFORD, Ill. (WTVO) — J.L. Clark has been making plastic packaging in Rockford for major brands for more than 60 years.

They're also known for metal products like the packaging for Altoids.

Scott Novak is the company's Vice President of Marketing and Business Development. He gave us a tour of their plastics facility in Rockford. He said the manufacturing process begins with a massive silo outside the facility. It houses 200,000 pounds of resin.

"So the resin comes in from the rail car into the silo," Novak said, "and then it goes through overhead pipes into our injection molding press where it's heated and melted. And then we add coloring before it gets into the molding process."

The process to create one from start to finish seems to take less time than with metal products.

"The mo

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