{"id":198571,"date":"2020-05-06T15:29:11","date_gmt":"2020-05-06T20:29:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=198571"},"modified":"2020-05-06T15:35:04","modified_gmt":"2020-05-06T20:35:04","slug":"newman-signs-re-purposes-pandemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=198571","title":{"rendered":"Newman Signs re-purposes, pandemic"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Jamestown\u00a0\u00a0 (JSDC<\/a>)\u00a0 Newman Signs typically manufactures and distributes signs for a wide range of traffic, urban and outdoor advertising. As the demand for billboards, window decals, vehicle graphics, art canvas, banners, posters and other specialty signs dried up with COVID-19 uncertainties, the company has repurposed their manufacturing capabilities to produce acrylic barriers for a wide range of businesses. The company has learned literally raising barriers to combat the virus has been in great demand. So great, in fact, that the raw material may not last much longer.<\/p>\n

\u201cThose with a need for this type of product for their business need to order soon,\u201d said Ramone Gumke, operations manager at Newman Signs. \u201cIn about three weeks, we and similar manufacturers will be out of the raw acrylic.\u201d<\/p>\n

As a division of Newman Signs in Jamestown, North Dakota, Newman Print is a commercial printing business. In a normal year, their peak production season typically begins in March, but that has definitely taken a detour this year. In reaction to the COVID-19 crisis, Newman has repurposed their acrylic cutting equipment to supply barriers for businesses having customer interfaces. They\u2019ve been able to produce free-standing clear acrylic sheets that can be set up in business environments to provide a barrier between employees and customers.\u00a0 The sheets can be easily taken down or moved around. And business has been quite hectic, said Gumke.<\/p>\n

\u201cNow that states like North Dakota are beginning to open back up, businesses are in a mad scramble to prepare to open,\u201d he said. \u201cEveryone with the manufacturing capability is trying to produce these products.\u201d<\/p>\n

Demand has been so high that the supply of uncut raw sheets of acrylic is now backordered to as much as 120 days. Newman has taken orders from across the country from customers such as the U.S. Postal Service, Sanford Health and doctor offices.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt seems like every order this week has been a different dentist or orthodontist office,\u201d said Gumke. \u201cWith the supply dwindling, if they don\u2019t get their orders in soon, they will have to wait quite a while.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jamestown and JSDC help<\/strong><\/p>\n

Newman has been located in Jamestown 60 years, where it has benefitted from a central location both within the state and the country. But the company knows it has been extremely fortunate with the available workforce found in the city. Gumke said without the Jamestown\/Stutsman Development Corporation (JSDC), the community would not continue to grow and Newman would not have access to that high quality workforce.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe JSDC has been a great partner, bringing in complementary businesses to keep the community vibrant,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

While the company leans on its acrylic capabilities as a way to get through the current crisis, Gumke expects their regular print business to come back. Once businesses and individuals are more financially secure, they\u2019re going to need to play catch-up with their advertising to maximize their sales and profits, he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWith all our different product divisions hosting customers with a big need for advertising, I expect business to be busier than a normal year,\u201d said Gumke.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jamestown\u00a0\u00a0 (JSDC)\u00a0 Newman Signs typically manufactures and distributes signs for a wide range of traffic, urban and outdoor advertising. As the demand for billboards, window decals, vehicle graphics, art canvas, banners, posters and other specialty signs dried up with COVID-19 uncertainties, the company has repurposed their manufacturing capabilities to produce […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":198572,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-csicelebrations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=198571"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198571\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":198576,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198571\/revisions\/198576"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/198572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=198571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=198571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=198571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}