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| 1972 aerial picture of Scott Paper Co. from the Thomas F. Root Collection |
From 1945 until it closed in 1981, Scott Paper Company did business on West Shoreline Drive, at the foot of Fulton Street. (In the 1940s and 1950s, Shoreline Drive was known as Railroad Street.) In 1945 the Scott Paper Company took over the assets of the Automatic Paper Factory, which had been in Sandusky since 1942. A page from the 1955 Sanborn Fire Insurance Map shows the Scott Paper plant adjacent to Sandusky Bay.
The Sandusky plant of Scott Paper was the Cut Rite Division, which manufactured wax paper. In a special section promoting local industry, an article in the November 9, 1956 issue of the Sandusky Register Star News reported that the Scott Paper Company concentrated on quality. The goals were to: make a limited number of consumer products of highest quality, manufacture them at the lowest possible cost, and to advertise widely. The advertisement below appeared in the Sandusky Register Star News of February 11, 1954.
Eventually the Scott Paper Company in Sandusky also began manufacturing disposable wipes. By 1980, the company had 400 employees. In 1980, there was talk of phasing out the Sandusky division of Scott Paper. Local efforts to keep Scott Paper in Sandusky included the catch phrase, “Great Scott, Don’t Go.”
However, company officials ultimately decided to close its facility in Sandusky. The Cut Rite waxed paper division moved to Fort Edward, New York, and the production of Baby Fresh wipes was transferred to Dover, Delaware. Today Kimberley Clark is the parent company of Scott Paper products.
Though it was only in Sandusky, Ohio for thirty five years, Scott Paper Co. provided jobs for hundreds of local residents. Looking through old copies of the Sandusky Register, you might notice the Scott Paper Company mentioned often in wedding announcements and obituaries.
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My oldest brother Bill worked for many yers at Scott's Cut-Rite Sandusky plant, becoming chief of equipment maintenance, until the company closed it shortly after the employees in the plant voted to unionize. At the time, Bill had only a few more years to go until he could collect his pention, so he reluctantly transferred to another division of Scott Paper, which had a plant in New Jersy about 30 miles south of Philadelphia. After he had enough years of service to qualify for his pention, he retired and moved the family back to Sandusky where many of the chidlren and grandchildren of Bill and his wife Phyliss (Will) still reside. Ed Daniel
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