Fuyao: We need qualified jobs applicants

Fuyao Glass America Inc. and the Montgomery County office of Ohio Means Jobs are launching a new push for qualified Fuyao job applicants.

Fuyao’s Moraine glass fabrication plant has just over 400 employees today and will have more than 1,500 employees when it’s full operational, said Tom Thompsen, Fuyao Glass America human resources manager.

The plant is expected to be world’s largest standalone auto glass plant when it is fully staffed, said John Gauthier, Fuyao Glass America president.

But more employees are needed to install equipment and production lines, to master those lines and then to operate them, both men said.

The plant brings in 50 to 100 new workers a month and will do so for the foreseeable future, Gauthier said. New hires will be based on when new workers are needed.

A sixth group of new workers is now being brought into the plant at 2601 W. Stroop Road, Thompsen said.

Watch News Center 7 today at 6 p.m. for the latest on the jobs from reporter Andy Sedlak.