Editing Pickaway County, Ohio (section)

==Economy==
[[Manufacturing]] makes up a significant proportion of area industry and employment; in the [[2010 United States Census|2010 census]], 3075 county residents (13.4%) were employed in manufacturing.<ref name=PS>{{cite web|url=http://www.pickawayprogress.com/FastFacts.aspx|title=Demographics and Income plus other local statistics for Pickaway County P3 Ohio|publisher=Pickawayprogress.com|access-date=September 22, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130927094006/http://www.pickawayprogress.com/FastFacts.aspx|archive-date=September 27, 2013|url-status=dead}}</ref>
Circleville is home to the largest [[DuPont]] chemical plant in Ohio. Opened in the 1950s, it produces [[Mylar]] and [[Tedlar]] plastic films, the latter used extensively in the production of [[photovoltaic module]]s.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.circlevilletoday.com/news/dupont-celebrates-tedlar-expansion/article_4f9ba8fe-a472-11e1-86da-0019bb2963f4.html|title=DuPont celebrates Tedlar expansion|last=Murphy|first=Kristi|newspaper=The Circleville Herald|date=May 22, 2012|access-date=September 22, 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.pickawayprogress.com/NewsDetails.aspx?article=4489216|title=News & Events for Pickaway Progress Business Development Project Central Ohio|publisher=Pickawayprogress.com|date=January 18, 2010|access-date=September 22, 2013|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130927094232/http://www.pickawayprogress.com/NewsDetails.aspx?article=4489216|archive-date=September 27, 2013}}</ref>

Other manufacturing concerns in Circleville or surrounding Pickaway County include [[Aleris]], a producer of rolled and extruded aluminum products,<ref name=GE/> and Florida Production Engineering (FPE), producing plastic injection molded components for the automotive industry.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.fpe-inc.com/index.html|title=Plastic Injection Molding from 100 tons to 3000 tons in Florida, Kentucky and Ohio|publisher=Fpe-inc.com|access-date=September 22, 2013}}</ref> [[Georgia-Pacific]], a manufacturer of paperboard containers and other paper products, has a plant located south of Circleville. The [[PPG Industries]] Circleville plant is the company's center for [[Synthetic resin|polymer resin]] production, primarily for automotive applications.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ppg.com/corporate/collegerecruiting/lifeatppg/pages/circleville.aspx|title=Circleville OH - Life At PPG - College Recruiting|publisher=Ppg.com|access-date=September 22, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130927133132/http://www.ppg.com/corporate/collegerecruiting/lifeatppg/pages/circleville.aspx|archive-date=September 27, 2013|url-status=dead}}</ref>

Other major employers include Berger Health System; Circleville City, [[Teays Valley Local School District|Teays Valley Local]] and Logan Elm Local School districts; Circle Plastics/TriMold LLC; the [[State of Ohio]]; and [[Wal-Mart]] Stores.<ref name=PS/>

Businesses that formerly operated include the [[Smurfit-Stone Container|Jefferson-Smurfit]] paper mill,<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/1998/12/02/smurfit-to-shutter-5-mills-cut-1660-jobs/|title=Smurfit To Shutter 5 Mills, Cut 1,660 Jobs|last=Gaines|first=Sallie L.|newspaper=Chicago Tribune|date=December 2, 1998|access-date=April 28, 2018}}</ref> a 300-acre site, that is being redeveloped.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.greeninvgroup.com/projects/project-circleville-ohio.html|title=Projects - Green Investment Group|publisher=Greeninvgroup.com|access-date=September 22, 2013}}</ref> [[American Electric Power]] (AEP) owned the [[Picway Power Plant]] in the northern part of Pickaway County. The coal-fired power plant operated from 1926 to 2015.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.aep.com/environment/PlantRetirements/Picway.aspx|title=Picway|publisher=AEP|access-date=April 28, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180428181445/https://www.aep.com/environment/PlantRetirements/Picway.aspx|archive-date=April 28, 2018|url-status=dead}}</ref> A [[GE Lighting]] plant opened in 1948.<ref name=GE>{{cite news|url=http://www.circlevilletoday.com/news/ge-plant-to-add-jobs/article_8a3d68ab-a89b-5522-b8e8-4f1d817d184a.html|title=GE plant to add 50 jobs|last=Murphy|first=Kristi|newspaper=The Circleville Herald|date=August 22, 2013|access-date=September 22, 2013}}</ref> The plant closed in 2017.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.dispatch.com/news/20170412/ge-lighting-to-close-circleville-plant-costing-148-jobs|title=GE Lighting to close Circleville plant, costing 148 jobs|last=Gearino|first=Dan|newspaper=The Columbus Dispatch|date=April 12, 2017|access-date=April 28, 2018}}</ref> RCA/Thomson Glass operated from 1970 until its closing around 2006.{{citation needed|date=October 2021}}