{"id":14316,"date":"2018-05-11T14:03:01","date_gmt":"2018-05-11T19:03:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cloeren.com\/?p=14316"},"modified":"2023-05-22T13:27:29","modified_gmt":"2023-05-22T18:27:29","slug":"cloeren-bounces-back-after-hurricane-harvey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cloeren.com\/zh-hans\/news\/cloeren-bounces-back-after-hurricane-harvey\/","title":{"rendered":"Cloeren Bounces Back After Hurricane Harvey"},"content":{"rendered":"

Orlando, Fla.<\/strong> \u2014 Flat die maker Cloeren Inc. is back in business after the company’s headquarters and two facilities in Orange, Texas, were hit by Hurricane Harvey last August.<\/p>\n

More than 4 feet of standing water filled Cloeren headquarters for nearly a week, and the building lost power after the catastrophic storm struck the area. The company’s two other facilities remained dry but without electricity.<\/p>\n

“One of the facilities was offline for the better part of a week,” George Hall, chief operating officer at Cloeren, said in a May 9 interview at the company’s booth during NPE2018 in Orlando. “The second facility, it was longer. It was probably [without power] closer to two weeks.”<\/p>\n

Hall said the unfortunate situation impacted “more than just manufacturing,” describing a displaced engineering staff sitting at desks on a plant floor where there was no network cabling.<\/p>\n

“There were no phones set up,” added Alicia Cloeren, the company’s director.<\/p>\n

Many of the company’s 375 \u200b<\/p>\n

employees were displaced from not just their place of work, but also their homes.<\/p>\n

“We had to take into consideration that they needed to evacuate and also find another place to live, so some of them did not return for quite some time,” Cloeren said.<\/p>\n

The company still has employees that are not back in their homes, she added.<\/p>\n

It took days for the company to figure out how to deal with the situation, Hall said, adding that for the most part they were half-staffed.<\/p>\n

“And we were inconveniently staffed,” Cloeren said. “Our CEO, who’s also my dad, was working out of a garage for five to six months.<\/p>\n

The headquarters had to be completely gutted.<\/p>\n

“We lost every piece of office furniture,” Cloeren said, plus some office equipment like copiers, a few computers and “a lot of paper,” Hall quipped.<\/p>\n

But the company ultimately decided to take advantage of the situation and completely redesign the building into what is now a state-of-the-art headquarters. An engineer worked on the floor plans, while Cloeren and her father, Peter, worked on the design, she said.<\/p>\n

“We were dealt a pretty bad situation, and I think what we tried to do was make the most of it,” Hall said.<\/p>\n

Cloeren acknowledged further efforts to avert flooding at the headquarters would be “a big investment,” but leadership is considering ways to prevent it in the future.<\/p>\n

“Most importantly, our entire IT infrastructure has changed so that a Mother Nature event will not stop us from doing our jobs, and that’s a big improvement,” Hall said. employees were displaced from not just their place of work, but also their homes.<\/p>\n

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