Statewide Iowa — An Iowa toy company that makes flexible two-lane racetracks is struggling with supply chain troubles, along with many other businesses, as we approach the busy holiday season.
Randy Belding, president and co-founder of Blu Track, says they don’t have the necessary supplies to meet current orders, let alone create a large special order they’d hoped to donate to the Toys for Tots program.
The company’s Anamosa plant, which employs about ten workers, planned to create 500 track kits an entire shift’s work, to donate to the popular holiday charity for kids, but Belding says they need about 17-hundred pounds of the PVC resin.
Belding says the Blu Track kits allow kids to race two cars at once, side-by-side, while the dual tracks are also being used in school science and physics labs for basic force and motion lessons and even complex coaster designs. Blu Track, which was founded in Pella more than 20 years ago, has long used a Pennsylvania supplier for its PVC, but everything has ground to a halt.
Time is tight, he says, and they need the resin by November 22nd in order to make the Toys for Tots donation.
