Jarden Zinc Products

Jarden Zinc Products of Greeneville, Tennessee, is an American manufacturer of a variety of basic zinc products, including sheets of zinc used as precursors to other products and coinage blanks (planchets), including the copper-coated zinc blanks presently used to mint the United States one-cent piece. The company has resisted past efforts to eliminate the penny in the United States [1] through an astroturf lobby organization called Americans for Common Cents.

References

  1. "Zinc supplier paying thousands to save penny". The Dallas Morning News. 2007-08-19. Retrieved 2010-02-08.

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