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. As of 2016 Jarden Zinc Products is the sole provider of zinc blanks for the US Mint. The company has resisted past efforts to eliminate the penny in the United States.