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age who have spent a fulfilling career and raised children and now enjoying grandchildren, he wanted to express his heartfelt thanks to the industry and the colleagues and customers, employers and employees, and friends who have become family, far too many to count, who contribut- ed to his knowledge, success and a career well lived and a life truly enjoyed. Goldberg’s suggestion for an as-of-yet untold story and
having to do with corrugators. Goldberg retired earlier this year after more than four decades of installing, starting
up and managing corrugators around the world for Linpac and its predecessors, then later at President Container Group where his years of experience helped him to create, build and manage one of the largest in- dependent facilities in the Unit- ed States. (He said rarely does a week goes by that he doesn’t get a call from someone around
the many personalities with whom it intersected for subse- quent decades began with his involvement in a corporation legally known as Lin Pac, Inc. (according to amended articles of incorporation in 1987, but for the sake of this article will be known as Linpac), which few
Richie Goldberg
the world seeking to tap his deep source of knowledge about a corrugator issue.) Like many of those of a certain
may remember as the British
Evan Cornish
DESIGNS THAT INCREASE PRODUCTION
company that by most reliable accounts, gave birth to the concept of the sheet feeder in the U.S. in the early 1980s. Gold- berg joined Linpac in 1982 with its first US investment in Syosset, New York. Linpac was a subsidiary of Linpac Group Limited, which was founded in 1959 in Lincolnshire England as Lincolnshire Packaging to produce paper packaging for local fresh food producers. (According to Wikipedia, Linpac Group Limited is an international business valued at almost £500,000,000, providing mainly foam plastic, injection moulding, flexible and corrugated packaging and supply chain manufacturing and services business. By 2015, it had amassed from all divisions approximately 8,000 employees world- wide.) One of the group’s founders was Evan Cornish , who was responsible for the initiative to bring Linpac to the U.S., and according to Goldberg, possessed the unique traits of having a brilliant business mind, as well as being a “true gentleman.” (Evan’s son, Michael , later oversaw growth of the company and after Evan’s passing in 2002, was part of the effort to sell Linpac Group Limited to a private equity firm.) Goldberg attributes Cornish’s belief in building the company’s family culture to creating relationships that have survived decades – he’s still maintains contact with both Cornish’s grown children and grand- children – and is part of the reason Gold- berg himself has remained in touch with many of those whose shared their mem- ories and stories for this article over a pe-
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