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riod of three months and several Zoom meetings. Like a gathering of classmates at a reunion, stories flowed out liberally, like the many “adult beverages” undoubtedly consumed over multiple Linpac business meetings and customer golf outings. The ’Wild West’ Of Corrugated “Ultimately, the Linpac story is about what we all did as a team of employees who became great friends and in the process, built a culture rarely seen in the corrugated industry today, or any industry, for that matter,” said Gold- berg. “Some of us are retired and some of us are still work- ing but we still stay connected by phone, text or Zoom. We’re a family and after 40 years, we’re still here.” The landscape of the corrugated industry was vast- ly different in the early 1980s. It was an exciting time in a niche but exploding market that saw young men and women starting their careers in what was essentially the “Wild West” of the corrugated industry, when innovation and technology converged with an entrepreneurial vision of what the future of American manufacturing could be. A key figure in the Linpac legacy was a British busi- nessman named Nigel Roe , who was tasked by Evan Cor- nish to start Linpac in the United States in the late 1970s. “I joined Linpac in 1978 after being interviewed by Mr. Cornish, a delightful man who was like a ‘favorite uncle’ to
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