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day. A quarter million dollars for the capital would have started a sheet plant back several decades ago. Now a quarter million dollars won’t even lease the building. So it’s interesting how far we’ve come. Quinn : One theme that is common amongst all of us here is for all these years, at least when I was starting off, is we had TAPPI and we had the AICC. Those organiza- tions are so critical for all of us and have been critical since day one. Tom Haire, who was the founder of our company, was an engineer. He loved TAPPI. When I started with the company, he said, “You’ve got to get involved in TAPPI, and I don’t want you to just show up. You need to get on committees, and you need to network and get to know
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