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(4MCO). “More recently, the strategy has shifted from buy- ing distressed assets to building state-of-the-art corrugat- ed packaging facilities that deply the kind of technology to be able to compete with the large integrated companies.” The modern, well-equipped, and energy-efficient facil- ity in Dover is the same “alpha” model as several other

approach with U.S. Corrugated, selling most of those busi- nesses, which included a 240,000-ton recycled contain- erboard paper mill in Cowpens, South Carolina and 14 converting facilities in the eastern and midwestern US, to

factories 4MCO launched in Santa Fe, California, Coving- ton, Georgia and Lebanon, Indiana, which were acquired by McKinley Paper Co., a subsidiary of Mexico-based Bio Pappel in more recent years. “We built the building 30 percent above all the engi- neering and design codes and that was not an accident. From left, control room operators Jason P. and Muneer H. mon- itor processes on a BHS Corrugated corrugator.

KapStone Paper and Packaging Corporation in 2011. “That was the world I came into and that was how I grew up in the business - going into places that hadn’t worked out the way the previous owners had hoped and turning them into viable assets,” said Mehiel’s son and namesake Dennis D. Mehiel, CEO of DCP, which operates under the umbrella of the Four M Family of Businesses An employee operates an EAM-Mosca squaring bundler.

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