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It was what we wanted to do and what we thought was the right thing to do as a new member of the business community in Delaware,” Mehiel said of the Dover plant. “The solar farm is really an extension of that mindset and we’re excited about getting it up and running and continu- ing the path of being responsible corporate citizens here in Dover.” Investing In Technology DCP has invested in state-of-the-art technology that allows them to optimize fiber in their packaging and com- pete with bigger box players and secure meaningful rela- tionships with name brand accounts such as PepsiCo. To that end, the backbone of the plant making this possible

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is a 110-inch German-manufactured latest generation BHS Corrugator capable of running at top speeds of 1,500 lin- eal feet per minute. “As a non-integrated producer of corrugated packag- ing we have to be able to produce very efficiently if we want to compete with large integrated players in mean- ingful corporate accounts,” Mehiel said. “We’ve partnered with some of the industry’s leading independent paper- makers, and we’ve worked with them to optimize fiber - based on the equipment that we have and our processes, we’re able to deliver packaging that performs equal to or better than packages that our customers get from larger integrated companies that have more paper in them.” General Manager Todd Simmons said that BHS makes one of the world’s best corrugators with an integrated quality control system measuring heat, warp, starch, and moisture. DCP now typically runs 5 million square feet of sheets a day, most of which is converted into finished products in-house, and expects to nearly double its cur- rent output by the time the facility reaches maturity. “It’s state-of-the-art from every vantage point,” Sim- mons said of the BHS. “It’s making adjustments all the way through the machine that give us truly superior quality.” In fact, the first stack off the corrugator was so tabletop flat, Simmons said they thought something was wrong. “That’s one of the reasons why we’ve advanced as The BHS 110” wide 1500’ FPM High Speed Corrugator.

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