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and explained my idea and he just listened to me and just nodded his head. He didn't say yes and he didn’t say no. Within two days, I get a call from Bob Lang, the president of the company at the time, who said, ‘Well, Mr. Cornish didn't like that idea of putting an old piece of crap on the back end of his brand new $16 million corrugator, but he decided he did like the idea of having e-flute, so he or- dered a new MHI single face machine! That's how quickly things could be done at Linpac. It was a great place to work.” “Capital was never an issue at Linpac,” added Shane Keigley. “We were constantly investing in the newest and best and fastest equipment. Linpac became known in the industry for it. We started with old equipment and we built it up the company with new and then we would have it running with RichieWare, which really set us up for a lot of success because we were able to integrate quickly with the computer side of things, which had never been done before.” The Linpac Mill Linpac didn't own any mills in the UK but with the many “firsts” the company was achieving in the US, it made the decision to take that “step into the unknown” and build a greenfield paper mill in Cowpens, South Carolina, on a pig slop farm owned by a farmer named Price.
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“I remember joining Bob in trying to convince Mr. Price to move his pigs so we could build our mill,” said Gold- berg. “He finally gave in, we bought him out and he let us do whatever we wanted if we named the road after him. That’s how the mill came to be built on Price Farm Road. It was so Mr. Price could have his family legacy.” The mill included a Valmet paper system with a Black Clawson refinery system, which was modern equipment at the time, but Linpac employees still had to learn how to
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