Four M Corporation’s Chris Mehiel Passes Away Peacefully In FL Four M Commercial Operations has announced that Chris Mehiel passed away peacefully at his home in Vero Beach, Florida on June 29th, after a sixty-year career as a suc- cessful entrepreneur in the paper and packaging business. Along with his brother Dennis, Chris Mehiel founded Four M Corporation in Baltimore, Maryland in 1966, and saw it grow from stitching solid fibre full telescope mu- nitions containers for the US Government in a garage (thanks to an $8,000 loan from the Small Business Admin- istration), to the nation’s largest corrugated partition man- ufacturer by the late 1970’s. Chris rejoined his brother in the late 1990’s and, as Chief Operating Officer, helped Four M’s successor com- pany Box USA become the largest independent manufac- turer of corrugated packaging in North America. In addition, Chris also founded, owned and operated a number of other successful businesses in the space over the years, including WestStreet Industries, Specialty Pack- aging and Eastern Recycling Services, and was known to be an honest and principled executive by those who knew and did business with him. Chris Mehiel is survived by his wife Susan along with his three children, three grandchildren and three great grandchildren.
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