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free access into the CARICOM market, and we have
some free-trade agreements with the Dominican Re-
public and Costa Rica, and soon, Colombia,” Mitchell
says. “Our focus is going to be first on CARICOM. Wa-
ter-resistant corrugated cardboard packaging is what
we would try and spearhead into the Suriname, Be-
lize, Guyana market, because they’re big on seafood
– shrimps, lobsters, crustaceans - which require fairly
durable, moisture-proof packaging. And Cuba is loom-
ing large on the horizon. We think that in those areas,
we have quite a large export market that will keep us
busy for the next five to seven years.”
Investing in Corrpak’s infrastructure is one sure way
to ramp up the volume and quality of its product lines.
Mitchell elaborates: “We create corrugated cardboard
from paper – we take the paper, we bond it, corrugate
it, then we convert it to the shapes and sizes and thick-
ness and density of the board that the customer re-
quires. In the last quarter of last year, we acquired two
new machines from China - one a five-color printer/die
cutter, and the other a very fast auto-folder/gluer. We
improved our conversion capacity by the acquisition of
two machines capacity by about 50 percent.”
The company also expanded its footprint. “The first
