Business View Caribbean | May 2016

70 May 2016 - Business View Caribbean Business View Caribbean - May 2016 71 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