NEPW Logistics Starts New Paper Converter in Maine

 

According to a report earlier this week by the Press Herald, Portland, Maine, NEPW Logistics, a shipping and supply chain company that has operations around the state, is unveiling its fourth paper converter machine in Scarborough later this month.

The machine takes paper made in local mills and converts it into sizes commonly used by businesses and consumers.

"With the complexity of the printing world these days, printers and presses are requesting smaller and smaller sizes as well as smaller orders in general," Dana Hanson, NEPW’s GM, said in an email. "We take paper that is produced at the mill and convert the paper on our machines to smaller widths and diameters to meet their customer specifications."

This value-added service started in the 1990s with Northeast Paper Services founder Ralph Carpenter and one piece of converting equipment. The service took off, prompting the installation of a second converter, which, like its predecessor, ran 24/7. Carpenter sold the business in 2009 to NEPW Logistics, in part because the bigger company had the resources to install a third paper converter. Hanson said the company is already looking to install a fifth machine.

"We are, as some have termed it, the ‘hidden secret’ in Maine that gives the mills an advantage to supply product to their customers in a timely manner with sizes of paper that are not produced efficiently at the mills," he said.

The company is hosting an open house on July 22 to show the fourth paper converter in action to its paper mill clients.