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  • Canusa Hershman Acquires Recycle 1, Arizona Pacific Pulp & Paper

    Canusa Hershman has announced the purchase of Phoenix-based Recycle 1 and Arizona Pacific Pulp & Paper, a paper recycling company that operates as part of Recycle 1, adding a fourth recycling facility to its portfolio. See article in Recycling Today here.
  • Recycle 1 Baltimore

    Canusa Hershman reopens their Baltimore Plant. Once a trucking operation, we are now a full recycling plant at our same location on Quad Avenue.
  • CH diversifies into containerboard and packaging papers with the acquisition of Evergreen Fibres, and its subsidiaries, Evergreen Fibers Canada, Paper Alliance, and Alliance Paperboard.
  • Canusa Hershman Recycling expands its presence into the Southeast with the opening of a recycling facility in South Carolina.
  • Canusa Hershman Recycling is rebranded as Canusa Hershman – distinguishing its operating divisions and products.
  • CHRC acquires the assets of Mehali, Inc., a leading trader of recovered fiber to India. This is a catalyst to CHRC’s direct export capabilities to India and other export markets.
  • Canusa Hershman of Maryland is established to collect and process commercial-grade fiber in the Baltimore area market.
  • CHRC co-founds a state-of the art recycling facility in Baltimore, MD focused on recovering mixed post-consumer plastics.
  • CHRC expands its St Albans facility to include plastics grinding.
  • The CHRC recycling facilities in Manassas, VA and Baltimore, MD, and the Capitol Fiber facility in Springfield, VA are sold to a national waste company.
  • CHRC creates BA/CH Polymers to concentrate on the purchase and sale of both recycled and virgin plastic resins.
  • CHRC opens a state-of-the-art single-stream MRF in Manassas, VA which processes 20,000 tons per month at its peak.
  • CHRC expands its Baltimore, MD recycling operations to a new 140,000 sq. ft facility
  • CHRC co-founds Newport CH International to focus on sales of fiber and plastic recyclables into the growing Asian market.
  • Canusa Hershman Merger

    Canusa Hershman Recycling Company (“CHRC”) is created through the merger of “Hershman Recycling” and Canusa’s recycling division.
  • CANUSA CORP HISTORY

    Canusa and The Washington Post Company establish Capitol Fiber, a joint venture 100,000 square foot processing facility in Springfield, VA to process and market D.C.’s curbside collected newspapers.
  • Hershman Company History

    Ethan Hershman becomes President of the family business and rebrands as Hershman Recycling.
  • Hershman Company History

    Canusa Hershman’s co-founders, Ethan Hershman and Bruce Fleming, first meet. Neither could have predicted that they would become partners almost 20 years later.
  • CANUSA CORP HISTORY

    Fleming co-founds the company which would become Canusa Corporation, as a domestic trader of recovered fiber.
  • Canusa Corp History

    Fleming’s work with the Princeton recycling program leads to an opportunity to work for Garden State Paper, the first paper mill in the world to commercially produce recycled newsprint from only old newspapers.
  • Canusa Corp History

    Bruce Fleming begins his career in the recycling industry as a student at Princeton University where he resurrects University’s recycling program.
  • Hershman Company History

    I Hershman Company begins exporting recyclables to South America, becoming one of the first exporters in the industry.
  • Hershman Company History

    I Hershman Company makes a groundbreaking move when it installs the first automatic baler on the East Coast. This exponentially increases efficiency of materials processing.
  • Hershman Company History

    I Hershman Company opens its brokerage division and expands to a 50,000 square foot facility.
  • Hershman Company History

    I Hershman Company establishes its first material recycling facility in New Haven, CT.
  • Hershman Company History

    The family business begins when Isreal Hershman creates I Hershman Company, a pioneer recycling operation that collected rags, metals, and scrap wood for repurposing.