Corrugated Services Inc. - Forney Paper Mills
855 East Hwy 80
P.O. Box 847
Forney, TX 75126
Phone: 214-515-6411
Fax: 214-515-6497
Contact: Mr. Marty Rusk
VP Fiber Supply
email: MRusk@CSIpaper.com

Two paper mills that recycle 100% scrap paper. We are the largest consumer of Corrugated and Mixed Paper in the State of Texas! We buy truckloads of baled Corrugated, Mixed Paper and Roll Cores. Deliveries of any quantity of bales are welcome. Send all bids to this location.
 

Corrugated Services ‘Closes the Loop’
With Fiber Plants

(Mill Trade Journal's Recycling Markets - 1-28-02)
by Anna S. Dutko

In today’s environmentally conscious times, it seems evident that more and more companies are encouraged to ‘close the loop’ by making products that are recyclable.  However, Corrugated Services Inc., a Texas based linerboard and medium manufacturer has been making 100 percent recycled containerboard for nearly 30 years.  In addition, the company owns scrap fiber processing plants and manufactures a repulpable coating as an alternative to wax-coated corrugated containers.

Corrugated Services is ‘bullish’ about the quality of recovered Old Corrugated Containers (OCC) used in its finished product.  “We wanted to have more control over our scrap fiber, so in the 90’s we created a separate division, Fiber Supply, for processing OCC,” said Bill Baker, Corrugated Services’ Vice President of Marketing. “Good quality fibers with a high percentage of US produced boxes and no newspaper, are essential in producing premium quality containerboard.”

Fiber Supply offers training on quality right at the source of OCC, its suppliers.  “We offer formal training to managers and employees on the do’s and don’ts of recycling OCC, so everyone is on the same page,” said Marty Rusk, Vice President of Fiber Supply.  “We go over contaminant issues such as wax, plastic and other types of papers that are not acceptable when baled with the OCC.”  Loose OCC and other paper grades are sent to sort conveyors and the separated grades are baled.  All baled paper grades delivered to Fiber Supply are thoroughly checked and inspected for quality prior to shipping to our mill.  “We avoid suppliers who do not meet our quality requirements,” said Rusk. 

Seventy percent of our scrap fiber is generated and sourced in the Dallas / Ft Worth area from industrial accounts, printers, office buildings and other recycling facilities; ninety seven percent of incoming material is generated  within a 250 mile radius, noted Rusk.

The division collects / purchases over 25,000 tons of OCC per month, in addition to other paper grades.  Fiber Supply has three processing plants in Texas:  an 86,000 square foot facility in Arlington, and 30,000 square foot plants in both Garland and  Dallas.  All three are open 24/7 for haulers to drop off material.

“We recognize that we can give more opportunities to the haulers by having multiple locations as opposed to the large single plant that depends on the spoke and hub method of transporting.  It really cuts down on traveling costs for haulers,” said Rusk.

Our three Fiber Supply Recycling Facilities are currently providing over twenty percent of the material used at Corrugated Services’ linerboard and medium mill located just outside Dallas.  The remaining OCC and other grades are brokered or sold to other paper mills across the country.  “We have plans in the future to automate the sorting process at our plants.  Automation will further enhance our scrap fiber collections, efficiency and quality,” said Rusk.
 

Ranges of Recycled Linerboard

Corrugated Services manufactures 100 percent recycled linerboard and medium at it’s mill in Forney.  Their customers use the products to produce new corrugated boxes – thus closing the recycling loop.  The mill has two paper machines, a 200 tpd medium machine and a 700 tpd linerboard machine.  CSI manufactures linerboard in basis weights from 33# to 57# and medium in basis weights from 26# to 40#.

The company prides itself on the quality of it’s finished linerboard.  “We have a unique way of preparing fibers [in the stock preparation process] for the paper machine, to make a clean, strong and printable sheet of linerboard,” said Baker.  “The results are seen daily in the premium quality boxes produced by our customers.  When both our liner and medium are used, the boxes are 100% recycled and 100% recyclable.“

Corrugated Services’ motto is service, service, service.  “Seventy percent of our orders are received produced and shipped within nine days.  Our customers can order paper weekly and confidently keep their inventories low,” said Baker.  CSI supplies boxmakers and corrugators from North Carolina to California.