Schupan’s Take ’em Back Campaign Releases Educational Video

Helping kids save the planet. One can at a time. Kalamazoo, MI: September 18, 2024—Schupan is excited to announce its partnership with Earth Cubs for the release of a new video aimed at teaching Michigan’s 3rd through 5th graders the importance of redeeming deposit containers. The video, part of the broader “Take ’em Back” campaign, will be distributed to […]

Schupan COO Tom Emmerich Looks to the Future of Recycling in Michigan

How is the state of recycling in Michigan? We’ve heard that we lag other Midwestern states. How are we doing recycling wise?  “There have been a lot of efforts to try to increase what we do in Michigan. Do we lag other states? We absolutely do. We have like an 18 percent municipal and recycling […]

Introduction to Corporate Responsibility

You may have visited a business website recently and seen a page for “Social Responsibility” or “Corporate Citizenship.” You may have even seen a link … Read More ›

Over $50 Million In Bottles, Cans Await Refunds

(CBS DETROIT) – As bottles and cans continue to mount at homes across the state the value of the deposits skyrocket. “We know that there are roughly 70 million containers a week that is being stockpiled by Michiganders,” said Tom Emmerich, Schupan Recycling president.  Back in March, Governor Gretchen Whitmer issued an executive order suspending the […]

Recyclers Stuck with Millions of Uncashed Empties in Lockdown

Michiganders are sitting on $60 million worth of empty bottles and cans, a lot of them rattling around in the back of Thad Zajac’s Ford Escape. Among the 10 U.S. states where grocery and liquor stores pay a nickel or a dime for empty bottles and cans, many have shut down recycling collection centers in […]

Schupan hires two for trading division

  Drew Kocsis and Ryan Limburg have joined the materials trading division of Schupan & Sons Inc., Kalamazoo, Mich. Schupan & Sons is a family-owned metals and plastics distribution, recycling and manufacturing company. Kocsis joins the company from Hunter Douglas Metals, where he was most recently a metals trader. Limburg spent the past nine years […]

Schupan Electronics Recycling to use device trackers

Michigan-based Schupan Electronics Recycling, a division of Schupan & Sons Inc., began deploying the Green Tracking Service to verify proper downstream recycling of the end-of-life electronics it handles. Green Tracking Service provides small trackers that adhere to electronics. The trackers report on their hosts’ locations once daily for up to a year, sending an alert […]

A shared health clinic opens for employees & family of Fabri-Kal, Schupan & Sons

A medical center opened in August to provide health care for employees of two West Michigan companies. Schupan and Sons and Fabri-Kal are sharing a clinic on Covington Road in Kalamazoo. The medical center will provide primary and preventative care to the more than 500 employees and their families. See original article.

Urban Alliance Momentum Program is worth bragging about.

PARCHMENT, MI — The Urban Alliance Technical Center in Parchment is worth bragging about. So says Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder. “Sometimes as Michiganders we’re too humble,” Snyder said during a Monday afternoon visit to the technical center, which uses part of an Lewis C. Howard warehouse facility at 400 Island Ave. in Parchment. Read more.