Recycling Company To Acquire Texas Firm

Mick Barry,a spokesman for Mid America, says that the Dallas plant is 15 blocks from one of Mid America’s plants. The company will keep the plant open, and will use the Rock Tenn plant to boost the company’s bulk handling operations. The purchase of the Rock Tenn plant will boost the company’s efficiencies, Barry adds.

In addition to the business, the acquisition included Rock Tenn’s book of business.

The purchase strengthens Mid America’s presence in the Southwestern U.S. Recently, Mid America acquired Vista Fibers, a Texas-based recycling operation with facilities in Texas and Louisiana. Barry says that while the company’s operations in the Midwest have keyed on many of the high grades of recovered fiber, the Southwestern plants have focused on bulk grades such as old corrugated.

Mid America focuses on growing its business in middle sized cities in the middle part of the United States. The company has around 12 plants located in Texas, Minnesota, Michigan, Oklahoma, Iowa, Nebraska, and Louisiana.