Donated Chromebooks help Kzoo students learn at home

As districts work to finish the school year online, Kalamazoo Public Schools is distributing Chromebooks to students. Many of the laptops are coming from a donation by one local company. Schupan Asset Management has donated a total of 430 Chromebooks to Kalamazoo Public Schools and Kalamazoo Covenant Academy. Read More

Schupan and Sons donate Chromebooks to Kalamazoo students

Students across Michigan have been asked to do their school work from home because the coronavirus disease 2019, or COVID-19. As schools work to expand online, one West Michigan company is working to get students the tools they need. Schupan and Sons Inc. has donated more than 300 Chromebooks to Kalamazoo Public Schools and Kalamazoo […]

Schupan Asset Management donates refurbished laptops to students

Schupan Asset Management, the electronics recycling and information technology asset disposition (ITAD) division of Schupan & Sons, Inc., Kalamazoo, Michigan, has donated refurbished Chromebook laptops to Kalamazoo Public Schools and Kalamazoo Covenant Academy. These donations stem from study-from-home policies recently enacted at Michigan schools related to the COVID-19 outbreak. Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer ordered the […]

Why Sustainability?

So you’re planning an event and you ask, “Why sustainability?” It’s a question event professionals often ask themselves in the early stages of planning. Today, more and more venues, clients, and communities are encouraging event professionals to rethink traditional approaches of event production to become more eco-friendly. Depending on your event location and type, becoming […]

How to determine your sustainability needs.

You and your team decide to implement a sustainability program at your upcoming event. But where do you start? The road to being environmentally friendly can be cumbersome and confusing. We hope this guide will help you and your team to know where to start. Step 1: Determine what you can recycle, not necessarily what […]

Southwest Michigan Emerging Leaders

To further our understanding of how to best cultivate the region’s talent pool, 269 MAGAZINE called upon top corporate and regional leaders to bring bright, young Southwest Michigan talent to our attention. We asked the nominees about their work habits and philosophies, what brought them to Southwest Michigan, and what makes them stay. We celebrate […]

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 […]