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 […]

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 […]

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.

Two Michigan-based companies aid recycling efforts in Flint amid water crisis

As millions and millions of bottled water donations are sent to Flint, the city is trying to figure out how to handle the accumulating amount of plastic waste that is building up — amid other problems that are plaguing the area. “It’s an enormous challenge. But one we’re going to keep fighting for,” said Schupan & Sons […]

Better late than never

The only regret Marc Schupan has about owning a 1985 Beechcraft King Air C90A is that he didn’t discover the value of business aviation earlier. Read original article here.