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Article: Survival of the fittest: by focusing on service and integrity, mid-sized scrap companies will remain contenders in the market, owners say.(Industry Overview)
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- Recycling Today
- Article date:
- January 1, 2005
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Marty Davis's great-great grandfather founded what would become Midland Davis Corp., Moline Ill., in 1892, collecting scrap metal with the aid of a horse and buggy. "Whether business was good or bad, the horse had to eat, he would say," recalls Davis, who now co-owns and manages the company with his brother.
The company has grown from its roots in scrap metal to include paper recycling. And the two Davis brothers at the helm of the current operation (Marty and his brother Mitch) are the fourth generation of their family to manage the Midland Davis recycling venture. It's a pattern familiar to many small to mid-sized scrap companies that pass from one generation ...
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Article: Midland makes acquisition.(SCRAP INDUSTRY NEWS)
Recycling Today;
October 1, 2005 ;
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...Midland Davis Corp. has acquired Pekin Recycling ... recycling company in central Illinois. Midland Davis, based in Moline, Ill., also has ... Joel Erlichman, general manager of Midland Davis--Peoria, says the company will ...
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