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(COURTESY OF SCHUPAN & SONS, INC.)
Marc Schupan discovers
the benefits of bizav
by MeLinda Schnyder
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 and begin reaping the rewards the King Air has brought to his business and life.
“We started using the King Air four or five years ago, and I wish I would’ve started sooner,” he said. “It’s been a great tool.”
the Kalamazoo-headquartered Schupan & Sons does business on a national and international level in beverage container recycling and aluminum and plastic sales. The multi-divisional company has 13 locations throughout Michigan, Ohio, Indiana and Illinois and more than 12,000 customers across the United States.
Schupan & Sons estimates it ships and recycles about 1 million pounds of metals and plastics a day between all of the operations.
Schupan has done quite well despite being a late-comer to business aviation. He took over his father’s small metals recycling company in 1974 and during the past five decades has grown the business from six employees to more than 500 by diversifying and enlarging its operational footprint. In addition to scrap metal recycling,
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Not the career he intended
While Schupan was studying political science at Michigan State University, his father bought a small nonferrous recycling operation in 1968. “I give him a lot of credit,” Schupan said of his father, Nelson.
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