Intense Competition Fuels Paper Chase

When Pamela Retseck started her secondary paper brokerage and packing plant in 1985, she wasn't aware of other women in the country running paper recycling and packing plants. Both the paper industry and the recycling industry have been male dominated for more than a century of operations in the United States; today, the National Association of Paperstock Women (NAPW) has more than 100 members (see "Paving The Way For Women In Waste," page 48). Retseck, the founder and president of Paper Chase in Quakertown, Pa., started her business under the wing of her father's industrial packaging business, Cherry's ...

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