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Appleton Company Gives Old Paper Converter New Life
C3 Corp. in Appleton recently led the restoration of a 28-year-old rewinder that first saw duty in the old Midtec Kimberly Mill. Robert Gioffredi of G2 Paper in Appleton found the rewinder, which had seen better days, at a pet food company in Topeka, Kansas. He decided to purchase the old machine and have C3 refinish it instead of buying a new rewinder to back up existing equipment.
C3 Corp. in Appleton recently led the restoration of a 28-year-old rewinder that first saw duty in the old Midtec Kimberly Mill. Robert Gioffredi of G2 Paper in Appleton found the rewinder, which had seen better days, at a pet food company in Topeka, Kansas. He decided to purchase the old machine and have C3 refinish it instead of buying a new rewinder to back up existing equipment.
It was only during the restoration process that Gioffredi and the team at C3 discovered the machine’s history and that it was purchased by Mid-Tec in 1983. C3 breathed new life into the old machine by updating hydraulics, retooling pneumatics, putting in new bearings and seals and adding a fresh coat of paint.
“C3 took an incredibly solid piece of engineering and made it new. We could not have purchased a new machine as good as this one is now,” Gioffredi says.
