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Look us up at IDEA22

Look Us Up At IDEA22

Alert to nonwovens industry people visiting rebelconverting.com. If you’re going to be at the IDEA22 show in Miami, look up our booth. The event is all about global innovation in wet wipe manufacturing. We feel we fit right in, because we pride ourselves on being innovators. We’ll be showing off our Rebel IML wet wipe canisters. These things aren’t just beautiful to look at. They are so tough even a caveman can’t crush them. And kids can’t ding them. Plus, they are 1000-percent recyclable. The show runs March 28-31. It’s the biggest event of its kind for our industry. Hope to see you there!

Free Ukraine

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For a Free Ukraine

In 1979 as a 23 year old I studied in Kracow, Poland, as an exchange student for six months. I got an up-close look at what it was like to live under Soviet occupation. Let me tell you, it was a grim everyday experience. My status as an American gained me access to many resistance leaders who would later take part in the 1980 Solidarity uprising. That followed the election of Cardinal Karol Wojtyla as Pope John Paul II; and formation of the first legal trade union in Gdansk. So I get it about the war in Ukraine. I know why the Ukrainians are resisting the Russian invasion so fiercely. It is why you see the flag of Ukraine flying at our facilities, side by side with the American flag. We are not alone. Rebel Converting is part of a rising tide. American businesses are increasingly of one mind when it comes to Putin’s Russia. We are done with him and his criminal regime. Long live a free and independent Ukraine.
-Mike

Thanks to Ozaukee Press

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A Shoutout To The Ozaukee Press

Thank you to The Ozaukee Press for their nice writeup on our ongoing Saukville expansion. We recently sold our original facility at 700 N. Progress Dr. and will be consolidating operations at our new location at 655 N. Dekora Woods Blvd. That location, acquired in 2021, will undergo a major expansion, nearly doubling its current footprint of 98,600 square foot. The plan is for a 78,500-square-foot addition to the north side of the plant. It’s going to include office and employee common areas and slightly more than 70,000 square feet of climate-controlled manufacturing space. Our corporate headquarters and main plant remains at 11225 W. Heather Avenue in northwest Milwaukee. We thank the Village of Saukville for expediting development of this project. We’re proud to be part of the fabric of the Saukville community. It will always have a special place in our hearts as the place where we began in business. Read the entire article here.

The new rebelconverting.com

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The New rebelconverting.com

If you’ve been away from our website for awhile, you’re seeing some pretty big changes. For the better part of a year, at the height of the pandemic, we gave rebelconverting.com over to activism. The business was going great guns, thank you. We felt it more important to support COVID mitigation. It turned into a huge team effort involving many companies throughout southeastern Wisconsin. And also countless private groups and individuals who volunteered to make free face masks from our kits. The campaign was part of the nationwide 100 Millions Masks Project launched by Oregon’s Providence Health Network. We made and gave away three million masks to health workers, first responders, elder care professionals… on and on. This thing took on such momentum, even the Milwaukee Bucks got involved. But, with the pandemic on the run finally, and mask mandates slowly but surely being repealed all across America, it was time for Rebel Converting to refocus on our core businesses. Rest assured that benevolence will remain a big part of who we are. Now, however, we have a whole separate website for that, rebelreform.org.
-Mike