Realizing that good business situations don't wait forever, Donald Snider, owner and CEO, quickly raised enough capital to assume the paper conversion interest of Midwest Paper. And with no previous experience, he started his own company.

His Detroit based company has enjoyed phenomenal success. After only four years of operations Paper-Plas was one of the fastest growing minority owned paper packaging companies in the United States. The company surpassed its $2 million sales goal in 1998 and expected to achieve revenues of $3 million by the beginning of 1999. The company offers customized chipboard, corrugated sheeting, coated papers and other products.

Snider feels he owes the company's success to his dedication to quality, cost reduction, customer service and to DaimlerChrysler Corporation's willingness to offer him the opportunity to provide a service.

In addition Snider opened his second plant in Milwaukee last year. He is currently doing business with four Fortune 500 Companies and has plans that will encourage others. (borrowed form "The Native Detroiter, 1998)

Today Paper-Plas lists among its customers DaimlerChrysler Corporation, Dana Perfect Circle Corporation and Hastings Manufacturing. Snider has also forged strategic alliances with Tenneco Packaging. In Milwaukee the company's largest customer is Rockwell-Allen Bradley.

Snider has received numerous awards and recognition for his entrepreneurial achievements and service to the community, including Black Enterprises magazine's Business Innovator 
of the Year.