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AIM RECLAIM AND CHINA: |
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This is Aim Reclaim in a nutshell. It all started in 1992 when Dutchman Thijs Cox visited Beijing for a short holiday. Not with the intention to become a "waste paper trader". Met enthusiastically by the export manager of ＾KNP BT Paper Recycling￣ of the Netherlands, Cox was selling the first lots of carrier board in bales and sending a fax to the home front that he would not return from his holiday a couple of weeks later... more... |
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After a certain period the business became more professional. Thijs Cox established his name and was getting more and more busy. It was impossible to run his second office in Tianjin together with the Beijing business. In the beginning of 1996 Louis Hoogendoorn, who had come to China in 1994, joined Cox and transformed the representative office in Tianjin into a wholly foreign owned company. "Thijs already built up a stable customer base, so for me it was just a matter of keeping the customers satisfied and promoting new products. After ＾KNP BT Paper Recycling￣ was transformed from an export oriented company to a service company to serve their own paper mills, we stopped acting as an agent for them. This meant more risks for our own company, but we went through the learning curve in the first years." more... |
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"I have a customer who claimed a weight loss. When I went there to see the goods, I found out that the paper was transported by hungry donkeys who were eating our waste paper and causing the weight loss! " |