Organized crime is not just a problem in East merchants. Chicago-plant in the departing paper manufacturer Myllykoski now tells what it was like a Finnish company's daily rotation, at worst, the American Mafia.
Manufactures printing papers Myllykoski said on Monday sold another U.S. factory, located in Alsip, Illinois, a private equity company.
Factory managed to have a Finnish-owned since 2000. The company does not reveal the purchase price, but the whole operation Myllykoski says registering for this year by 35 million euro loss.
Alsip one paper fine paper mill is a relatively young plant, it was established in 1966. The plant has 148 employees.
Mill rapids before the factory managed to be the owner of the now three. Each of these has apparently noticed the same turn: the Chicago mafia has manufacturing locations in this region a strong say in many small matter.
Now Myllykosken leadership is able to tell what's weird Alsipissa in the early millennium, the owner immediately after the shift.
Outside were edged
factory expansion
Finnish owner started the old-time,'observed the factory big reform projects, extensions, and hardware upgrades. Newsprint from waste paper manufactured by the factory was fully renovated in magazine paper producer.
- When the factory was taken for further investment, licensing and contracting process had such features, which we have never encountered elsewhere in the United States, Myllykoski CEO Sverre Norrgård says.
Permission hidastelivat papers and plans stood. The trade unions, partners, and oversaw the city's population, who the factory was recruiting.
- American leaders told always get little problems that seemed to be impossibly difficult to solve. For example, we could choose for themselves the validity of the workers, but always came to a party and say why this or that person's salary is not the case, Norrgård says.
Tehdaskiinteistön also the safety and security in contracting genuine competition was almost impossible to achieve. Subcontract works, many known only one volunteer.
- I do not know why such activities should be organized to invite. Generally, such a joint consultation with a game made somewhere in Russia, mainly in remote areas, Norrgård says.
Only when paper production reached a renovated to boot, the situation calmed down.
- No, we never have the actual paper with the workers had difficulties, they are knowledgeable professionals, Norrgård says.
Mafia suhmuroi public
Procurement and Planning
Myllykosken experienced complications are quite familiar to business people in the Chicago area.
American organized crime, according to researchers in the region have already acted in hundreds of years the Mafia group, "The Outfit," has lost its power in the traditional gaming business. The trade union movement, it is not anymore so than at your fingertips, even if its a decade ago.
Yet, the mafia has until the 2000s was an extract from the moneyed many Illinois public procurement, subsidies to the industry and the officials responsible for planning.
Several milling factory Touch particular time of the acquisition were controlled by senior local politicians are now forced to the right contacts with the mafia, and even outright yrityskiristyksistä.
Among other things, the Governor of Illinois 1999-2003 George H. Ryan worked a few years ago was sentenced to prison for dozens of lahjusrötöksistä and abuse.
Mafiosi did not come esittäytymään
Sverre Norrgård says that he has not watched The Sopranos and other mafia television series, and did not know if it was Alsip early days of the normal rotation of this mafia-day hustle.
- I do not remember to have heard that people in the factory should be pressured in any way with any person, "he says.
Myllykosken-American leaders are reportedly not been awakened to the movie The Godfather-like hevosenpää bed.