About

Berg Mill Supply Co., Inc.’s inception was in the early 1920s as California Mill Supply and Berg Metals Corporation. These companies were fully integrated waste paper, scrap metals (including smelter and refiners), textiles, and all allied secondary metals and fibers.

For some 30 years beginning in the early 1930s, California Mill Supply was the sole supplier to the Pioneer Flintkote Co. (with mills in Los Angeles and the San Francisco area), which used some 15,000 tons per month of various waste paper grades and for which Roger Berg had full responsibility.

In 1962, Flintkote bought out California Mill Supply and, in turn, Flintkote then sold off their mills. At this juncture, Roger Berg, the son of the owners, formed Berg Mill Supply. Subsequently, Berg Mill--following in the tradition of its predecessors--became a major supplier to domestic and Pacific Rim mills.

Originally, Berg Mill was also an integrated waste material dealer of all forms of secondary materials. But in the past five years or so, our focus has been on the waste paper industry and surging sources of recyclable scrap plastics.

With our change in focus, we established an office in the Fresno, California area and in the San Francisco bay area. These new offices are primarily export-oriented with a focus mainly toward the Pacific Rim (including mainland China) and sales to Europe; but our long-term strategy has always been a 50-50 balance between export and domestic sales.

Our shift in emphasis, along with an increased support staff, has increased our size and scope. Currently, our monthly domestic and export tonnages exceed 30,000 tons per month in plastics and in the bulk grades of DLK, OCC, ONP, and MXD paper, although our firm is also actively engaged in the converting roll market.

Berg Mill Supply Co., Inc. is exclusively engaged in domestic sales, while our other corporation, Classic Fibres, Inc., is exclusively engaged in export sales. Both corporations are 100% owned by Roger Berg as privately-held corporations (with succession in place). Other holdings include a 50% ownership of Basic Fibres, Inc., an integrated Los Angeles plant dealing in waste paper, aluminum, plastic and glass.

Berg Mill has a 35-year relationship with Recology Inc., the garbage contractor for the city of San Francisco and is the largest privately-owned entity of its kind.  (Norcal Waste Systems, Inc formally changed its name to Recology in 2009.)  Berg Mill also is a joint-venture partner with Gold Coast Recycling, the company that handles the MRF collections for the County of Ventura. Berg Mill, in turn, handles sales of all the waste paper, plastic, and glass Gold Coast Recycling generates. Additional contract MRF relationships are with Waste Connections Inc. (an international company) and a privately-held MRF in Orem, Utah.

Our name “Berg,” thanks to my forefathers and our continuance of their eminence in the business, is known across the U.S. and overseas. We are well known to be “men of our word,” as our following of customers/friends throughout the world will attest.

Sincerely,

Roger Berg
CEO

Sales Staff (photos)

Roger Berg, CEO
Paul Sardell, President
William Winchester, Vice President of Sales
Daniel Marks, Vice President 
Kesiah Cordova, Chief Finanical Officer
Glen Martens, Marketing Manager