Good times, bad times: Irving Granovsky has been through it all during his nearly 50 years at the forefront of the Canadian paper business. As chairman of the Toronto-based Atlantic Packaging Products Ltd.—which has just celebrated its 60th anniversary last year—the colorful, straight-shooting, and proudly patriotic Granovsky has seen a fair share of the industry's notorious boom-and-bust cycles come and go, while steadily steering his family-owned business from humble beginnings in the paper-bag business into one of country's leading independent producers of containerboard, paper tissue, newsprint, polybags and paper bags.
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