Case Study
Coupling Safety With Flexibility
Page 1 Coupling Safety With Flexibility Case Study August 2014 When Edward Polen decided to change his careers as a pharmacist and chemical salesman in 1971 so that he could incorporate his own chemical packaging and distribution company in suburban Chicago, IL, he probably never envisioned that his E-M Co. would experience days like Aug. 6, 2013. That’s when Polen cut the ribbon on a new 300,000-square-foot corporate headquarters and dist