Other individuals and businesses are still waiting for resolution of acquisition, personnel and product issues with Benpac Holding Inc.
Former W. Amsler Equipment Inc. CEO Bruce Coxhead said he is owed $198,000 as part of a severance package after being constructively dismissed.
"I was never paid, and I've gone through about $50,000 in fees for lawyers who never got anywhere with it. So, I'm owed about a quarter million bucks, which I would like to have," Coxhead said.
Instead, the mechanical engineer said he has received threatening letters from Corvi in the last couple years.
"He's demanding money from me, saying I ruined the business," Coxhead said.
Benpac also pursued acquisitions of at least five other companies, but didn't complete the deals, according to Coxhead. Several are in the U.S. and in Canada.
In another matter, Ernie Hernandez, the owner of Corona, Calif.-based Lighthouse Packaging LLC, paid $13,850 to "Amsler, a Benpac company" for a spin trimmer for its bottle production plant in 2021.
The checks were cashed but the equipment that handles 6,000 bottles an hour never arrived.
Corvi pointed to delivery address problems and promised the machine would ship soon in a May 30 email to Hernandez.
On July 20, 2023, Hernandez, who was still waiting, responded: "It's been another two months since your last email and I still don't have a machine. What is the problem? Your representation is actually the one that's incorrect. It completely defies logic, why on earth would I not accept machine delivery last fall as you say you proposed? I've been begging you to deliver this machine for two years now. All you have to do is ship it to me. Nothing else. I don't need a technician or anything for the startup. My address has not changed in seven years so there should be absolutely no confusion on your side."
To help out, St. Louis-based Lectro Engineering Co. Inc. adjusted its build schedule —with some overtime hours covered by the owner — to get a spin trimmer to Lighthouse Packaging in April 2022.
