BRUCE WHETTER
Whetter purchased the assets of the old Americhem Corporations 19 acre site in 1998 and renamed the company Americhem Sales Corporation. The previous owners of the old Americhem Corporation were not responsible chemical distributors and thus, contaminated a portion of the site. Whetter negotiated a Covenant Not To Sue (CNTS) with the State of Michigan, as well as the AGs office, and then finalized the purchase of the assets of Americhem Corporation.
Whetter and the MDEQ immediately began a comprehensive long term plan to clean up the site, managed by the MDEQ. The employees of the old Americhem Corporation would have lost their jobs, the company would have been closed and the City of Mason left without tax revenue, had the CNTS not been granted to Whetter. With the CNTS in place, Whetter then had the protection he needed to go forward with purchasing the assets of the old Americhem Corporation without assuming any environmental liability, thus a win-win situation was created.
