How much junk mail do you get every day? You are not alone. Every house gets tons of daily mail that most people don’t even read; they just toss it in the trash. 

Now look around you ... can you identify all the things made with paper? You may not know it, but there’s much more than the literal paper products. A lot of other every-day products make use of paper, such as:

• Tissues & cardboard boxes

• Stereo speakers

• Electrical plugs

• Home insulation

• Sole inserts in tennis shoes

• and much more

About 300 million tons of paper is used worldwide each year. America, with just 5 percent of the entire world’s population, uses 30 percent of all the paper produced.

Alex Fielding is CEO and co-founder of Ripcord, the first robotic digitization company in the world. His leadership role makes him responsible for the company’s vision and execution. 

Fielding has spent most of his career working on projects that involve the development of communications and networking products as well as advanced research to fulfill his passions: security, energy efficiency, the power of data, and helping to inspire and educate the workforce of the future.

In an interview with the online magazine entrepreuneur.com, Fielding talked about how it was for him growing up; His parents had the same routine every morning through his childhood. They would wake at 5 a.m. and go to their local mosque, where his dad waited in the car while his mom went inside to pray. Then they went to the Roman Catholic church, where his dad went inside to pray and his mom went home to care for him and his siblings.

He explained that he thought this was fairly normal as a kid, but as an adult, he realized that it was special; two people from different religions who loved each other so much they never challenged each other’s beliefs.

Finally, in 2014, Alex Fielding co-founded Ripcord, on a mission to make the world paperless.

Ripcord uses sophisticated software and automation to provide clients with fast, secure, and all-inclusive solutions for records management, at affordable prices.

The company is the first organization to use vision robotics in paper digitization. Paper records are a recurring nightmare for many businesses. They aren’t secure and take up real estate. With Ripcord, the paper records that are trapped in warehouses can be made into meaningful data.

Ripcord uses robots to scan paper records and classify the data for cheaper, faster, and more accurate digitization. It then uses sophisticated software to uncover insights that can radically improve clients’ businesses.