If you see someone trying to rip a restaurant menu, that person might work for Yupo Corp. America in Chesapeake.
Yupo doesn’t always know where its massive rolls and stacks of tree-free paper end up after they’re sent to printers, who turn it into detergent labels, cookbooks, airline baggage tickets and hospital bracelets that can’t be torn. That’s when the rip test or the Google search for “waterproof” books happen.