In 2016, Conveyor Solutions, Inc. (Schaumburg, IL) will celebrate its 20th Anniversary. The company has grown considerably since its founding. For 20 years, its core principles remain the same and have not only carried Conveyor Solutions through its first 20 years, but have it primed to grow even larger going forward. At the heart of the company’s success is a forward-thinking willingness to change and evolve with the times. Before President Scott Lee co-founded the company in 1996, he had worked in a Fortune 500 company while going to school to get his MBA. "I knew within three months that this wasn’t the job for me," says Lee. "I couldn’t foster and grow in that environment." Lee stayed with the company until he finished his MBA and then went to work for a small distributor in the material handling industry. "I knew within a year that this was something that I had to be involved with at an ownership level," he says. "Twenty years ago, we were a very black and blue industry. The industry was slow to adapt and incorporate new technologies. The opportunities for someone just out of college with a degree in engineering and an MBA to come in and implement technology and networks and computers, were excellent. I really felt like I was getting in on the ground floor and I knew I needed to own something of my own." So, just after July 4, 1996, Lee and co-founder Joe Tholl started Conveyor Solutions in a room in Joe’s house. "When we first started the company, we were focusing primarily on conveyor systems," says Lee. "We were handling projects from cradle to grave, meaning from concept, design, drawings, engineering, installation, start up, and service. We were truly a conveyor systems integrator, just at a small […]