It was a special day on Thursday, July 11, 2019 at Lorenz Conveying Products celebrating its 40th anniversary in Cobourg.
What started out in a garage, has grown into a company that employees 60 people on a eight acre property with two sales people located in the United States.
The company started in 1979 in a garage on Murray Crescent in Cobourg.
“This is a big day,” said Peter Lorenz, President of the Company.
“A lot of companies don’t survive this long. We’ve done very well and we’ve had 35-year employees. It’s great to see it grow to where it is now and we couldn’t have done it without the tremendous support from our people.”
“Family is very important to us, we always try to participate in Santa Claus parades, Halloween parties and we usually have a barbeque before every long weekend.”
Thursday’s celebration the company brought in a food truck from Picton.
Peter Lorenz said the company started after his father, Ed Lorenz invented a “Lorenz clamp.”
“I actually used to cut the pieces in our garage with a hack-saw when I was a kid in high school.”
“When I was in my twenties he sent me out on the road and said, “here go sell these things.”
Forty years later the company has grown to make a variety of products dry, material handling systems, which are commonly called pneumatic conveying. The company makes the elbows, couplings, diverter valves, slide-gates and a variety of products for that industries.
Lorenz Convey Products sells to areas across Canada , USA , Mexico , South America , New Zealand, Australia, Germany and England.
They just recently acquired a small company in Illinios which Lorenz said will be expanding their market base.
Back in the day the company used to be called Lorenz & Son, but Lorenz said they thought for advertising globally they changed it to Lorenz Conveying Products because “it actually tells people what we do.”
Standing alongside his parents Ed and Diane, the family cut the ribbon on the ED-ucational Centre at the company.
Lorenz said the centre is a meeting place which allows the company to have a variety of activities including meetings, training on safety for employees and demonstrating products.
Previously the company only had a very small board room.
Inside the Ed-ucational Centre are products the company makes which actually work so people can see how they work.
“We’re looking forward to the future and the growth of the company to be stronger and better and take on the world.”
Author: Pete Fisher
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