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AIR CONVEYING CORPORATION is a recognized leader in the industry of Pneumatic Conveying Systems and has been in business since 1968. As an equipment manufacturer rather than simply a sales organization, we have complete control over the quality of material and products which make up your proposed system. Our equipment is found in Printing, Folding Carton and Corrugated plants throughout the country and the world.
gives the company an opportunity to get in the door of the big companies that operate or have a presence in Utah. Right now, those companies are serving customers in the healthcare, supplement, beauty, clothing, shoes, choco- lates, food & beverage industries. “We believe once somebody goes with inside/outside print, they never want to go back to a brown box,” Lauren says. “It’s a ‘sticky’ product and we’re one of the only ones in the Intermountain West with the capability to do it in the one machine pass. An undeniable entrepreneur at heart, Jerry has em- braced virtually every opportunity along the way to diver- sify. A few years after he built the box plant, he acquired a foam business that is under the Wasatch Container umbrel-
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la. A wood crate business followed, as did the purchase of a 67,000-square-foot building nearby for the operation of those complementary operations, which today represents about a third of the company’s business. Customers for those products are primarily in the military and aerospace industry. In 2019, Jerry acquired Tharco, now known as Box Essentials, Wasatch’s stock box division, which Lau- ren oversees. Finding Your Dream Lauren has been with Wasatch Container in the sales division for 10 years and is also focusing on the adminis- trative side, overlooking the Human Resources and IT de- partments. “When it’s a family business, you end up doing a bit of everything,” she says. “Wherever there’s a fire, I go.” Though the print business is in her blood, Jerry insisted she sample the waters outside of the packaging industry just to be sure, and Lauren agreed. At 25, she wanted to blaze her own path and wasn’t sure if packaging was her dream. She pursued a degree in finance and landed a job at U.S. Bank right out of college. Learning about person- al/business finances, what makes a company successful and not successful was a great prerequisite to owning a business. Eventually, though, she contemplated a career A representative sample of Wasatch's multiple product offer- ings are on display the lobby of the company's facility.
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