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Family Ties Leads to New Business Opportunity in North Oxford, Mass. When Wendell Barnes decided to from him” close his business, Wendell’s Welding, Kus did just that in 2006. his wife Lisa mentioned it to one of her Currently located in a 20,000 sq. ft. co-workers. When the co-worker went facility in North Oxford, Mass., home, she mentioned it to her husband, Custom Conveyors has nine employand such starts the story of how ees, including Kus’s son Eddie, who is Custom Conveyors began. in charge of production. Barnes, who “I was in the process of selling the had been building conveyors for more company I was working for and knew than 15 years, remains a part of the at the time the new owners would probbusiness. ably want to bring in their own man“We service the aggregate, wood agement team,” said Ed Kus. chip manufacturers, metal recycling, After spending six years managing a aggregate recycling, glass recycling construction company and 15 years of and trash recycling industries,” Kus management experience in manufacsaid. “Sixty percent of our business is turing, “I decided I was done working in radial stacking conveyors for the Ed Kus is the owner of Custom sand and stone producers. The numfor others,” Kus added. Kus and Barnes set up a meeting to Conveyors, North Oxford, Mass. ber one selling unit is the 36 by 60 talk about the business and its potential. diesel hydraulic self contained stack“After the meeting with Wendell, I knew this was a busi- er,” Kus said. ness that Wendell should not close. I told him, with my busiThe company also offers jump conveyors, overland conness background, including a degree in accounting and an veyors, static conveyors and screw conveyors from 5 to 500 MBA from Nichols College, I could run his business for him see CUSTOM page 4 and if what he told me was true, I would buy the business