As one of the original founding partners of 3D, people often ask me how it all started. Like many things in life, it was a collection of circumstances that all came together at the right time. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Back in 1991, Todd Scott, Tony Evers and I all worked at Interroll Canada. Todd was Sales Manager for Dynamic Storage Products (Pushback, Pallet Flow, Carton Flow), Tony was VP of production and I wore the design\/sales hat. At the time Interroll Canada was a franchise. The owner sold the franchise back to Interroll Corporate in Switzerland, Corporate sent in a new president, the recession of 1991-2 hit, and Todd and Tony found themselves unemployed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Todd and I had always felt the market for\u00a0pushback racking<\/a>\u00a0was going to continue to grow, and saw a niche for a low profile structural system. We decided to start a new company focused strictly on high-density storage components and incorporated 3D in March of 1992. As a side note, 3D was supposed to represent Dynamic, High Density, Designs, but we also joked that it stood for 3 Dummies starting a business during a recession.<\/p>\n\n\n\n We spent the first 4-6 months working on a design \u2013 Todd created concepts using graph paper and coloured pencils (Manual CAD), I would fine tune them in AutoCAD, and Tony would fabricate the prototypes using the basic tools and a stick welder in our brand new 3000 square foot facility. Needless to say, there was a lot of grinding and re-welding. \u00a0After many trials and tests, we had invented the first low profile structural steel cart\u00a0pushback rack system<\/a>\u00a0and applied for and received US and Canadian Patents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Along the way our customers challenged us to provide new products and solutions. 5 and 6 deep pushback was added to our product line. \u00a0We branched into\u00a0pallet flow racking<\/a>, offering\u00a0skate wheels<\/a>,\u00a0polycarbonate wheels<\/a>, and\u00a0rollers<\/a>. GM was looking for a\u00a0heavy duty carton flow<\/a>\u00a0and so we developed our full wheel bed product that is second to none in the industry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Our facilities and equipment have grown over the years as well. Today we fabricate our products in a 50,000 square foot purpose-built plant and have added automated saws, a 400\u2019 long powder coat paint line and robotic welding cells.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Tony moved on in 2002 and Todd has since passed away, but with my partners Mike Scott (Todd\u2019s son) and Cameron Wynn (who started with us as an assembler in the back of the shop) we continue to strive to grow our business, serve our customers with quality dynamic storage products and have a little fun along the way.
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If you have any questions or comments regarding 3D Storage Systems, please feel free to\u00a0contact us<\/a>\u00a0today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n