The Hanvey Story
- Innovations and Vision of a Groomer's Son and Engineer -
Curtis Hanvey Jr. graduated from Clemson University in Clemson, SC. He obtained a Bachelors of Science degree in Materials/Ceramic Engineering and specialized in equipment design and glass production. He went on to work as a production/special project engineer for ten years at PPG Industries, a “Fortune 50” company located in Pittsburgh, PA, in the Fiberglass Division. There was something special about helping his mom with her career, however, that sparked a different kind of passion in him.
She had begun a pet-grooming endeavor, and Curtis found himself designing and building grooming equipment after she introduced him to the Atlanta Pet Fair trade show in 1992. He recalls, “Yes, my mom put the guilt trip on me. Since I am her son and a design engineer, she wanted good, no, great tools and equipment to work with. I started creating the first version of the LIPSystem because the old-style grooming arm kept falling and hitting her dogs across the head. It was not called the LIPSystem at that time.”
This grooming mechanism was born to overcome the failures of the standard grooming arm and provide additional safety for both the groomer and the dog. “I really enjoyed helping her and really loved seeing that I could design away many of her hassles just like I had already been doing in my ‘professional career’ with PPG Industries,” Curtis explains. Eventually, he left his position with PPG with a vision to provide the pet grooming industry with time-efficient, money-saving products that would revolutionize the groomer's workday, ones similar to the LIPSystem. Curtis’s dream and hard work led to the creation and establishment of Hanvey Specialty Engineering in 1995.
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