Ohio Blow Pipe opens a subsidiary in Martinsville, Virginia, called Advanced Air Systems to increase capacity and installation services. 

C&M Conveyor relocates to its current facility in Mitchell, Indiana to accommodate growth.

Ohio Blow Pipe begins to manufacture its own line of proprietary cutter conveyor and material handling fans.

C&M Conveyor expands its facility to 44,000 square feet and installs its initial Computer Inventory Management System (CIMS), a fully automated work-in-process staging and flow management system for product flow and order tracking throughout an entire plant using a Rockwell platform.

Through a joint venture with Camfil, Ohio Blow Pipe develops its CLEANAIR line of dust collectors.


C&M Conveyor introduces a mesh top belt conveyor that eliminates “sheet-walk” and provides an improved handling surface for all types of hard-to-convey materials. It also provides a work surface for operators involved in base sheet insertion, load preparation for strapping or operator crossings.

C&M Conveyor completes major systems and process improvement initiatives, incorporating cellular manufacturing techniques and lean thinking programs.

Ohio Blow Pipe develops the pit-belt system that marries a continuous overhead belt with a pneumatic air system to create energy efficiencies for customers.

Ohio Blow Pipe designs, engineers and manufactures its ROTOVEYOR system for International Paper. This system helps significantly reduce International Paper’s energy costs.

C&M Conveyor introduces its fully automated pallet dispensing solution, dispensing single pallets from a stack, handling both wooden and plastic pallets of varying sizes and designs.

C&M Conveyor introduces its innovative bundle conveyer with modular ball belt to give box plants the ability to side-shift, right-angle transfer in one or two directions, rotate and load build—all on a smaller footprint.

C&M Conveyor introduces its patent-protected mesh ball rotation conveyor that provides a rollerless surface to rotate single/multiple stacks of material with and without dunnage, offering faster rotation and increased stability and safety.

C&M Conveyor acquires Ohio Blow Pipe to become a single-source conveyance solution for industry from product and material and waste conveyance to air-quality management.

Innoveyance is formed when C&M Conveyor and Ohio Blow Pipe combine under the Innoveyance name.

C&M Conveyor develops a mesh transfer conveyor that provides transfer of material in three directions using a stable platform with ball belt mesh conveyor, continuing to push innovative product development and increased productivity.