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Spec Engineering Gray Solutions
with Brian Bernard with Walker Mattox
President Chief Executive Officer
As leaders, we need to ask questions. In wrapping Gray Solutions has had a BIG year! We are now
up this fiscal year, many questions come to mind: over 200 team members and growing! We have
What are we doing every day to make our team successfully graduated from integration as part of
members' lives better? What are we doing every day the merger with Stone Technologies. Gray Solutions
to make our customers' lives better? How can we is continuing to build upon the many things that have
continue to be better as a team? proven successful for Stone over the last 25 years,
Since last October, Spec has doubled our team and with our entrepreneurial spirit, we look to create
member count in organic growth. We focused one cohesive team. Recently, we were fortunate to
6 heavily on recruiting this year to ensure that we bring have all our team members together for the first time
the right resources in-house in order to complete in St. Louis, Missouri to celebrate during the Gray
larger and more complex process system projects. Solutions Annual Meeting and Stone Technologies’
Spec won three major systems projects this year: 25th Anniversary.
a chemical blending system for a pool chemical Gray Solutions has had several changes to
manufacturer, a complete production line for high- improve quality of life for our Solutioneers. We rolled
performance construction materials, and a systems out our Work From Anywhere Policy, including
integration project with a high profile battery cell financial assistance for those not in our hubs
manufacturer. We are also very proud of securing a regularly. More exciting changes are coming to our
large order for control panels for a key manufacturer bonus process and time off policies as we strive to
of COVID-19 test kits, a project that we partnered live up to our vision of being a company where the
with Anderson Dahlen. With a larger, stronger, and best want to belong.
scalable team, we are positioned for successful As we move into more complex and larger
execution of these larger and more complex projects, we have expanded our advanced
projects. We will be going into the next fiscal year automation team and are working to open our
with a healthy backlog and quite a few more large Innovation Center on Winchester Road in Lexington,
projects on the horizon. KY. This center will house state-of-the-art technology
Looking back, we had an overall successful fiscal including robotics, automated guided vehicles, and
year 2021, but we spent much of the year adapting advanced vision systems all integrated with custom
and setting the groundwork for next year. With a advanced material handling equipment and controls.
low average tenure on our team, our focus for next This facility will be the center point for all customer
year will be on training and development. We are solutions to be proved and tested and will allow
continuing the Gray theme of how to make a more everyone to see advanced automation come to life.
collaborative and cohesive team. We know that This center will also host tours for students.
with trained and engaged team members, every As we look into 2022, we feel very blessed to
customer will win with Spec. have had such a great year of growth, and a strong
foundation for our future.
