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• The success of Anderson Industries is linked with the success of his father, Kevin Anderson.
• Kevin Anderson developed farm implements including the patented Anderson Opener. Anderson Machines, his father's business, began manufacturing agricultural equipment starting in the early 1980as. Kory Anderson bought those product lines in 2010.
• The most popular product is still the opener, Kory Anderson said. It opens and loosens the soil, places fertilizer in the ground, then places the seed on the firm seedbed at the desired planting depth.
• "The way it places seed and fertilizer allows farmers to get better yields," he said.
• Another of his father's business ventures has been a pipeline of orders to Anderson Industries.
• In 2000, Kevin Anderson formed a partnership with Horschcq, a German company, to make implements in Andover. Horsch is one of the largest manufactures of agricultural equipment in Europe. Horsch Anderson Equipment in Andover makes high-speed tillage systems, hillside planting systems, commodity air carts and other farm equipment.
• The business used to buy all the components for its implements from outside sources. Now Anderson Industries makes most of them.

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