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Article: Desbarats developer scrapes a living off the highways.(TOP 5 YOUNG ENTREPRENEURS)(Kevin Karhi's Edwin Plow System)
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- Northern Ontario Business
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- August 1, 2005
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Kevin Karhi subscribes to the mantra of working smarter, not harder. The 31-year-old Desbarats native (east of Sault Ste. Marie) and budding entrepreneur has developed an innovative and patented snowplow system that can handle the bumps and grids of frozen Northern Ontario highways.
The system features a quick-change cutting edge for highway snowplows and graders, a system he has spent the last three years developing.
He has spun off his own company, Inverta Corp., to develop and market the product.
The idea was germinated while working in his family business, Karhi Contracting, along the North Shore of Lake Huron and spending many hours ...