Seeing the opportunity to fill a niche — then accepting the risk and starting a business in 1992 — took Kelly Conger on a remarkable journey. His industrial cleaning company, Environmental Manage-ment Services Inc. in Davenport, Iowa, was soon responding to service calls in Wisconsin, Minnesota, Nebraska, Missouri and Illinois.The young company quickly expanded from decommissioning gasoline and paint storage tanks to planned outages at limestone mines and coal-fed power plants, non-hazardous industrial waste transportation, 24-hour emergency response, confined space rescue attendance and precious metals reclamation at aluminum and copper plants. Each new area usually required more equipment and the
