Mel Phillips is the president and co-owner of Product Recovery Management, PRM Filtration, and Triangle Stainless, alongside his brother, Brian Phillips. Operating out of a 150,000 square-foot facility in Butner, North Carolina, PRM manufactures environmental treatment systems and offers field services for equipment, including installation, setup, and maintenance.

We covered:

• Overcoming growth barriers in a small business
• The journey from electrical contracting to environmental remediation
• The benefits of acquiring companies in related industries
• Growing up in the family business
• Keeping work at work
• How to learn and improve from mistakes
• Why Mel recommended his daughters go to college
• A decade of financial hardships – what you don’t see
• How to hire and keep good people
• Where the business is headed
• More

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