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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