Owner Mike Flaherty likes to say three things haven’t changed about his family’s company, Advanced Pollution Control (APC) Corp., since it was founded by his father in 1975: dedication to customers, a family atmosphere and hardworking crews.Many pumpers will point to traits like these to explain how their companies have survived and thrived. But APC has another successful formula other pumping contractors could learn from: tapping revenue growth and profits available through industrial vacuum excavation, a backbone service of the Bridgewater, Massachusetts, company.APC started with a specialty in serving power plants and wastewater treatment plants. Through the years, the business
