Hank and Shane VanVeen grew up around their father’s cleaning business, eventually joining it as employees. “Our dad owned the cleaning business for 25 years, so we were involved to one degree or another since we were knee-high,” says Hank.
But when the business was sold to a larger corporation, the brothers found they didn’t fit in with the new corporate culture, and so they launched a company of their own. They started by focusing on wastewater treatment plant services, including tank and lagoon pumping and aeration basin, wet well and digester cleaning, but soon expanded into long-term municipal biosolids management
