Steve Taplin has been cleaning up since he was a kid. His father and mother started a cluster of companies in Kalamazoo, Michigan, under the name of A&B Sewer Cleaning and Taplin was well on his way to learning the ins and outs of the business by 16.
A&B evolved from residential sewer and septic work to municipal sewer cleaning and industrial services and eventually to other related enterprises. For 30 years, Taplin worked hands-on across this spectrum of services. He watched the original company evolve into several successful companies. In the 1990s, he spun off an environmental remediation services company
