Business View Magazine | June 2019

127 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE JUNE 2019 philosophy that if there’s bad news, I want them to hear it from me. And they like that.” Ben’s sons, Christopher and Levi, are both active in the business. He jokes, “One of these days they’ll tell me I’m old and kick me out, but not until it’s time. Seriously, we want to continue controlled growth in our industry, to look at acquisitions. If the right opportunity comes along, we’re prepared to take a look. To be successful for the next 100 years, we need to be extremely careful in the workspace environment and not create liabilities. We have to be smart businesspeople to navigate the times we’re in. It would be easy to sell a lot of work today, but not be able to produce it because we don’t have the employees. The number one focus for the future is to make sure we take care of our customer base. “We have a real family environment here. We call ourselves the PTTG family and that’s who and what we are. Our safety culture, our commitment to serving our customers, and fulfilling our contracts and obligations are very important. We’re also active in the community of Henderson. A good number of our employees serve on different boards and committees in the school system, we have a large presence with the United Way, we have close ties with the Community College. We work well with the city and the county, being a good corporate member. With our 100th year anniversary, there’s been a lot of press, so the community really knows our story now, and we’re proud to share it.” P I TTSBURG TANK & TOWER GROUP pictured Pittsburg Tank Ground Division erected these 3,000,000-gallon API tanks in Bainbridge, Georgia.