Business View Magazine | November 2020

31 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE NOVEMBER 2020 ENV I RONMENTAL PRODUCTS GROUP Florida. We opened our doors in 2002 building our team and introducing ourselves to our customer base throughout the state. Our first branch was in Central Florida, soon followed by a South Florida location. In 2010, we expanded our territory to include the State of Georgia with a branch in Atlanta. At this time we also added the Envirosight Inspection Systems.” “In 2014, we started our rental truck business, EP Rents, renting the products that we sold and serviced,” Haase continues. “We started with a few Vactor sewer cleaning combination trucks, and we realized that the rentals were a fantastic opportunity to support more customers. And although we started our business as a predominantly municipal house, we realized that to maintain and grow the business, it was necessary to be much more contractor-focused with private contractors that are involved in road building, sewer maintenance, and refuse collection. That’s helped us grow. We’ve gone from a very heavily concentrated municipal