New England Electropolishing owners Amy Prigmore and Luke Almeida discussed how their company in Fall River, Massachusetts, has evolved since their parents founded it in 1985.
Alvin and Jeannine Almeida founded NEE and slowly grew the business over the next several decades. Al Almeida kept his day job distributing chemicals, and NEE had just two employees who performed the work Al brought to them.
“He kept his full-time job to pay the bills and was doing the electropolishing work at night,” Prigmore says of her father. “Although he did have a couple employees, he would go hardcore on the weekends with the assistance of friends and relatives. Dad was extremely fortunate to have a lot of support at the time.”
Luke Almeida was just six when his dad started the company, but he recalls vividly how hard his mother and father worked to get it going.
“We grew up with the business, especially since it was in our house,” he says. “I remember our laundry room held our accounts receivable and accounts payable records, and our dining room was the office. We had a typewriter and an IBM computer, and our mother was involved in helping get it started. It was all around you, even if you weren't in the shop. I remember him taking us to the shop on the weekends or evenings.
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