It’s not hard to hear the passion Mike Flaherty has for his company. Now owner of Advanced Pollution Control (APC) Corporation, Flaherty has been involved with the company since 1977, when his dad owned it. His passion is just as strong now as it was 40 years ago.“We are hard to compete against because there’s quite a lot of pride here,” says Flaherty, 64. “To last 42 years I think is an accomplishment, and we still have some of the same customers we had back then.”The company, based in Bridgewater, Massachusetts, started off with a specialty in serving power plants
