History of Apollo HVLP Spray Systems

operated companies so yeah yeah you know um Apollo was originally founded in 1966 in uh in England and it was actually one of my father's friends that started the company and there still isn't Apollo sprayers in the UK right now which is a separate business from ours um but in the late 70s um we brought the product over to the US and started um selling it to Woodworkers and contractors and things like that and uh we basically um pioneered HVLP in this country there's been other brands that have come and gone since then but we're actually the oldest original manufacturer that still focuses just on HVLP turbine systems um my father has been doing it since like I said the late 70s um I became introduced into the company I remember as a little kid going to our little 500 square foot factory at the time and my dad would U build in bring in kits from England at that time and and we'd assemble them in the evening and then he'd load them into the car and the next day he'd go off and do some demos and sell them all and then come back and we' do the same thing and that's kind of how we started the business you know and things have grown obviously a lot since since those early days um but I think the biggest thing is that I've grown up in this business right um my dad's owned it uh since started it since I was around 13 years old and kind of like the same with what my son's been able to do now too so you kind might say that turbine systems are in our blood right uh and because it's our passion uh it's something that we do um and we try to do the very best right whenever I do anything in my life period I don't like to do something half-ass I just like to go after it if I'm really going to do something I try to put 110% into it right and that's what we do here here at Apollo everything that we do is built um around the contractor we listen to our customers that's how we're able to improve our our product you know I can't take the credit for everything that we have and what we've done today um because a lot of it has come from our customers and just listening to our customers and understanding what their pains are and how we can help them to have a better piece of equipment that's easier to use that performs better and so forth and that's really at the heart of what Apollo is all about I would highly recommend you know anybody doing cabinets anybody um doing Furniture anybody doing rod iron fences that they