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It was just 11 years ago that a couple of entrepreneurs in central Florida took a deep breath and jumped into the road construction market with just one dozer and a single employee. Today, P & S Paving Inc. of Daytona Beach, FL has 240 full-time employees who operate millions of dollars worth of state-of-the-art hot-mix-asphalt (HMA) production equipment, as well as sophisticated milling and paving equipment.

"We might have started out small," says Tim Phillips, president of P & S Paving, "but today our annual sales are more than $65 million. We're proud of that record."

P & S Paving operates within a 60-mile radius north, west and south of its Daytona Beach asphalt production facility.

"When we started, we were just doing site work," Phillips recalls. "All of our paving work was sub-contracted to other companies. But in about our fourth year, we realized that we needed to make our own hot mix and lay it. That's when we went out and bought an old 1956 Cedarapids batch plant."

Over the next four years, the firm continued to grow. Phillips says his company was producing approximately 100,000 tons of hot-mix per year with the old batch plant when he and his brother, Todd, began to consider a more modern, more productive plant.