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Most people in the paving and pavement maintenance business don't think of asphalt in waves, but Nick Howell, president of T&N Asphalt Services, does.

A full-service pavement maintenance company in Salt Lake City that celebrates its 10th anniversary this year, T&N Asphalt has gone through waves of changes on its way to becoming the successful contracting company it is today.

"It's been a continual fine-tuning process and I'm still learning," Howell says. "That's one of the great things about this industry."

Founded as a striping company in 1997, T&N Asphalt Services moved quickly into pavement maintenance "because the demand was huge." A small acquisition brought sealcoating equipment and a customer list, and T&N's first wave was cresting.

"We wanted to be the biggest and the baddest, and for a while things were going well," says Howell, who joined the Pavement Advisory Board this year. "At one point I think we had just about every piece of equipment you could own."