Whyrick helps steer road firm

When Kevin Whyrick joined EnviroTech, a Greeley-based company that develops products to improve road maintenance methods, the company had 10 employees. That was 1996. Now it has 90 employees and an additional 40 people working at its subsidiary in Toronto, Canada.

“Over the last 20 years, we’ve grown at about 30 percent annually,” Whyrick said. “It’s slowed down right now to about 10 to 15 percent, but we had a lot of growth early on.”

Whyrick attributes much of the growth to innovation. EnviroTech’s chemists have developed some game-changing products including a salt product that melts 30 to 40 percent more snow…