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PROFILE

Clean principles

fuel car wash

business

By Brian Rodnick

Transchem Group

Respect is very important at vice-president. “That’s been the basis of Chatham, not far from the small village of
Transchem Group. our whole growth; we like doing nice things Tupperville, where Murray was raised. But
with good people.” farming just wasn’t in the cards for him.
For more than 40 years the family-owned
company has been an important player It’s an approach that has clearly worked “I knew my brother was always going to
in the car washing industry thanks to the for the company, which now encompasses have the farm. I was always a wannabe sci-
business philosophy of its founder and CEO several divisions and sees its many manu- entist,” he says, joking that he should have
Murray Ewing. factured products distributed worldwide. been a mathematician. “I realized I wasn’t a
These include chemical solutions, equip- lab chemist. I was something different.”
“We want good business with good peo- ment and parts for car wash systems as well
ple,” he says, seated in the boardroom of as new technologies to help their custom- In 1976, two years after moving his young
the Cambridge-based company’s Frank- ers’ businesses. family to Cambridge, Murray used his skills
lin Boulevard office with his sons Nathan, as a chemical technologist to develop a for-
Transchem president, and Tim, executive However, the road to Transchem Group’s mula to use in his own mobile truck washing
global success began on farm north of business which he founded thanks to the fi-
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