Mel Laurila

Having started and run three companies, including one that made Inc. magazine’s list of fastest growing companies in America in 1992, Mel Laurila has lived the entrepreneurial experience of turning a dream into reality. A graduate of Michigan Technological University with B.S. and M.S. degrees in metallurgical engineering, he is very familiar with the mines in Michigan’s Copper Country.

Mel Laurila has published a textbook, The Sampling of Coal, and has written over one hundred articles and technical papers during his thirty-plus years in the mining business. He continues to consult with major mining equipment suppliers.

Mel and his wife, Anna, reside in Georgetown, Kentucky, and Republic, Michigan.