Metropolitan Industries has come a long way from its beginning days more than 55 years ago as a manufacturers rep operating out of a single house in the Chicago suburbs. The now 150-employee company has morphed into a diversified distributor and OEM manufacturer with the vision of being a single source for pumps, control systems and ancillary equipment serving many water and wastewater industries. Supply House Times recently sat down with President and CEO John Kochan Jr., in the company’s 100,000-sq.-ft. headquarters in the south Chicago suburb of Romeoville to talk about Metropolitan’s growth, investment in training and some of the new products it has developed.