Every building needs stairs.

We are a building trade.

So trades in the buildings are plumbers, electricians, steel.

And then under steel there are different categories.

There's structural steel, the main building.

Then there's what's called miscellaneous iron, which is us.

But our real core competency is in the manufacture and installation of high-rise stairs and railings for tall buildings in, say, city centers like New York and Boston and Philadelphia, or really fancy monumental stairs in, say, a hotel lobby.

We pride ourselves on making everything U.S.

made from start to finish.

A lot of the stairs, railings, our structural steel is made here in Delmore, Pennsylvania, in northeastern Pennsylvania.

So we can proudly say that from start to finish, everything we do is made in the USA.

There were McGregor stairs at Penn and at CHOP and in downtown Philadelphia and in the Sierra Center.

It was something I could actually, I could put my hand on a railing and I could walk up a stair that we made here in northeastern Pennsylvania.

When you drive up the East Coast, we had a hand in a lot of the buildings that were built.

So we had to figure out how to be efficient at building a stair that doesn't go up one story, that goes up 50 stories.

Because if you make a mistake on a one-story stair, it's not that big of a deal.

But if you make a mistake on a 50-story stair, you're repeating that mistake 50 times in the design, the manufacture, and the installation.

And a large part of that was marrying modeling, CNC machinery in our shop.

And that has kind of scaled now to robotics and being able to do stuff at scale efficiently.

What really sets us apart is that we're totally vertically integrated.

So if you're buying something from us, say you're doing a 50-story building, you're buying four towers.

All of that has to go perfectly right, but we take it from start to finish.

That's a differentiator.

A lot of people do one of those three things, or maybe two of those three.

We do all three.

We completely detail everything we make in-house.

That's something that currently is almost always done overseas for many, many companies.

We fabricate everything in-house, and we erect everything using our own ironworkers.

Ultimately, the buck stops with us, so we can't hide behind a different subcontractor or a partner.

We ultimately own any problem, so we own all the solutions.

The ultimate success and the current everyday success is truly dedicated and smart people.

What kept me here for 41 years is probably not being always in the same routine.

You come to work, you'll be doing something different every day.

The work that our ironworkers do in the shop, it is an art.

Rails for a hospital in Philadelphia.

Tomorrow we're making a circular stair for a hotel up in Boston.

Or we'll be doing a structural building.

All of our employees here are from northeastern Pennsylvania.

They know how to get it done, and they're big problem solvers.

There's just so much pride and meaning and purpose in that, and I'm so lucky to be able to do that every day.

We've been in business 106 years.

My great-grandfather, Robert S. McGregor, was the son of Scottish immigrants who moved to New York.

He started this business with a partner briefly, but it spun off and became McGregor Iron in 1919 here in Scranton, Pennsylvania.

My grandfather started it, and then my father joined the business.

They both passed away in 1981.

I graduated college in 1982.

I hadn't planned to come into the business.

I hadn't given that tons of thought, because I was in engineering school, so the plan was probably to get a job at an engineering firm for starters.

But once the... I knew I had to come back, and so that's what I did.

My grandparents stayed here, and then my father was raised here, and he came into the business.

I was raised here, and now we're into fourth generation, my daughter Grace.

We're actually making something, and we are doing something, and we're providing really great family-sustaining jobs for many people.

There's so much meaning in that, and also so much excitement in that of how we can build and grow this business.

It's just a tremendous honor and a privilege to be able to work with my dad and be the fourth generation of this business.