A Little History About Our Family at Draco
Originally incorporated as Central Steel Building Systems in the mid-90s, our founders started off as highly skilled mechanics and metal fabricators repairing heavy-duty semi-tractor-trailer and trailer frame setups. As our reputation for workmanship continued to grow, our customers started telling us how frustrating it was for them to find the high level of quality they needed for welded structural beams and components.
We listened; we tinkered; we delivered.
Then, a funny thing happened that changed our trajectory entirely. We started getting calls from two very different groups of people facing the exact same problem. At first, we got more and more requests from folks to repair or replace metal building frames made by other manufacturers. These customers just hadn’t gotten the quality product they thought they were buying. Soon after that, we actually started getting calls from metal building sellers asking us to make frames for them, too! The market clearly needed more custom welding expertise, and we knew we could fill that void.
We listened; we tinkered; we delivered.
From there, it was a quick hop, skip, and jump into rollforming our own sheeting, trim, and other metal building components. But we’re artisans, not copycats, so we made a pre-engineered metal building system in our own image. We listened to the problems our contractor customers were having and started tackling them one by one. Redesigned from the ground up to be accessible to both contractors and consumers, you’ll enjoy features in an Ostro Building System you won’t find elsewhere, from our proprietary, fastener-concealing base angle to our perforated, lightweight soffit paneling.
In 2021, after years of growing our beanstalk toward the clouds, we decided it was time to rebrand, reorganize, and—as always—keep tinkering to make sure our platform matches who we are and what we do. We formed the MarPen Group, a contemporary family of companies spanning manufacturing, design, distribution, and construction services.
