Corey Anderson

Technology is it's taken away the people aspect, it's taken away the teams, it's taken away collaboration and the personal connection.

And that's what's so fun about the skilled trades.

It's a team, it's a community building something, especially in our foundry where it's hot, dirty and dangerous.

And it actually fosters a really cool brotherhood.

We just want to be known as people who are fighting for American-made, people who are fighting to create opportunities for the skilled trades and training and instilling discipline in the character qualities to make our young people the next legacy makers of the skilled trade.

Yeah, so we have two missions, really.

It's to preserve American manufacturing and to create opportunities and develop the next generation of skilled trades.

So we do that through our manufacturing companies, Anderson Industries and Anderson Foundries.

We have a number of foundries.

Dakota Foundry is a gray and ductile iron foundry.

And then Muncie Castings, we just acquired.

That's an aluminum foundry.

And so we have a number of operations, mostly in the casting and foundry industry.

And then we're also with our Iron Warrior Academy.

It's a nonprofit.

We're also building and creating opportunities for the next generation of young people to get into the skilled trades.

So that's one of the most fulfilling parts of being involved in the skilled trades and actually learning a skill and being able to create and build something with your hands.

And it's going to be it is a huge demand.

A lot of that work over the last decades has been shipped to other countries, primarily China.

They're one of the manufacturing leaders in the whole world.