Morris and Ethel Mark arrived in the United States in 1949, with their sons, Joseph (Joe) and Gary, and began building their American Dream. As Holocaust survivors from Poland, the Mark family had spent most of World War II in a Siberian slave labor camp, followed by a displaced persons camp in Austria, before finally making their way to America. The Mark family spent their initial years in the United States in Marshalltown, Iowa, before moving to the Los Angeles area. 

In 1954, Morris built a factory in Gardena, California, which began fabricating metal products and manufacturing fabrication machinery. He and Ethel worked hard to grow their family business, Mark IV Metal Products, Inc., named for the four members of the Mark family. From the start, Morris worked in the factory with his boys, while Ethel managed the business from in the office.

While Mark IV evolved with the times over the next several decades—adding capabilities, revenues, headcount, and end markets—one characteristic always remained the same: Mark IV has always been and remains today a family business committed to the same values of honesty, hard work, and ambition that guided the Mark family to success in this country over 70 years ago. And it is our honor to continue their legacy today in service of the trade.