Members of the Derrick family have been business partners for over 100 years. As far back as the mid 1890's, Derricks were working together in the construction and construction supply business.

Back in 1924, Great Grandpa Frank Derrick started a brick manufacturing company in Newport, Kentucky. The Frank J. Derrick Brick Company would mine clay from the hillside in Newport as raw material to manufacture the bricks. After mixing, shaping and forming the material to make the bricks, the bricks would be "fired" in long, narrow tunnel ovens called brick kilns. This heating/baking process would serve to properly cure and harden the bricks. Derrick bricks became part of many building projects throughout the region including the tri-state area's premier high-rise building project, the Carew Tower, which continues to stand tall in downtown Cincinnati today.

Grandpa Harry Derrick Sr. took over the company from his father Frank, and in the early 1940s moved the company to a new location in the South Fairmount area of Cincinnati. It was around this time that the U.S. government was in dire need of long heat treating furnaces to process tank tread parts for the tanks in WWII. Harry Sr. and his crew came to the rescue by devising a method to convert some of their brick kilns into heat treating furnaces, and were duly honored for their efforts in a public ceremony at which the prestigious U.S. Army/Navy "E" award was presented to each member of the company. This was and remains a very proud moment in the history of our company.

As the company continued to prosper and grow, the operations were once again relocated to a larger facility located on the east side of Cincinnati. With the larger facilities available to him, Harry Sr. expanded the business to include used brick, while continuing to do more and more heat treating of steel. Eventually the manufacture of new bricks was phased out completely. The company continues to do business today at this same location on Kellogg Ave.

Harry Jr. (Buddy) and his sister Mickey operated the business when their father Harry Sr. passed away in the late 50s. The used brick business was phased out in the '60s as the metal heat treating operations became the main source of work for the business. Much of the work coming to us for heat treating was going elsehwere to be blasted and prime painted. We began our blast and paint operation under Buddy's direction.

When Buddy died in 1970 Mickey and her husband Stan took over the reigns of the company, and by the early 70's the "morph" from bricks to steel was complete. Mickey and Stan Perry, their son Joel & his wife Sheree, their daughter Kathie and her husband Gary Schmid, continued to successfully develop the company into the region's premier provider of heat treating, blasting and painting services on large work.

Today, Gary and Kathie continue to operate the business. Gary and Kathie's son Jason, the current plant manager, proudly carries on the family tradition as the first member of the fifth generation to share in the management of the business.