Mark Bartlett, president of Western States Garage Door Supply, paused on his walk around the company’s 43,000-square-foot facility in Anaconda to talk with craftsmen about the best ways to assemble, modify and resize garage doors.

“I’ve been in the door industry my whole life,” he said. “I got out of school and went into the Marine Corps. And when I got out of the Marine Corps, my first job was sweeping the floor in a door warehouse.”

Bartlett met his wife, Susan, in the 1990s at a construction supply company in southern California, where he managed the door division. When they moved to Anaconda in 2003, they commuted 25 minutes to their then-nascent garage door business in Butte.

Last summer, Bartlett moved his operation’s headquarters and 17 employees into the new facility in Anaconda

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