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Our 75 Year History

For more than 75 years, Pioneer has been focused on our mission to be recognized as the commercial and institutional builders' preferred source for hollow-metal doors and frames in the education, healthcare, housing, entertainment, retail and municipality construction areas.

Our Factory

Founding in Brooklyn

Since our founding in Brooklyn in the early 1930s, every Pioneer product is Made in the USA and backed by our personal service and a guarantee of quality.

Expansion

Through the 1930s, '40s and '50s, Pioneer managed to expand its manufacturing output and opened plants in the Bronx and Mount Vernon, New York. (Insert Bronx&Mt. Vernon pics).

Welder

Hackensack

Pioneer moved into its state-of-the-art facility in Hackensack, N.J.

Great American Sites

Signature installations at world famous landmarks stand as a testimony to our commitment to quality products including the United States United States Holocaust Museum, the National Institute of Health, the Fort Knox Barracks and the West Point Physical Training Center.

Leaders

New Era of Commitment&Leadership

In April 2005, Mitchell Dorf, Rob Haversat and Jeff Haversat - who grew up in the door and hardware manufacturing business, learning their trade from their fathers and grandfathers - took the helm of Pioneer and began a new era of commitment to quality product manufacturing, personal service, and responsiveness to distributor needs and the highest set of values and principles.