From its first days, Century’s leaders have had a passion to provide the challenging, underserved regions of the Mountain West with world-class civil construction solutions.
Jack and Ann Morgenstern bet it all in 1975 when they established Century Paving, as the company was first known, to take urban-quality services to the rural communities of Montana. Not long after serving as a Seabee in Vietnam and returning to his home state, Jack capitalized the company with $3,000, then bid and won a competitive street job in Dillon, Montana. Ann worked as the corporate bookkeeper out of an abandoned filling station that also served as the initial shop and headquarters the first year. After successfully completing that first project, the couple made a bold move in 1976 to Lewistown, which would become their permanent home and remains the corporate headquarters to this day.
Over the ensuing decades, Jack and his growing team of professionals developed an extremely successful business in a widespread rural marketplace using a mobile-operation business model. Acquiring older, yet high-quality equipment, then rebuilding and diligently servicing it for reliability became the means by which the company was able to service many markets across long distances.
Today, under the ownership and direction of an employee-owned team of leaders, Century Companies, Inc. continues to be clearly focused on serving its rural and remote customers. The organization serves hundreds of public and private entities throughout the rural West, with an emphasis on Montana and Wyoming. Century’s reputation is unmatched for high-quality civil infrastructure services and materials production, often in exceptionally remote settings where others simply will not or cannot thrive.
Century’s fleet of equipment encompasses more than 500 pieces of large construction equipment and an expansive fleet of mobile plants for the production of high-spec aggregates, hot- and warm-mix asphalt, and concrete.
To this day, while no longer involved in the operation or ownership of the business, Jack and Ann provide an enduring legacy of excellence and a set of family values that help guide Century as it leads the rural infrastructure development industry.