After working in the US Steel Homestead Works for seven months in 1976, Jim Kapp decided that there had to be a better way. He went to a local Pittsburgh Electrical Technical School and graduated in 1978 as an electrician. From the first day after graduation, he started Kapp Electric Company. In 1982 the steel mills were going through another recession (just like the one in 1976), and all of the electrical steel workers laid off were taking away most of the electrical business available.
