05/18/2026
🌱 Pausing our regularly scheduled programming to celebrate something pretty special… last week’s very first Igniter Summit. 🔥
Over three days in Great Falls, Montana, we brought together our culture ambassadors (Igniters)from across our footprint 👣to learn, connect, challenge each other, volunteer, laugh, and continue strengthening what makes this company different (Employee Ownership)! 🥳
Our Igniters are more than participants in programs or meetings. They are connectors. Culture builders. People who are willing to model ownership in action every single day.
Throughout the Summit, we:
💚 Learned through leadership and culture sessions
💚 Worked hands-on together
💚 Volunteered with the incredible team at 's House.
💚 Toured our Great Falls branches (Great Falls Steel, Great Falls Recycling, Steel Etc., and Corp HQ).
💚 And yes… hosted our first ever Paper, Scissors, Rock Tournament 🏆 (an amazing idea borrowed from our friends at )
Underneath all the fun, this Summit represented something much deeper.
More than 119 years ago, Joseph Thiebes built Pacific on values like trust, fairness, hard work, and connection. Those roots still matter today. You could feel them in every conversation, every shared idea, every volunteer moment, and every person willing to step up and help make Pacific stronger.
Ownership is not just something we say.
It is something we build together.
A huge thank you to everyone who helped make this first Summit a success, especially:
👏 The Wendt Agency
👏 Jesse Tyler from Hypertherm
👏 Our Great Falls teams
👏 And every Igniter who showed up fully engaged and ready to pour into others
Culture doesn't just happen. It's created! 💪
