C.P. Sutter started his commercial roofing company in Clarksburg WV in 1902, and it has remained in the family ever since. After a shift in the 1930s and 40s to mining dust collection steel piping fabrication. When that market slowed Sutter Roofing went back to its roots in commercial roofing. They became expert in EPDM single-ply roofing by the mid-1970s.