Robert Sanford and Bruner Dicus established Alfab Inc. as a work shop and specialty metal fabrication business on February 8th, 1971.

Alfab has built its business on the principles of high moral standards, commitment to providing excellent customer service, and respect for one another that were established in the beginning by Bob and Bruner.

"An effective and lucrative organization isn't always based on ground-breaking innovations or radical revisions of established practices. Bruner Dicus, Baltimore Consumer Magazine, 1959. "Often it is based on a reasonable and sensible approach to problems and the application of common sense to their answers.