Nearly five years ago, Hurricane Katrina pounded its way along the Gulf Coast on August 29, 2005. The storm, which had high wind speeds of 175 miles per hour, weakened before landfall to a Category 4 and turned slightly eastward before coming ashore early that morning. Scores of windows were blown out at New Orleans [...]

Bill Kushlick, a former GE, Stanley and Weiser executive, has joined forces with Dusco Doors Ltd. as president, business development for its new Stanley Doors initiative. Kushlick, most recently the president and chief operating officer of Taiga Building Products, will be responsible for new business development and a drive to increase brand awareness of the [...]

The U.S. Department of Energy will host a two-day conference on the Highly-Insulating (R-5) Windows and Low-e Storm Windows Volume Purchase Program on September 22 and 23 in Chicago, Ill. The Volume Purchase Program was designed to help buyers of windows and manufacturers of windows by encouraging the growth of a market for the most [...]

ProBuild Holdings Inc. has appointed Bill Myrick as its new chief executive officer. He succeeds Paul Hylbert, who is stepping aside from day-to-day responsibilities after having been ProBuild’s CEO since January of 2007. Hylbert will continue to serve as a senior advisor and director of ProBuild’s board.
ProBuild’s chief operating officer for the past two years, [...]

Sunrise Windows in Temperance, Mich., celebrated the production of its 1,500,000th window this past Monday with a visit from Congressman John Dingell Jr. (D – Mich.). Company president Gary Delman says that though company officials had known several months the big day was coming, Sunrise has been so busy lately that it came even more [...]

Seventy members of the Northeast Window & Door Association (NWDA) gathered recently for the association’s summer meeting in Galloway, N.J. One of the hot topics at the event was the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Lead Renovation, Repair and Painting program.
“There is certainly some frustration in getting Congress to realize what the window companies are fighting [...]