Associated Materials recently opened three new Alside supply centers, including a 20,000-square-foot facility in Conway, S.C. The site, which is based in the Myrtle Beach metropolitan area, is a palletized warehouse offering manufactured Alside siding and windows, along with a variety of other products, including fiber cement siding, doors and decking. Additionally, a 63,200-square-foot building […]

It’s not easy to start a company and even harder to establish one that lasts the tests of time—and economy—so celebrating milestone anniversaries like 50 and 75 years in business is reason to celebrate. A Quanex location and all of Associated Materials are celebrating in 2022. On Oct. 5, Quanex’s Rice Lake Plant celebrated 50 […]

Associated Materials and global investment firm SVPGLOBAL jointly announced that they have entered into a definitive agreement for funds managed by SVPGLOBAL to acquire Associated Materials. “Associated Materials is a strong business with some of the top brands in North American siding and windows and is well-positioned in home product markets that are seeing very […]

Associated Materials, a North American manufacturer and distributor of exterior building products, announced Monday that it has entered into definitive agreements for a series of recapitalization transactions that the company says will de-lever its balance sheet and enhance its liquidity position significantly. Under the transactions, holders of over 99% of the Company’s $675 million 9% […]

Ply Gem might have a competing offer to its recently announced private-equity deal to merge with Atrium. Private-equity firm Hellman & Friedman could submit a bid for Ply Gem that beats the $2.4 billion offered by Clayton, Dubilier & Rice (CD&R), according to a report from the New York Post on Thursday that cites “two […]

Associated Materials is closing its Alpine Window Systems plant in Bothell, Wash., and will lay off 87 workers by late November as the company moves operations to a new facility in Fife, Wash., about 45 miles away. It’s unclear how many employees work at the Bothell plant. It’s also unclear if the dismissed workers will […]

Associated Materials of Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, the makers of Alside siding, filed a motion to dismiss a class-action lawsuit that accuses the company of not honoring warranties for siding that plaintiffs say might have been melted by heat reflected from windows. The motion, filed on December 5 in the U.S. District Court in Portland, Ore., […]

Police say a former Associated Materials employee stole more than $200,000 from the company during his time there. According to a criminal complaint filed in Waukesha County, Wisc., Circuit Court, Jason Matthews, 35, committed 21 offenses—one of identity theft for financial gain and 20 for stealing more than $10,000 in a business setting. Suspicion arose […]

Two franchisees continue in their legal case against Window World Inc. and Associated Materials Inc. (AMI). On October 16, 2015, the plaintiffs filed a suit in the U.S. District Court in Nebraska over a license agreement with the national window chain in 18 markets. While the defendants filed a motion to dismiss earlier this year, […]

Associated Materials, manufacturer of Alside, Gentek, Revere and Preservation windows, announced that its Central (Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio) window manufacturing operation has been awarded ISO 9001:2015 certification for meeting or exceeding rigorous quality-assurance standards – and is one of only a few U.S. window companies with ISO 9001 certification. ISO 9001:2015, which is the latest version […]