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 […]

Alside has opened a new location in Fort Wayne, Ind. The 16,120 square-foot supply center opened Sept. 2, and will bring a wide array of exterior building products to local contractors, remodelers and builders, as well as adding jobs to the local market, the company says. “We are very excited about expanding into Fort Wayne […]