Four publicly traded door and window companies released financial results last week, showing mostly solid fourth-quarter and year-end results. Despite a housing market that slumped throughout 2022, net sales were up for Masonite and PGT Innovations in the fourth quarter. Meanwhile, reports from Fortune Brands Innovations (including Therma-Tru, Larson and Master Lock) weren’t as strong, […]

If there were a theme song for this year’s International Builders Show (IBS), it might be Bruce Springsteen’s “Glory Days.” Except in this case, they aren’t passing by so much as they appear to be returning. After a tumultuous experience with a virtual format in 2021 and a subdued in-person turnout in 2022, the show […]

Boise Cascade announced it will open a new facility in Kansas City, where the company plans to produce pre-hung doors. The 150,000-sq.-ft. location marks the company’s 10th door shop, where officials say they will lean on existing partners to produce interior and exterior products manufactured by Therma-Tru, Simpson and Steves and Sons. “We believe our […]

Online house plan provider The House Designers has announced its newest product partnership with Pella Windows & Doors. The decision, officials for The House Designers say, came after a vetting process that included consumer reviews and residential architects throughout the U.S. and Canada. Jerry Axelrod, an owner of The House Designers and an architect in […]

Along with its report for the first quarter of 2022, home and security products company Fortune Brands Home & Security Inc., headquartered in Deerfield, Ill., announced a split into two publicly-traded companies. Fortune Brands announced on Thursday, April 28 that the split comes with the pursuit of a tax-free spinoff for its cabinets business. New […]

Andersen Corp., Pella Corp., Masonite and Fortune Brands (which includes Therma-Tru, Larson and Fypon), are among the top door and window related companies named to Forbes’ list of America’s Best Large Employers for 2021, which was released this week. Five hundred large employers that received the most recommendations made the cut from 50,000 employees in […]

The 2021 International Builders’ Show virtual experience (IBSx) launched on Tuesday, and it wasn’t without a few hiccups—and we mean more than how COVID-19 turned the trade show industry on its ear, and left suppliers scrambling to get their new products in the hands of current and potential customers. IBSx, continuing through Friday, offered an […]

Fortune Brands Home and Security Inc. reported its fourth quarter and full-year 2020 results this week. It’s good news for the company—and the housing market in general—with fourth quarter and full-year 2020 sales increasing approximately 13% and 6%, to $1.7 billion and $6.1 billion, respectively, year-over-year. Even better, the company, parent to both Therma-Tru and […]

Officials for Therma-Tru announced today that the company has found a way to utilize 3D printing at its Maumee and Edgerton, Ohio-based facilities to produce protective face shields. While technicians typically use 3D printing to develop prototypes for exterior door technologies, the company obtained a template from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for products […]

Fortune Brands Home and Security (FBHS), parent company to Therma-Tru, released its fourth quarter results revealing positive gains for both the quarter year-over-year and the year 2019 overall. “Our strong results during the fourth quarter reflect our team’s ability to execute well in a housing market with modest growth and tariff challenges,” said CEO Nicholas […]