A year or two ago, buying doors and windows was all about availability. Due to insane levels of marketplace demand coupled with supply chain issues, lead times were stretched out to six to 12 months. Selling fenestration products was all about availability. If your lead time was faster, you could easily prevail over your competition […]

Functional Fenestration Inc. has hired Nolan Day as FFI territory sales manager for the Midwest and Eastern US and Canada. Day has 35 years experience in the building products industry including Hilti, CertainTeed, SOPREMA, and Hager Hardware. Day was also a co-founder of the Chicago Building Enclosure Council, has served as president and board member […]

Palmer-Donavin has named Mark McNabb and CertainTeed as the Vendor Representative and Vendor of the Year for 2021. “We’re excited to announce CertainTeed has been named our Vendor of the Year. Their team was instrumental to the success we saw in both the roofing and siding categories. This award is very well deserved,” said Josh […]

REHAU recently announced that Xavier LeBlanc has joined the company as vice president of window solutions for the Americas region, reporting directly to the CEO of REHAU Americas, Dr. Thomas Troeger. He will lead the business division of the company’s window, door and hardware product lines. LeBlanc has worked in the building materials manufacturing industry […]

Saint-Gobain, through its building products subsidiary CertainTeed LLC, has acquired Vi-Lux Building Products, a Canadian custom manufacturer of cellular polyvinyl chloride (PVC) molding and trim. The acquisition adds to the Saint-Gobain’s growing siding business and expanding its production capacity for specialty trim materials. Vi-Lux was founded in 1997 and is based in Napanee, Ontario, Canada. […]

Andersen Corp. announced the appointment of Paul Valle as the president of Silver Line Business Products, its New Jersey-based vinyl window and patio doors division. “Paul brings strong building material industry experience and has proven results in operating within a matrix environment leading multi-site manufacturing organizations,” says Andersen Corp. president and CEO Jay Lund. “His […]