Thermal Industries, a division of Atrium Companies, recently named Mike Knight eastern regional sales manager. Knight joins the company with more than 30 years of experience in the window industry, spending the last 13 years with Gorell Windows. “With Thermal’s 50 plus years of window building experience and a total commitment to customer service, I […]

No one on our staff ever wants to hear of a company closing, a plant shuttering, a bankruptcy—none of it. Every time we have to report on one, it is bad news for the industry, the company, its workers, etc. But I will admit that once in a while, and that “once” happened this week, […]

It was with sincere regret that I learned last week of the placement of Gorell Windows & Doors into receivership. I learned this news as I was preparing to leave an otherwise upbeat Builders’ Show and it served as a reminder that we’re not completely out of the woods yet. Wayne Gorell is a statesman […]