IDEAL
Door
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| 1963 |
The IDEAL Door Company was founded in Woodville, Wisconsin as a manufacturer of wooden garage doors.
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| 1977 |
IDEAL Door is purchased by the Automatic Garage Door Company and moves its manufacturing facility to Baldwin, Wisconsin, where it becomes one of the largest employers in St. Croix County.
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| 1992 |
Clopay acquires IDEAL Door, Phenix Door, and Automatic Door Company. Clopay, established in Cincinnati, Ohio as the Seinsheimer Paper Company in 1859, originally sold paper products and other related items. The name “Clopay” was developed in the early twentieth century as an acronym formed by the contraction of the words “cloth-paper”. Clopay entered the garage door industry in 1964.
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| 1994 |
Clopay leads the door industry with the introduction of the Safety Bottom Bracket, which is designed to prevent accidental injury if a bottom bracket were removed while the door is closed and under spring tension.
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| 1995 |
Clopay’s parent company takes on a new look and a new name, the “Griffon Corporation” (formerly Instrument Systems Corporation of New York).
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| 1997 |
Clopay Building Products acquires Holmes-Hally Industries, giving it manufacturing in the western US. This makes Clopay Building Products the largest manufacturer of residential doors in the United States.
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| 1998 |
Clopay again leads the industry with introduction of its patented EZ-SET® Spring System, which makes adding spring tension simpler and safer for consumers.
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| Future |
As Clopay Building Products invests for the future, a major capital project has been embarked upon: the company-wide implementation of an Oracle Enterprise System, which will facilitate “Building the Bridge to the 21st Century”.
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