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  • Southwall Technologies’ film helps auto makers improve fuel efficiency, reduce GHG emissions

    May 27, 2009
    In response to President Barack Obama’s plan to increase and accelerate industry requirements for higher gas mileage and lower greenhouse gas emissions, Southwall Technologies Inc., the worldwide innovator of high performance energy-saving films and glass products, today called on automakers to install infrared (IR) reflective glass using XIR film technology in all new vehicles. Doing so...

  • Midlothian company offers residential window tinting
    December 12, 2008
    While tinted windows on your car might look cool - and help keep you cool - tinting the windows of your home is an entirely different matter.But a Midlothian [Chicago] company that franchises automotive repair and accessories shops was getting requests from customers to do just that.The result is an entirely new franchise that has nothing to do with Moran Industries Inc.'s core business.

  • CPFilms showcases technology-driven marketing tools at SEMA
    November 5, 2008
    CPFilms Inc., St. Louis, a wholly owned subsidiary of Solutia Inc., St. Louis, and the world's leading producer of automotive, residential, and commercial window films, today announced its plans to introduce several innovative marketing tools and industry-leading products for window film dealers at the Specialty Equipment Makers Association trade show (booth 11813), Nov. 4-7 in Las Vegas. In...

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  • CH Holdings relaunches Cupples brand with Bob Trainor at the helm
    CH Holdings, the St. Louis-based holding company that owns Enclos Corp. and Environmental Interiors Inc., has relaunched the Cupples brand in the domestic U.S. marketplace, according to confidential sources. CH has reportedly tapped Bob Trainor, former CEO of Trainor Glass, to lead the new Cupples team.The new façade contracting company, Cupples Inc., will target smaller projects with $1...
  • Exclusive: Grey Mountain talks strategy
    In the span of three months, Grey Mountain Partners, the Boulder, Colo., private equity firm, acquired four glass and metal fabrication companies: Custom Components Co., Columbia Commercial Building Products, Global Security Glazing and Hawkins Architectural Products. Recently, Beth Lesniak, vice president and affiliate manager for Grey Mountain,...
  • UPDATED: Trainor Glass Co. files for voluntary Chapter 11 bankruptcy
    UPDATE: Trainor Glass filed a motion in the Chapter 11 case on March 13, seeking to use cash collateral and obtain post-petition financing to “pay for the costs of the preservation and orderly liquidation of debtor’s assets, and to pay for the costs of administration of the debtor’s chapter 11 case,” according to the court documents.First Midwest Bank, the bank involved in the motion, has “...