Serious Materials acquires Kensington Windows - Pittsburgh Business Times:

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Today, those workers have some hope of returningy to theirold site, with the announcement that energy-efficien glass maker has purchased the Kensington plan t and will reopen its doors within 30 The company declined to disclose terms of the The green-minded manufacturer, based in Calif., has been involved in the Kensington project from the time it closed, said its president and CEO Kevibn Surace. The 100,000-square-foot facility in Vandergrif has the capacity tomanufacture 13,000 windows per Once online, Kensington and anotherf recently closed plant in Chicagio that has been sold to Serious Materials will increase the company’ss output 10-fold, Surace said.
“We’ve been sold out, so we are desperatelyy seeking capacityright now,” Surace said. “We are inundated with opportunity. Inundated at all our The company has two factories in California and one in each is smaller than theKensington site. “We’rd packed. Packed! We’re overloaded with orders,” Suracer said. Surace said severakl companies bid on the Vandergrift plant and that the deal was brokeredcby . When Kensington closed after 30 years of many of its former workers are waitin g for phone calls from theirf union and Serious Materials for news ofpotentiall employment.
“There are people that we’ll be hiringg back,” Surace confirmed. But the procesd will be somewhat starting with perhaps only a dozen workeras and rebuilding the customer base that vanished during the plant’s three-month-long closure. Surace said the plant, once will start producing product withinseveral weeks. “I don’f know what we’re doing from a job perspective. A lot of thosew people are gonnabe back. We need everythintg from managementto sales.
” The company announce today that it will install new equipment “to make super-insulatint windows and commercial