List of Top Vinyl Replacement Window Manufacturers
Based on our Window Reviews and Ratings Page and a universal and objective consensus of the top vinyl replacement windows manufacturers, we present to you a comprehensive list of the most popular vinyl replacement window companies, including Pella, Jeld-Wen, Andersen, Simonton, and many more! What we have done, too, is filter the most successful replacement window companies and focused on the ones that spend a great deal of effort on manufacturing vinyl replacement windows. Look through the list for a specific vinyl replacement window company you already have buying interest in, or browse through for new vinyl window manufacturers. If you have any suggestions or comments, please visit our Discussion Board on Vinyl Replacement Windows or our Window Reviews and Ratings page!
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ALSIDE WINDOW SYSTEMS
Headquarters: Cuyahoga Falls, OH
Product lines: Vinyl windows and doors. Additional product lines include vinyl siding, fencing and other products.
Employees: 3,100
Web site: www.alside.com
A new investor acquired a 50 percent stake in Associated Materials, parent of Alside Windows, at the end of 2004. For over fifty years, Alside Windows has been a best ranking manufacturer for vinyl replacement windows, via any Alside windows review. Unlike other larger companies that focus on other product lines, Alside dedicates itself to producing a great, high quality, and low-maintenance vinyl replacement window that fits anyone's needs. On top of this tradition, the manufacturing of vinyl windows has kept up with the latest energy efficiency coeds by the ENERGY STAR program. There are 10 different model vinyl window types, and all gracefully enhance the architectural style of anyone's home. In fact, besides being among the top vinyl replacement window manufacturers, and producing high end replacement windows. Alside received the Consumer's Digest "Best Buy" Award for the Excalibur line of vinyl replacement windows. It is also noted that as a whole, Alside's parent company Associated Materials Inc., the corporation has done way over $200 million in business this past year.
ANDERSON CORP
Headquarters: Bayport, MN
Product lines: Wood windows and patio doors. Composite replacement windows.
Employees: 14,000
Web site: www.andersenwindows.com
Andersen, which reports making over 5 million windows and doors annually, ranked 104th in Forbes Magazine’s 2004 annual listing of America’s largest private companies. Forbes estimated Andersen’s 2003 sales at $2.15 billion, up from $2 billion in 2002. Since early summer 2006, Silverline Windows has been a stand-alone subsidiary company of Andersen Windows. This purchase has rocketed both companies forward to the forefront of the window industry, doing more than $1 billion dollars in business in 2008 alone. Both Silverline Vinyl Windows and Andersen Windows pride themselves in the family roots that allowed both companies to gain so much success, and as the Silverline Vinyl Windows website adds: "Conventional Wisdom Suggests You Pick Any Three. With Silver Line, You Get It All." Surely, this merger has granted Silverline Vinyl Windows a spot as a top manufacturer in the vinyl replacement window industry.
ATRIUM WINDOWS & DOORS
Headquarters: Dallas
Product lines: Aluminum and vinyl windows and patio doors.
Employees: 5,000
Web site: www.atrium.com
Atrium, which states it is the largest manufacturer of residential vinyl and aluminum windows in North America, now operates over 80 manufacturing and distribution centers in 23 states and Mexico. It produces about 7 million windows and patio doors per year and has annual sales of nearly $800 million, according to company officials. Atrium Windows has been committed to providing high quality vinyl replacement windows especially with the help of its branch window companies such as the vinyl replacement window-focused SafeHarbor Windows. Along with companies like Simonton Windows and Ply Gem Industries, Atrium vinyl replacement windows does more than $500 Million in business each year, and this is reflected in the immense offerings of models and window types. To be exact, there are 12 different vinyl replacement window types and styles offered, and each is of high quality. If you are looking for a high end vinyl replacement window, consider Atrium vinyl replacement windows.
CHAMPION WINDOW
Headquarters: Cincinnati, OH
Product lines: Vinyl replacement windows, vinyl siding, patio rooms and porch enclosures, steel and fiberglass prime doors and sliding patio doors.
Employees: 1,700
Web site: www.championwindow.com
Champion sells direct to the homeowner via in-home sales and 55 factory showrooms in 31 states. Champion Window & Patio Room Co. makes sure that all their vinyl replacement windows that include their Comfort 365® glass are ENERGY STAR® efficient and match most regulations. All their quality vinyl replacement window products are ENERGY STAR® rated in all 50 states. Also, they say that their vinyl windows do not warp or rot over time so that the consumer need not worry about any possible heat-caused damage or malformation. Aside from being economically feasible, Champion vinyl replacement windows are also extremely popular and help the company achieve top rated status in most window reviews and do well over $300 million in business each year.
ELIXIR INDUSTRIES
Headquarters: Gardena, CA
Product lines: Exterior doors for residential housing, manufactured housing and recreational vehicles and cargo trailers. Single, sidelite, French, patio and custom doors.
Employees: 1,100
Web site: www.elixirind.com
The company produces steel and fiberglass door cores in Crossville, TN, and Aurora, OR. It operates manufacturing divisions in Douglas, GA; Reidsville, NC; Tuscumbia, AL; Mesa, AZ; Leola, PA; Elkhart, IN; and Meridian, ID. It is currently looking at adding manufacturing capabilities at its Indiana and Pennsylvania facilities, as well as expanding product lines available through its Georgia facility. Serving the entire United States, the firm also maintains international sales operations at its headquarters in Gardena, CA.
HARVEY INDUSTRIES INC.
Headquarters: Waltham, MA
Product lines: Vinyl, wood and aluminum windows. Steel and fiberglass entry doors. Acoustical windows. Patio rooms.
Employees: 1,200
Web site: www.harveyind.com
Harvey Industries has grown into a top rated national vinyl replacement window manufacturing company. They do upwards of $500 million in sales each year, and this is thanks to the high end window they manufacture; they truly are a top rated window company and window manufacturer. In 2004, the 5 millionth vinyl window was manufactured and this trend of immense output continued to climb. Now, just their line of vinyl windows alone contains 27 exterior color options and most, if not all models, are highly impact-resistant. Also, there are more than 10 window style options, include a custom one that the consumer may design given lenient parameters.
INTERNATIONAL ALUMINUM CORP.
Headquarters: Monterey Park, CA
Product lines: Aluminum and vinyl window and door products.
Employees: 1,500
Web site: www.intlalum.com
International Window Corporation, a subsidiary of International Aluminum Corporation has lately been doing between $300 million and $500 million in business, and this is a testament to its product development program and its unfailing vinyl window manufacturing. Product development is centered away from the main plants as to maintain focus on producing high quality and energy efficient windows that can be heated 5%-15% more in the winter with the integrated Intercept® insulating-glass system, which acts as a warm edge spacer that prevents any sealant failure. Also, the company's Royal Spectra-CoatT is a method and material that is used to coat the PVC, or vinyl, windows to ensure complete protection and sustained coating on the window for a lifetime, and as on their website, it says that this method of coating allows for better color options that will enhance street appeal.
JELD-WEN INC.
Headquarters: Klamath Falls, OR
Product lines: Wood, vinyl and aluminum windows and patio doors. Wood, steel, fiberglass and composite entry doors. Interior doors. Millwork products.
Employees: 24,000
Web site: www.jeld-wen.com
Forbes Magazine estimated Jeld-Wen’s 2003 sales to be approximately $2.19 billion, which put the company 98th on its 2004 list of America’s largest private companies. Jeld-Wen Windows and Doors is a replacement window industry giant. Among Pella Windows and Andersen Windows, this company does over $1 billion of business and is a top rated window manufacturer even according to the annual report by J.D. Power & Associates. Jeld-Wen replacement vinyl windows are high quality, and have been tested through time and experience throughout the 27 window brands that are under the umbrella of the Jeld-Wen replacement vinyl windows parent organization. Although an international company, they are primarily a window manufacturer of the US.
KOLBE & KOLBE MILLWORK CO. INC.
Headquarters: Wausau, WI
Product lines: Wood windows, doors and millwork. Vinyl windows. Steel and fiberglass doors.
Employees: 1,700
Web site: www.kolbe-kolbe.com
Kolbe & Kolbe Millwork Inc. manufactures two styles of vinyl replacement windows. The first is called the Resolution Series, which caters to a specifically, as mentioned, renovation market, and comes in five available finishes, three of which are "wood look options" that are not standard. To augment their efficiency, LoE2 coating and argon gas are available as options for the window types. Most Resolution Series products with this option meet or exceed ENERGY STAR® guidelines for energy efficiency in all climate zones. The next window style is the Foundation Series, which is the most cost-effective vinyl replacement window product that Kolbe & Kolbe Millwork Inc. manufactures. Made from uPVC, these best rated replacement windows offer a thermal barrier that can cut energy costs, especially the vinyl windows that have the ENERGY STAR label on them.
MI WINDOWS & DOORS
Headquarters: Gratz, PA
Product lines: Aluminum and vinyl windows and doors. Storm doors and windows. Cellular composite windows.
Employees: 3,500
Web site: www.miwindows.com
The fact that MI Windows & Doors grew from only a small collaboration of J.T. Walker and Robert J. Word in 1947 making window screens in an old Florida airplane hangar to a nationwide corporation that manufactures all its windows, shows how immense the market is for vinyl replacement windows. MI Windows started manufacturing its own vinyl replacement windows as part of its product line in 1981, and since then, this has become its largest source of business, and all in all, this top window manufacturer makes and sells enough vinyl replacement windows and other products to be among Champion Window and International Window Corporation as a window company that does well over $300 million in sales and business each year.
MILGARD WINDOWS
Headquarters: Tacoma, WA
Product lines: Vinyl, aluminum and fiberglass windows and doors.
Employees: 3,500
Web site: www.milgard.com
Whether or not Milgard Windows & Doors makes the best product on the market for vinyl replacement windows is shadowed by everything they promise and offer to their customers. First, all of their TuscanyT vinyl replacement windows are guaranteed to either meet or even exceed ENERGY STAR® standards in all climate zones, including those new energy tax credit guidelines as of February 17, 2009. Next, each window is custom and made-to-order without any additional cost or delayed shipping time. Also, Milgard vinyl replacement windows boast an innovative and trademarked SmartTouch Lock that won a prestigious IDEA award (International Design Excellence) from the Industrial Designers Society of America. Milgard was also awarded the Arthritis Foundation Ease-of-Use Commendation in recognition of the same high quality lock. On top of the Energy Tax Credit, Milgard, a top rated window company, offers an extra replacement windows rebate that would total over $2000 in savings.
MODERN BUILDERS SUPPLY INC.
Headquarters: Toledo, OH
Product lines: Vinyl windows, wood windows, steel and fiberglass entry doors and shutters.
Employees: 500
Web site: www.modernbuilderssupply.com, www.polaristechnologies.com
Polaris Technologies is a subsidiary company of the parent Modern Builders Supply Inc. that offers energy efficient vinyl replacement windows. Although there is only one product line of vinyl replacement windows, called UltraWeld, the Polaris replacement UltraWeld vinyl windows provide strength with the superb frame construction. Besides this fact, the UltraWeld vinyl replacement windows offer Polaris' energySMART glass. These glass packages offer unmatched high quality with mostly standard argon gas filling with intercept spacer systems. Also, the glass is Low-E rated and includes an option of another coating of energy efficiency on top of the already energy efficient glass (this particular glass is called SolarBan. Along with companies like Gienow and Elixir Industries, Polaris Technologies does between $100 and $200 million dollars in volume in each year and is one of the best window companies that produces the top vinyl window brands.
PATIO ENCLOSURES INC.
Headquarters: Macedonia, OH
Product lines: Residential and commercial sunrooms and patio enclosures. Vinyl replacement windows.
Employees: 700
Web site: www.patioenclosures.com
Patio Enclosures Inc. offers three related lines of vinyl replacement windows that all come with outstanding standard features and some of the top rated replacement windows. These lines are ComfortShield® Value, ComfortShield® Plus, and ComfortShield® Elite that each offer: PPG's SolarBan 60 Low-E glass for energy efficiency, Comfort-Gard Plus (standard on ComfortShield® Plus and ComfortShield® Elite), Limited Lifetime Warranty, and warm edge spacer technology. Each of these features is essential in producing and using an energy efficient window that can cut heating and cooling costs by up to 40%. Because of this high quality, all manufactured vinyl replacement windows that Patio Enclosures Inc. has to offer are qualified by the ENERGY STAR® program, meeting even the latest standards set by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.
PELLA CORP.
Headquarters: Pella, IA
Product lines: Wood, vinyl and fiberglass windows and patio doors. Storm doors. Steel and fiberglass entry door systems.
Employees: 10,000
Web site: www.pella.com
With all the talk about the new Energy Star Tax Credit, the consumer, more than ever, is looking for an energy efficient window. Pella Windows, in 2008, won the Energy Star Partner of the Year Award for the third year in a row. Truly, Pella makes some of the best vinyl replacement windows out on the market as a top vinyl windows manufacturer, and subsequently, the company is a multi-billion dollar one. The selection of vinyl replacement windows is vast and the quality is of the best: the three vinyl replacement windows on the vinyl line are the Centera, Encompass, and ThermaStar windows. Pella is certainly an all-around top window manufacturer that makes the best rated replacement windows in vinyl and all other types of material.
PGT INDUSTRIES
Headquarters: Venice, FLProduct lines: Vinyl and aluminum windows and doors. Hurricane impact-resistant windows and doors. Sunrooms.
Employees: 1,500
Web site: www.pgtindustries.com
Reporting that it is Florida’s largest window manufacturer, PGT operates a 470,000-square-foot corporate headquarters, manufacturing and delivery fleet facility in Venice, FL, employing some 1,600 people and servicing a network of authorized dealers and distributors. PGT® Industries offers more than vinyl replacement windows, for which they have two lines, but they focus on providing an affordable and energy efficient vinyl replacement window that very closely resembles a painted wood window that is unsurpassed by any of its competitors. The two product lines for vinyl replacement windows they offer are the SpectraGuardT Vinyl Series 2300 and the Vinyl Series 400, which are among the best replacement window brands. Both of these offer a variety of window styles, including single hung, double hung, casement, picture and more. Impact-resistance has been tested and validated in risk-prone regions such as coastal Florida and south Mississippi and Louisiana, and energy efficiency has been validated based on the fact that PGT®® is partnered with the NFRC and ENERGY STAR® to ensure the utmost thermal maintenance quality.
PLY GEM INDUSTRIES
Headquarters: Kearney, MO
Product lines: Vinyl windows and patio doors. Wood windows, steel entry systems, and room enclosure systems.
Employees: 7,000
Web site: www.greatlakeswindow.com, www.cwdwindows.com, www.mwwindows.com
Caxton-Iseman Capital Inc., a New York-based private equity group, acquired Ply Gem Industries from Nortek in 2004 in a transaction valued at $570 million. Ply Gem then turned around several months later and significantly expanded its window and door holdings with the $320 million acquisition of MW Windows & Doors. Ply Gem Industries is a large parent company (brings in almost $1 billion each year) of other smaller vinyl replacement window companies such as: CWD Windows Uniframe Windows, MW Windows, and Great Lakes Windows. All these branches, including the manufacturer parent company Ply Gem itself, make efficient vinyl windows that provide a maintenance-free experience and whose frames are sturdy and cohesive and well esteemed in most replacement windows reviews. Great Lakes Windows boasts that its vinyl replacement windows, unlike their competitors' vinyl windows, do not contain staples, glue, or nails. Ply Gem also maintains that its Great Lake Windows was the pioneer of vinyl replacement windows in the United States, when the market for vinyl windows was 3% compared to Europe's PVC market, which was at that time at 65%.
SIMONTON WINDOWS/SBR INC.
Headquarters: Parkersburg, WV
Product lines: Vinyl windows and doors. Acrylic block windows. Decorative millwork products.
Employees: 4,000
Web sites: www.simonton.com, www.hy-lite.com
Simonton Windows is an organization in the home and hardware division of the parent company Fortune Brands. Ever since 1946, the Simonton vinyl replacement window division has been rated at the top of all replacement window manufacturers because of the supreme quality and speedy made-to-order shipment of each vinyl replacement window. Simonton was ranked "Highest in Builder and Remodeler Satisfaction among Residential Window and Patio Door Manufacturers" in the J.D. Power and Associates 2008 Builder and Remodeler Residential Window and Patio Door Satisfaction Study. Also, Simonton has received many other awards in the industry because of its great vinyl replacement window product. Ever since the 1980s, Simonton Windows has focused their development of research and manufacturing on vinyl replacement windows, and fittingly, this company is truly one of the best in the industry, and does between $500 million to $1 billion in sales each year.
THE GIENOW GROUP
Headquarters: Calgary, AB
Product lines: Wood, clad-wood, aluminum and vinyl windows. Steel and fiberglass doors.
Employees: 1,500
Web sites: www.gienow.com, www.farleywindows.com
Gienow Windows commits itself to providing a vinyl replacement that is certainly energy efficient and also steadfast in the harshest climate conditions with great thermal sustenance and impact resistance. Just in 2007, Gienow was named 2007 Energy Star Manufacturer of the Year by Natural Resources Canada for manufacturing products in a way that is sensitive to high green house gas emissions, especially with these following glass systems: SOL-R® Shield 366, Sol-R® Shield 270, SOL-R® All Climate 272, and SOL-R® Gain 178. Gienow Windows offers three product lines for vinyl replacement windows: 250 & 260 Series and the 135 & 185 Series, all of which offer over five different window styles including: casement, awning, picture, single hung, slider, and specialty. All the frames are precisely trimmed and calibrated to ensure maximum life and support with the Computer Numerically Controlled (CNC) System that Gienow Windows implements. Because of all this, Gienow Windows easily does over $100 million in business each year, and is often a top rated window manufacturer, and so well-regarded for its just-in-time manufacturing capabilities, the company was honored with a Window & Door Crystal Achievement Award for Most Innovative Plant in 2001.
WEATHER SHIELD WINDOWS & DOORS
THE PEACHTREE COS. INC.
Headquarters: Medford, WI
Product lines: Wood and vinyl windows and patio doors. Entry doors.
Employees: 2,950
Web site: www.weathershield.com, www.peachtreedoor.com
www.crestlinewindows.com, www.vetterwindows.com
Originally founded in Medford, Wisconsin as an aluminum products manufacturer in 1955, Weather Shield Windows & Doors has grown to a Midwest windows and doors manufacturing giant with over 2,950 employees and doing over $300 million in business each year. Specifically, an entire company under the wing of Weather Shield is dedicated to the production of vinyl replacement windows, called Visions Windows. In 2000, the 2000 series vinyl window became the industry's vinyl window brand leader. And now, the company has the new and updated 3000 series vinyl window. This is because Visions vinyl windows provide amazing strength and durability without breaking the bank. Although new to the program since 2000, Visions vinyl windows is paired up with ENERGY STAR® and committed to manufacturing an energy efficient window up-to-date with the latest energy efficiency requirements, especially introduced in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.
WOODGRAIN MILLWORK, INC.
Headquarters: Fruitland, ID
Product lines: Pine doors and mouldings. Wood and aluminum-clad windows and doors, cellular PVC windows and vinyl windows and doors.
Employees: 5,000
Web site: www.woodgrain.com, www.windsorwindows.com
Windsor Windows, the windows manufacturing division of the parent company Woodgrain Millwork Inc., "believe[s] you shouldn't have to pay a premium to get the highest quality windows and patio doors" and this seems to hold true in its production of vinyl replacement windows under the umbrella of its two product lines: Legend Cellular PVC and Next Dimension Vinyl (quote from www.windsorwindows.com). The Cellular PVC vinyl replacement window line offers the only 25-year warranty in the industry and Next Dimension Vinyl replacement windows use Edgetech Super Spacer® technology and LoE2 Cardinal® glass with a lifetime limited warranty that ensure a high quality and energy efficient window. Because of this, Windsor Windows became easily and naturally affiliated with the U.S. Green Builders Council just recently to more fully commit itself to manufacturing an energy efficient vinyl replacement window.
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