This week we visit Mathews Brothers where they manufacture windows and doors.
Factory Tour of the Week: Mathews Brothers Windows & Doors
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Tom Palmitesta says
Beautiful factory. What do they use for the frames: aluminum, PVC or Composite?
Bob Maynes says
Actually, we use hollow(ed) PVC, composite (PVC and acrylic), cellular PVC (made by injecting nitrogen into the molten PVC during the extrusion process, and, of course, wood, which we have been doing for 155 years.