Building Products

($ in millions) 2006 Net Sales $1,064.4 Operating Income 134.7 Depreciation and Amortization 36.7 Capital Expenditures 27.0 Assets 633.9

Serving the new housing and remodeling industries with various aluminum sheet products and value-added window and door components, Quanex's Building Products businesses continue to outperform the markets they serve by fostering close ties with its customers.  Building Products, comprised of Engineered Products and Aluminum Sheet Products, represents about half of Quanex's total sales.

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Operating Locations

HOMESHIELD Chatsworth, Chatsworth, Illinois
HOMESHIELD Rice Lake, Rice Lake, Wisconsin
HOMESHIELD West Coast, The Dalles, Oregon
HOMESHIELD Richmond, Richmond, Indiana
HOMESHIELD Mounds View, Mounds View, Minnesota
HOMESHIELD Luck, Luck, Wisconsin
HOMESHILED Dubuque, Dubuque, Iowa

TruSeal Technologies, Solon, Ohio
TruSeal Technologies, Barbourville, Kentucky
Besten Equipment, Solon, Ohio

Nichols Aluminum Casting, Davenport, Iowa
Nichols Aluminum Davenport, Davenport, Iowa
Nichols Aluminum Lincolnshire, Lincolnshire, Illinois
Nichols Aluminum Alabama, Decatur, Alabama

Mikron West, Kent, Washington
Mikron East, Richmond, Kentucky
Mikron Midwest, Winnebago, Illinois

HOMESHIELD designs and manufactures metal, wood and composite window and door components using innovative tool design and processes, including roll forming, slitting, laser welding, laminating, stamping, automated assembly and coating. HOMESHIELD also provides value-added services such as just-in-time shipping and engineering support.

TRUSEAL TECHNOLOGIES utilizes proprietary extrusion techniques to produce spacer products for insulating glass systems and sealants for vinyl, aluminum and wood windows. Its sister operation, Besten, manufactures a complete line of equipment used by window and door fabricators to clean, convey, store and assemble insulating glass.

NICHOLS ALUMINUM operates one of the largest scrap-based aluminum mini-mills in North America, producing up to 360 million pounds of coated and mill-finished sheet used primarily in the building products and transportation markets. Blended grades of scrap are prepared and refined using a scrap recovery system along with conventional and rotary melt furnaces to both improve scrap yield and minimize metal costs. Nichols Aluminum’s finishing capabilities include cold rolling to specific gauge, heat treating, slitting to width and custom coating.

MIKRON industries designs and manufactures its own tooling to produce a wide variety of vinyl window profiles and blinds used by major window and door OEMs. Through three highly automated extrusion facilities, Mikron uses thermoplastic resin to produce PVC window profiles.

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