Innovating Hardware and Extruded Solutions for What’s Next
Pushing the Boundaries with New Hardware and Extruded Technology
Quanex’s Hardware Solutions and Extruded Solutions business segments combine multifaceted expertise, advanced capabilities, and global scale to deliver new value to the markets they serve—and unlock opportunities far beyond their traditional reach.
As a global organization, Quanex offers one of the industry’s broadest portfolios of hardware and extruded solutions, powered by talented teams with decades of experience. By aligning these strengths, we’re expanding what’s possible not only in our legacy fenestration markets, but also in new and emerging applications.
Here’s how each group is helping to drive that momentum:
High-Performance Extruded solutions Designed for What’s Next
Quanex Extruded Solutions brings together multiple core competencies into a single, integrated offering. The group’s portfolio includes:
- Warm-edge spacer systems
- High-performance weatherseals
- Energy-efficient vinyl profiles
- Sealants for the solar industry
- Fencing, decking, and other outdoor extrusions
With significant global extrusion infrastructure for composite spacer and vinyl solutions, the business has the scale, flexibility and technical depth to support both established and emerging markets worldwide.
That capability allows Quanex to work closely with customers to solve complex challenges, whether that means optimizing a new product line, hitting ambitious performance targets or entering a new market segment.
“With our collective experience in high-performance extrusions, along with expertise in compounding and material science, we’re actively seeking new challenges to tackle,” said Todd Haney, vice president product management, extruded solutions. “Extrusion excellence is a core Quanex strength, and it applies well beyond traditional fenestration applications.”
Hardware Solutions that Enable Design and Performance
Quanex’s Hardware Solutions business focuses on delivering reliable, high-quality hardware that helps customers manufacture better-performing, more desirable products—efficiently and with confidence.
The portfolio spans:
- Window and door hardware components
- Screen solutions for a wide range of applications
- Residential and commercial security solutions
- Additional components and accessories, including end clips, setting blocks, stiffeners, grilles, jambs, and more.
Supported by enhanced engineering and design capabilities, a diverse geographic footprint, and well-established brands such as AmesburyTruth, ERA, ZOO, Giesse, and Reguitti, the group is well-positioned to address evolving customer needs.
Hardware Solutions also brings robust manufacturing capabilities to the table, including metal forming and shaping, surface finishing and coating systems, and advanced assembly technologies. These strengths are being applied not only to today’s fenestration demands, but also to new product opportunities.
One example is how AmesburyTruth is responding to the growing trend toward large-format windows and doors, with slimmer profiles. As glass sizes increase, hardware performance becomes even more critical, requiring solutions that can support greater weight without sacrificing aesthetics or usability.
Expanding Possibilities Through Shared Strengths
Across both business segments, Quanex continues to look for new ways to apply its core manufacturing competencies to adjacent and emerging markets.
“By developing complementary products that can work together, we have the shared competencies, infrastructure, equipment, and—most importantly—the people to pursue new opportunities with confidence,” said Haney. “We have the complementary products that can result in a complete Quanex system, and the versatility to apply those products to new applications.”
By bringing together hardware and extruded solutions excellence under one global organization, Quanex is poised to help customers meet today’s challenges while shaping what’s next.
