Changes 2005
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- 3M Announces Exit from Concrete Protection Products Business consisting of Concrete Protector and Restorer, Scotch-Clad Deck Coating products and Scotch-Seal Chemical Grouts.
- Access Control Bollards (Montreal) - phone and website dead
- Access Industries had been purchased by ThyssenKrupp, renamed to ThyssenKrupp Access
- Acropolis Stone Products - (British Columbia) website dead, mailing returned
- Air Performance - mailing returned to address on site and phone disconnected
- Aleco Furniture - website and phone dead
- Alflex Corporation - conduit - purchased by Southwire
- Allied Vinyl Industries (Alabama) - phone dead, although website is still alive
- Allstate Cedarlite Greenhouse Mfg. Corp. - phone disconnected, postcard returned, website has old contact info.
- AlumaTech - shutters - website expired, phone not working
- Amco - storage - part of Leggett & Platt Storage Products Group
- American Metal Door Company is now a division of Door Engineering and Manufacturing
- American Metal Works (steel stairs, MS) purchased by Steel Service Center and they no longer make those products.
- Andover Controls now part of TAC
- Associated Landscape Contractors of America (ALCA) and the Professional Lawn Care Association of America (PLCAA) joined forces to become the Professional Landcare Network (PLANET)
- Atkinson Brick Company - Southern California has not made bricks in 2 years and is probably going to close.
- AVVA Light Corporation now Carmanah Signs
- Awlfab Corporation - hand rails and storefronts - Texas - website down, phone disconnected
- Benchmark Industries - Permarail - apparently out of business
- Birdair - name change to Taiyo Birdair
- Boston Metal Stair Design - answering service said they had filed for bankruptcy.
- BP Fabrics & Fibers - name change to Propex Fabrics
- Bradford Stewart - no longer in furniture business
- Bristolpipe - purchased by Westlake - now North American Bristol Corporation
- Broadway Collection (part of Schlage) was eliminated as a brand
- Burns, Morris & Stewart - name change to FrameSaver
- Canadian Bronze is now part of Bay Bronze
- Cardinal Health purchased by Fluke Biomedical - formerly Nuclear Associates - for glass radiation shielding
- CAREA (Quebec) - wall panels - phone and website dead
- Centrac - hotel casegoods - business closed
- Cerberus Pyrotronics - now part of Siemens
- Clearview Railing Systems - Canada - website and phone dead
- Colonial Craft, Amsco and Imperial Products (door hardware) are now Homeshield
- Colonial Metal Products - sold to Elko Products Company - makes Guttagard
- Colony Custom Curbs name to Custom Solution Roof & Metal Products
- Copperweld is now Atlas Tube (structural steel tubing)
- Coulter Hurricane Products - phone dead, no other listings, website still up, no phone listing in Switchboard.com
- CSSI acquired by Dodge-Regupol
- Deleo Clay Tile Co. - website expired and phone dead
- Diana Faucet - part of Mac Faucets
- Dow BioProducts will no longer operate and will cease manufacturing operations of WOODSTALK™ brand products
- Doxasteel Incorporated acquired by Haskell Office
- Durastone Corporation (precast terrazzo) - name change to Surface Elements
- Durastone - Maine - website not working and phone disconnected
- Dywidag Systems International - merged with Lang Tendons to form DSI - Lang
- Edwards Systems Technology acquired by GE Infrastructure - Interlogix
- Elan Major Appliances - website and phone dead
- EnhanCement Concrete Surfaces - unable to deliver product, pulled
- Folger Adam Security purchased by Southern Steel. New name is Southern Folger Detention Equipment
- George Kovacs Lighting - part of Minka Group - their website redirects there
- Hartford Conservatories - website down, phone disconnected
- Hawkeye Tile (drainage piping) acquired by Prinsco
- Hi-Rise Recycling Companies - chapter 11 assets sold to Wastequip
- Honeywell Nylon - carpet fibers purchased by Shaw Industries
- Honeywell Video and Honeywell Access combine to form Honeywell Systems Group
- Imcoa Inc. name change to Nomaco K-Flex
- Imperial Building Products - website still alive, but mailing returned and none of the identified phone numbers work. Also Imperial Pipe and Imperial Plastech.
- Innovative Shelter Design - website and phone dead
- Insulated Steel Door Institute - out of existence
- International Fire Code Institute consolidated into the International Code Council (ICC)
- Intervect USA is now Alimak Hek
- ISG Resources name change as part of purchase by Headwaters Resources
- JG Seating is now part of Series
- Koch Pavement Solutions - purchased by SemGroup
- Laboratory Tops has merged with Durcon to form Durcon Laboratory Tops
- Lang Tendons - merged with DYWIDAG-Systems International USA to form DSI - Lang
- Lee Metal Products purchased by Sandusky, now Sandusky Lee
- Liebman Hardware & Components - name change to OEMetrix
- Los Angeles Fireproof Door and Steelite Systems merged into Mesker Door
- Lumenyte International Corporation and Visual Lighting Technologies have entered into an exclusive sales and distribution agreement in the architectural market.
- Luminaria Lighting - try School House Electric
- Maxcess Technologies - sister company to aspmaxcess and access floor info can be found through aspmaxcess
- Metorex Security Products - name change to Rapiscan Systems
- Midwest Padding - name change to MP Global Products
- Mintec Corporation (Bamtex) - assets acquired by Wood Flooring International (WFI), Delran, NJ
- National Evaluation Service is now ICC Evaluation Service
- Newmark International acquired by Valmont - utility poles
- Night-Hawk Lighting Products (Florida - landscape lighting) - website and phone dead
- Northport Manufacturing - no longer making postal specialties
- OFC Glass - Oklahoma Fixture Company - name change to Penloyd Glass
- Olympic Manufacturing Group - name change to OMG
- Ornamental Steel Designs - Tennessee or Mississippi - website down, phone dead
- Pacific Window Corporation - name change to Window Logic Corp.
- Paltier purchased by Lyon Workspace Products several years ago
- Pavetech International purchased by Crafco
- PCC Valves and Flow Technologies - apparently acquired by Cooper Cameron Valves, no reference on that site to PCC. PCC site redirected.
- PetraTech - Petraflex apparently purchased by Contech - website redirected
- Photo Lab Systems - name change to PL Systems
- PI Vision - acquired by Petards
- PiRod apparently acquired by Valmont - utility poles
- Plasco Manufacturing (Canada - radiant heat) is now part of Wirsbo
- Poly-Steel Corporation - fabric structures - phone disconnected and website dead
- r+d design - (furniture) website alive, mailing returned and phone dead - both as are on website
- R-Steel name change to Koreteck
- Railwayz - vinyl railing - purchase by Elk Corp.
- Raymond Engineering (renamed REI Resources) was recently purchased by Datum Storage Solutions
- Raytheon Commercial Infrared acquired by L-3 Communications
- RBX Industries - name change to Rubatex International, now part of Nomaco K-Flex
- Red Lake Custom Doors - name change to Real Lifetime Custom Doors
- Republic Builders Products Company - purchased - new name is Windor Republic Doors
- Revest Northeast (remanufacturing arm of Steelcase) now Prevo Office Solutions
- Rohm and Haas industrial coatings purchased by BASF Industrial Coatings. In 2004 Rohm and Haas purchased Morton coatings.
- Safesec Corporation now part of Boon Edam Tomsed
- Silent Witness now part of Honeywell Systems Group
- Slocan Forest Products Ltd. has merged with Canfor Corporation
- Southwestern Wire Cloth purchased by Gerard Daniel Worldwide
- Spacemaker - no longer in business. Products now made by CenterCore Group
- Stingray Lighting no longer in business - some products available from Singray Energy Systems
- Stone Creek Brick Company - out of business
- Thompson Plastics (piping) acquired by Charlotte Pipe and Foundry Company
- U.S. Anchor Corp. - name change to Adhesive Technology
- Ultrak now part of Honeywell Systems Group
- Uridan - waterless urinals - apparently not being imported into US at this time. Website and phone numbers dead
- Viewpoint Skylights, Solariums, Greenhouses - website and phone numbers dead
- Vimco Shading Solutions now Lutron Shading Solutions
- Vogel Peterson - part of EckAdams
- Weldwood (Vancouver BC) acquired by West Fraser Timber Co.
- Westcrowns is no longer the US distributor for Technical Glass Products - contact Technical Glass Products
- Western Railco Products - name change to Railcraft International
- Witex Flooring - phone and website dead
- WoodCeilings - phone dead, pulled
