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Article: The ins and outs of stainless steel. (stainless steel door)
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- Doors and Hardware
- Article date:
- July 1, 1995
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CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 1995 Door and Hardware Institute. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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What's behind the stainless steel door and why they're so "hot" with dealers, distributors, builders and architects
My other Jim and I had a successful business producing a traditional line of hollow metal steel doors and, like many other manufacturers, we dabbled in stainless steel units from time to time. Then, seeing a void in the market, we decided to expand our stainless steel production.
As we looked at our opportunity in stainless, however, it became apparent that stainless steel had totally different production, engineering and service requirements from our hollow metal business. To go all the way with stainless, we realized that we needed to establish ...