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American Window Alliance Member Syron Industries Lands Fort Drum Window Contract
Mike Brisbin, Sales Manager at Syron Industries in Syracuse, NY and the Syron Team won a very competitive government contract by persevering through the bidding process. Syron lost the first round of bidding to another manufacturer but kept abreast of the projects overall success and continued to develop relationships with key Fort Drum personnel.
There were performance issues with the winner of the first set of bids and the project manager proactively decided to re-open upcoming phases for a rebid. Syron acted very quickly to demonstrate the structural advantages of the Alliance product. The Syron presentation focused on the difference in the Alliance platform vs. the competition. Syron also stressed quick turn around for lot releases, on demand releases versus the developer purchasing a trailer load of windows, and training for the installers. Syron was also able to create a competitive advantage with quick turnaround on remakes as well. This consultant type of relationship was attractive to the many quality managers and phase managers at Fort Drum. Syron and the Alliance Window System became the trusted alternative to the “glass and plastic” type of supplier.
Syron won the bid without being the lowest bid! Syron has proven that they are competitive in price with a quality product while bringing more value with the premium Alliance Window Systems, built by professional people and backed up with a strong warranty. Due to Syron’s preparation by listening and interviewing the decision makers, they were able to create a value proposition that fit the specific needs of the Fort Drum project managers. Together they found ways to reduce costs while creating value. The phrase and concept of “value added” was fully exercised in Syron Industries being awarded this project.
Behind the scenes, Tim Hyla owner of Syron negotiated raw materials purchases in creative ways in order for our plant to lower production costs through actual material savings, optimizing material usage, managing production of these units during slower production cycles in order to “cover” our fixed overhead. The ability of Syron to win and manage this contract was and is the result of everyone on the Syron Team pulling together for a common goal.
Congratulations to Syron from the entire American Window Alliance Team for their collective competitive spirit!
American Window Alliance Hosted by Mathews Brothers in Belfast, Maine
For immediate release: 7/31/07
All nine American Window Alliance (AWA) companies sent a total of 40 representatives to Belfast, Maine as guests of Mathews Brothers a member AWA company. The meeting was sponsored by Deceuninck North America, a vinyl lineal supplier located in Monroe, OH.
Mathews Brothers was chosen as the meeting site because of their 150+ years of successful wood and vinyl window manufacturing history and expertise. The facility has recently been updated and expanded and the AWA members were given access to all levels of the company.
Mathews Brothers owner, Scott Hawthorne and Vice President of Sales and Marketing Steve Hart both led a plant tour in Belfast for all of the AWA members on July 26, 2007. AWA members were greeted by Mathews Brothers employees throughout the tour who were most enthusiastic to show off their company’s manufacturing abilities and their contagious enthusiasm. Each employee shared their window making expertise and their team building focus throughout the plant tour. Their collective pride in their products and company was most evident.
“I saw a lot of smiling faces and engaged Mathews Brothers team members throughout the tour. In some facilities I have toured, the tour guides do all of the talking but on this tour the employees were the tour guides,” stated Mark Adams, Executive Director of the American Window Alliance.
“Through Scott Hawthorne’s leadership and a new on-going training program with nationally respected business coach, Rick Grandinetti this company has a competitive advantage due to positive attitudes and visionary leadership. There is a strong sense of teamwork at Mathews Brothers!” Adams went on to observe.
The AWA members were also given a presentation by Mark Parrish, President of Deceuninck North America which is a company that extrudes exclusive vinyl lineals for the AWA team of vinyl window fabricators. Parrish and his DNA associates Jon Hauberg, Eric Kent, Phil Lester and Darwin Brown presented new vinyl window products and future service strategies for the AWA team of vinyl window fabricators.
The next day all AWA owners also were treated to a Rick Grandinetti presentation sponsored by Deceuninck North America and Mathews Brothers at the Samoset Resort in Rockland, ME. Mr. Grandinetti focused on serving both the internal customers and the external customers. He stressed that great service revolves around being positive and motivated for your fellow employees and your customers.
Grandinetti, from Cary, North Carolina stressed that, “A company can only be successful if it delights one internal customer and one external customer at a time.”
He encouraged all AWA leaders to, “serve other people”, as their path to collective success.
The meeting culminated with the election of new AWA officers for 2008 as follows:
Art Strauss, President (Midway Windows and Doors, Inc., Chicago, IL) Jim Draper, Vice President (Pro Window and Door, Little Rock, AR) Paul Huston, Secretary (Alliance Vinyl Windows of LA, Slidell, LA) Scott Hawthorne, Treasurer (Mathews Brothers, Belfast, ME) Gus Stergis, Chairman (Stergis Aluminum Products, Walpole, MA)
It was also announced that next year’s annual AWA Summer Meeting will be held in Louisiana. This meeting will give the AWA members the opportunity to celebrate the successful comeback story of Alliance Vinyl Windows of Louisiana located in Slidell, La.
Paul Huston, owner of AVW of LA will serve as host in June 2008 and the AWA members will get to see first hand how Huston and AVW of LA survived Hurricane Katrina in 2005 and now are back in business and attacking the coastal region vinyl window markets.
American Window Alliance Members: Mathews Brothers, Belfast, ME Stergis Aluminum Products, Walpole, MA Syron Industries, Syracuse, NY Alliance Vinyl Windows of NJ, Mt. Ephraim, NJ Yale Industries, Inc., Dayton, OH Midway Windows and Doors, Inc., Chicago, IL BMD Window Company, N. Kansas City, MO Pro Window and Door, Little Rock, AR Alliance Vinyl Windows of LA, Slidell, LA
AWA Nominated for Most Innovative Program for Crystal Achievement Award for 2006
The American Window Alliance as a team of fabricators helped save a member's business after Hurricane Katrina.
In late August of 2005 the American Window Alliance was on a professional retreat in Whitefish, MT with members of the AWA which is a group of independent vinyl window manufacturers who service the eastern US.
One member of the AWA is Alliance Windows of Louisiana owned by Paul Huston and located in Slidell, LA. Huston made an emergency trip home as the hurricane approached. His top customer, Kris Anderson of Advanced Building Products which distributes the Alliance window brand in Harahan, LA was also on the trip and returned home to board up his business and evacuate from the area. The results of that hurricane have been well documented and both of these businesses were at risk as their employees scattered and their physical plants were damaged by water and/or wind.
The AWA members immediately saw a need and so they raised nearly $60,000.00 through company and employee contributions to aid the hurricane victims employed by these companies. Huston and Anderson used these funds to provide aid and comfort for their most needy employees.
The AWA even sent technical support teams from member fabricator sites to Slidell. The AWA team of technical experts refurbished and repaired equipment damaged in the storm even as another hurricane approached. Evacuation orders were ignored by these dedicated professionals in order to finish the job.
Due to the effective emergency planning and leadership of Huston and Anderson and with a little help from their AWA friends, both companies are today back on their feet, growing their sales and are examples of what private businesses can do for each other in times of need.
