Thank you to everyone that joined us for Linetec’s 34th Annual Customer & Supplier Appreciation Golf Outing! What a perfect day for a golf outing! The temperature was a comfortable 75 degrees, with a slight wind and sunshine throughout the day. This year, we had a completely full line-up: 144 golfers on 36 teams! It’s […]
As a single source solution for anodize, paint and specialty finishing, as well as value-added services, Linetec has published five new brochures available for download or, by request, in print. The anodize and painted finishes brochures present benefits, specification criteria, care and cleaning, and describes Linetec’s color choices, processes, quality control, material size guidelines and […]
Q: Tell me about your job A: Ugh. Q: What did you do prior to Linetec? A: I worked at IBM for several years in financial roles, in MN and NY. Prior to that, I worked in the factory of a steel wire company in Milwaukee during my college years. Q: What is your […]
In warm climates and summer months, air conditioning and natural ventilation provide relief from the heat outside. No one wants to feel like they are roasting in a glass-enclosed stairwell or breaking into a sweat next to a closed window. Window, skylight, curtainwall, storefront and entrance systems with thermally improved aluminum framing and high-performance glass […]
Wausau, Wisconsin (July 2019) – Linetec’s Paul Bratz has been promoted to quality assurance manager and Brandon Slowiak has been named to Bratz’s previous role as paint operations manager. Bratz reports to Andy Joswiak, Linetec’s vice president of technical and engineering, and Slowiak reports to Mike Schauls, vice president of operations. Together, they support the […]
Blue, gray and red tones comprise the palette of colors for the new Public Safety Training Center facility in Round Rock, Texas, inspired by the uniforms of the first responders who train there. Linetec applied 70%, two-coat, PVDF resin-based, Fluropon® architectural coatings to finish 11,600 square feet of Dri-Design’s painted aluminum panels for the training […]
On this day in history, July 12, 1949, Apogee was born. The History of Apogee Two glass workers and a car salesman pooled their money and leased part of an old General Tire store, and on July 12, 1949 Harmon Glass Company was born. In 1950, a young attorney, Russ Baumgardner, helped Harmon to its […]
Wausau, Wisconsin (July 2019) – Chicago Union Station is the third busiest in the U.S. serving 3 million Amtrak customers and 35 million Metra passengers annually, using 300 trains for 120,000 commuters on a typical weekday. As the station approaches its 100th anniversary, it has been re-envisioned and restored to a level that suits the […]
Q: Tell me about your job A: I manage the LMI and thermal operations at Linetec. Our Linetec Managed Inventory (LMI) program currently has inventory belonging to 39 different customers. Our thermal department provides pour and debridge, as well as strut processes to improve the thermal properties of aluminum extrusions. Q: What did you do […]
While many are aware of the wide selection of finishing choices available for architectural aluminum products installed on buildings’ exteriors, some may not know that they have the same creative freedom and performance reliability for interior finishing options. With Linetec as your single-source solution for finishing, not only is the color selection practically unlimited, so […]