Andersen Windows

Anchoring and adjustment heuristic, 2199 Andersen Consulting, 950 Andersen Windows, 783 Andon (visual control system), 549 Angular transducers, 1902 Anheuser-Busch, 2129 Animation (digital human modeling), 1116, 1120, 1125-1127... 

Andersen Windows, which dominates the use of wood-filled PVC for window and door lineals, uses the waste PVC generated intheir cladding operations as a polymer base for their composites, typically formulated from 60% PVC and 40% wood. 

There are a variety of WPC products in the market These commerdal products could originate from virgin or recycled polymers and virgin or reclaimed wood. For instance, Andersen Windows Company utilizes waste PVC from their manufacturing plant in producing WPC window components. Certain Teed Company uses recycled fibers in their Boardwalk plastic composites. Some examples of WPC products and their major components are listed in Table 13.4, with a focus on the United States, which has the biggest WPC market for building applications. 

Andersen Windows, a major manufacturer of residential wood windows located in Bayport, Minnesota, has invested in an information systan that enables the company to bring customized products to the market rapidly. This systan, called Window of Knowledge, allows distributors and customers to design windows to custom-fit their needs. Users can select from a library of more than 50,000 components that can be combined in any number of ways. The system immediately gives the customer price quotes and automatically sends the order to the factory if the customer decides to buy. This information investment not only gives the customer a much wider variety of products, but also allows Andersen to be much more responsive to the customer, as it gets the customer s order to the factory as soon as the order is placed. 

Vinyl wood fiber composites are now common in decking, railings, moldings, picture frames, and other profile extrusions. Such products are sold by, among others, Andersen Window, Certain Teed, Compos-A-Tron, Crane Plastics, Lida Plastics of Japan, Marley Mouldings, Profile Solutions, Royal, Tri-Ex Composites, and Youngstown Plastics. Most of the expansion in this rapidly growing area has come about in the last two decades. It is worthwhile to consider how this has happened. 

There is similarly no mention of pretreatment other than drying to specified moisture levels in the 1998 patent filing by Finley (Andersen) directed to window... 

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