Northeastern Manufacturing Sees Uptick in Activity
1. Ellison Bronze
Location: Falconer, NY
Products: Custom balanced doors
Founded: 1911
Employees: 60
Price range: $$$
2. Architectural Grille
Location: Brooklyn, NY
Products: Decorative HVAC grille covers, custom metalwork
Founded: 1945
Employees: 58
Price range: $-$$$
3. Infinity Drain
Location: Amityville, NY
Products: Linear drain systems and decorative shower drains
Founded: 2007
Employees: 80
Price range: $$-$$$
4. Bendheim
Location: Passaic, NJ
Products: Decorative architectural glass and glass wall systems for exterior and interior applications
Founded: 1927
Employees: 100+
Price range: $$
5. Accurate Lock & Hardware
Location: Stamford, CT
Products: Mortise locks, pocket door locks, pivot and Harmon hinges, ADA-compliant hardware, ligature-resistant hardware, historical restoration and custom architectural hardware
Founded: 1972
Employees: 110
Price range: $$$
6. LATICRETE
Location: Bethany, CT
Products: Green fl ooring and façade materials for residential, commercial, and industrial applications
Founded: 1956
Employees: 1,600
Price range: $-$$$
7. Electrix Illumination
Location: New Haven, CT
Products: Cove, pocket, and slot LED lighting systems; linear indoor and outdoor solutions
Founded: 1963
Employees: 40
Price range: $-$$
8. STANLEY Access Technologies
Location: Farmington, CT
Products: Automatic sliding doors, automatic swing door operators, intensive care unit doors, platform screen transit doors and gates
Founded: 1931
Employees: 1,300 throughout North America
Price range: $$-$$$
In the Northeast, expansions are a sign of the manufacturing industry’s robust improvement. For example, at Bendheim Architectural Glass, headquartered in Passaic, New Jersey, sales of exterior glazing have doubled in line with management’s decision to purchase additional space—a former Toshiba headquarters in Wayne, New Jersey, spanning 140,000 square feet on 12 acres. “We expect to double in size in three to five years,” says owner and vice president Donald Jayson.
There’s similar momentum statewide, reports Brian Sabina, senior vice president of economic transformation for the New Jersey Economic Development Authority. “New Jersey’s manufacturing activity is up 3.3 percent through September, and overall output is up 4.3 percent,” says Sabina.
At Infinity Drain in Amityville, New York, sales are also up. That strength is viewed as signaling longterm growth because linear drain systems (a significant chunk of the company’s business) have only gained traction in the U.S. in the last decade. “We haven’t reached full market potential yet,” says sales and marketing director Barbara Kratus.
Laticrete in Bethany, Connecticut, a manufacturer of tile and stone installation products reports it must deliver products quicker than it did five years ago. So expanding in areas that are closer to customers has helped them “add value,” says Sean Boyle, vice president of marketing.
Roughly 47 miles south in Stamford, Connecticut, Accurate Lock & Hardware has also stepped up investments in staffing, facilities, and equipment on the heels of a 17 to 18 percent sales increase. Meanwhile, in Farmington, Stanley Access Technologies anticipates year-over-year sales climbing through 2019. For that reason, the company is maintaining “a strong backlog of inventory,” says director of manufacturing Costas Drakatos. Onward and upward.
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