In the late 1950s, Harvey Asmus began touting a new way to farm. Chemical weed control was not a foreign concept, but it hadn't been adopted by the masses. Soon enough though, local farmers came around and Asmus' business venture, Asmus Farm Supply, was off and running. More than a half-century later, AFS is still going strong. Helping keep the business running smoothly is a new fleet maintenance building, equipped with a hydraulic door from Schweiss Doors.

Recently, the City of Austin, Texas built an entirely new central library building to serve its citizens, and in designing the building, architects from Lake Flato Architects and Shepley Bulfinch chose perforated anodized aluminum from Lorin Industries, Inc. as a central façade design element.

1848 Construction Inc. of Middleton, WI used a Rigid Frame structural system from Varco Pruden Buildings to construct the GRB Academy, an impressive indoor baseball and softball training facility in DeForest, WI.

High-end stroller retailer UPPAbaby, based in Rockland, MA, turned to a modern glass and Metl-Span insulated metal panel façade for its new 45,000-square-foot headquarters. The mixed-use project accommodates a warehouse and maintenance workshop, a retail front to conduct direct-to-consumer business, and ample office space.

CENTRIA, a leading building envelope science company, provided 6,570 total square feet of metal panels from its Formawall Dimension Series, Graphix and Ecoscreen® perforated screenwall lines for the new Kent Police Station in Kent, Ohio.