Thermoseal Glass Corporation was founded in 1956 by Ira Fine, and his brother-in-law, Irving Newman at its present location in Gloucester City, New Jersey, across the Delaware River from Center City Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Always trying to build a better unit, in 1975, Irv Newman received the company's first patent for an electrically-energized glass panel and circuit breaker combination. With the help of Ira's business acumen and Irv's inventive spirit, these two entrepreneurs grew Thermoseal from a small glass insulator, to a company that produced more than 200,000 Insulating Glass units per year.

In 1996,Baypointe Industries, owned by Rick Chubb, acquired Thermoseal shortly after the untimely death of Ira Fine. Over the next several years, the company upgraded its management systems and personnel, computers, and plant equipment to move into the 21st century as an industry leader in insulating glass and door systems.

In 1996, Thermoseal built insulating glass units (IGU's) using a manually-intensive, corner-keyed hollow aluminum spacer assembly method, that created hermetically-sealed IG units primarily using single-seal polysulfide. This was the industry standard.

Today, Thermoseal assembles state-of-the-art dual-sealed IG units using fully automated assembly equipment with industry-leading Warm-Edge spacer systems from Edgetech IG in Cambridge, Ohio. In only 12 short years, Thermoseal went from being a one-design manufacturer with a highly-manual process, to being an automated manufacturer capable of producing virtually any type of IG unit imaginable.

In 1997, Thermoseal developed the first-ever 100% corrugated shipping wedge for allowing IG units to be shipped on standard float glass racks without shearing the edge sealing system.

In 1999, Thermoseal developed and subsequently patented its ICEglass^TM simulated glue-chip, ice-pattern insulating glass product line.

In 2000, Thermoseal developed the first thermally-welded PVC Swing Door for the bottle cooler industry, and was awarded a patent on this technology in 2004.

In June, 2004, Thermoseal received ISO 9001:2000 Certification, after only 9 months from start-to-finish.

In July, 2006, Thermoseal changed its name to Thermoseal Industries, LLC to reflect its broadened manufacturing scope. In that same year, Thermoseal started producing Vinyl Welded Doors for the Commercial Refrigeration Market. In March 2007, Thermoseal went into full production of its patent-pending welded PVC sliding glass door system for refrigerated bottle cooler applications.

"This system represents a huge advancement in sliding glass door technology for the commercial refrigeration industry, and we expect to receive robust patent protection for this invention, particularly in light of its numerous novel features", stated Rick Chubb, President. More designs are "in the works" that leverage this new technology, and we anticipate launching numerous new products in 2009.

In 2007, Thermoseal acquired its present 40,000 square foot IG assembly facility conveniently located across the bridge from Philadelphia, PA, the City of Brotherly Love. Including its door production line and warehouse facility located 2 blocks away from its IG factory, Thermoseal operates in approximately 70,000 square feet of manufacturing space.

In 2008, Thermoseal acquired a state-of-the-art automated insulating glass production line. This automated process utilizing SuperSpacer, Thermoseal continues to be on the forefront of warm edge technology.

In 2009, Thermoseal received UL Approval for its new patent-pending heated corner key. This innovative new corner key allows for electrically-heated Insulating Glass units to be produced on an automated production line, rather than the traditional means of manual assembly. Also in 2009, Thermoseal received NSF Listing for its entire product line of door and viewport systems.

In 2010, Thermoseal added a new state-of-the-art double-bay, dual-convection flat glass tempering furnace to better serve our customers. We can now temper all types of coated and uncoated glass in varying sizes to better serve our customers, including the highest-performance soft-coat Low-E glass available in North America, in thicknesses ranging from 3mm to 19mm.

Following installation of our new flat glass tempering furnace, Thermoseal successfully passed the Safety Glazing Certification Council (SGCC) requirements for certifying its tempered glass to rigorous ANSI Z97 safety glass standards, in all glass thicknesses we supply.

Thermoseal recently implemented industry-leading FeneVision® MRP software for controlling our insulating glass and door manufacturing operations. Used by more than 100 commercial glass fabricators worldwide, FeneVision® is one of the highest-performance MRP systems available on the world market for glass and door companies like Thermoseal. Over the next few months, we will implement a new web-based customer portal that will allow our customers to enter their own orders, price their own product and track their own orders in real-time using the advanced capabilities of the industry-leading FeneVision® software.

Thermoseal has installed new flat glass fabricating equipment to support our expanded product offerings in glass and mirror with edge work, holes and other fabrication, including screen printed glass with Polymer, UV-cure or ceramic frit inks, in virtually any color.

Thermoseal has implemented a new, state-of-the-art automated glass drawer storage and retrieval system for automatically loading flat glass cutting stock on our high-speed CNC glass cutting line. This new system increases productivity, improves cutting yields and increases personnel safety within the plant by minimizing the direct contact employees must have with annealed glass cutting stock.

In 2011, Thermoseal will complete the installation of a brand new, 250,000 Watt roof-top Solar Panel System at its insulating glass facility in Gloucester City, NJ, and we will then be able to generate approximately 50% of our total energy requirements via clean, renewable solar technology. We will be one of a very small number of "green" glass fabricators in the nation, and we expect to reduce our carbon footprint by more than 35%.

Since its inception in 1956, Thermoseal has sold in excess of 10 million insulating glass units to the commercial refrigeration, oven, test laboratory, and architectural markets.


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