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History of Clopay Building Products
1859 
Clopay established in Cincinnati, Ohio as the Seinsheimer Paper Company, selling paper products and other related items. The name “Clopay” was developed in the early twentieth century as an acronym formed by the contraction of the words “cloth-paper”.
1964
Clopay enters the garage door business with the purchase of Baker-Aldor-Jones of Hialeah, Florida.
1969 Francis Products, Inc. of Russia, Ohio is acquired.
1972 Both Francis and B-A-J change to the Clopay brand.
1986
Clopay is acquired by Instrument Systems Corporation of New York.
1992
Clopay expands its operations with the acquisition of Ideal Door, Phenix Door, and Automatic Door Company.
1994 Clopay leads the door industry with the introduction of the Safety Bottom Bracket, which is designed to prevent accidental injury if a bottom bracket were removed while the door is closed and under spring tension.
1995
Clopay’s parent company takes on a new look and a new name, the “Griffon Corporation”.
1997
Clopay Building Products acquires Holmes-Hally Industries. This makes Clopay Building Products the largest manufacturer of residential doors in the United States.
1998
Clopay again leads the industry with introduction of its patented EZ -Set Spring System, which makes adding spring tension simpler and safer for consumers.
1999
Clopay Building Products divests itself of the Roll-lite® self storage business to better focus its resources on sectional door products. Future As Clopay Building Products invests for the future, a major capital project has been embarked upon: the company-wide implementation of an Oracle Enterprise System, which will facilitate “Building the Bridge to the 21st Century”.
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