AWARDS & PATENTS

2023

Window + Door Award
Most Innovative Door Component

GlassCraft's Houdini Hardware has won the Window & Doors Awards for "Most Innovative Door Component 2023"! This patent-pending hardware system provides for a sliding or barn door with no visible rail or hardware mounted on the wall, giving it a sleek and modern look.
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2023

[DWM] Reader's Choice Award

GlassCraft Door Company's Houdini Hardware Kit, honored with the 2023 DWM Reader's Choice Award, features concealed rails and rollers discreetly mounted at the door's edges. Bottom-mounted wheels ensure smooth, floor-level rolling, supporting the door's entire weight while maintaining a hidden hardware design.
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2019

DWM Magazine Green Award

Door and Window Market [DWM] magazine, a business-to-business publication that's devoted exclusively to the coverage of the door and window industries, recently recognized six companies with its prestigious Annual Green Awards.
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2017

Crystal Achievement Award
Most Innovative Entry Door

"Most Innovative Entry Door" honors for Window and Door's 2017 Crystal Achievement Awards. GlassCraft's ThermaPlus steel composite doors received the award for ingenuity of design and for excelling in value and performance.
2015

Crystal Achievement Award
Most Innovative Door Component

Window & Door Magazine recognizes GlassCraft's BioFoamTM with the Crystal Achievement Award. BioFoam is a plant-based foam fill material that contains no formaldehyde, harmful air pollutants, or volatile organic compounds, developed by GlassCraft as an alternative to polyurethane insulating foam.
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2014

Crystal Achievement Award
Unique Innovation

The Crystal Achievement Awards are presented annually by Window & Door Magazine, to recognize significant innovations and achievements in window and door technology, manufacturing and marketing. For 2014, GlassCraft is honored to receive the award for Unique Innovation.
2014

Texas Environmental
Excellence Award

The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality honors GlassCraft as one of the winners of the 22nd Annual Texas Environmental Excellence Awards, which recognize innovative and effective projects that prevent pollution and preserve natural resources in Texas.
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2014

Manufacturing Leadership Award
in Sustainability

The ML Awards is the premier program for honoring companies and individual leaders that are shaping the future of global manufacturing. With this 2014 recognition for Sustainability, GlassCraft joins a prestigious list of past winners that includes 3M, Boeing Co., Coca-Cola, Eaton Corporation, Ford Motor Co., General Electric Co., General Motors Co., IBM, Motorola, Nalco and Raytheon.
2012

Crystal Achievement Award
Most Innovative Door

GlassCraft received Window & Door's Crystal Achievement Award 2012 for Most Innovative Door in the Small-Medium Manufacturer category.

Patents

Grille Between the Glass (GBG)

Decorative Security Panels for Doors and Windows

US7950193

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Method for Making Decorative Security Panels

US8061036

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Method for Making a Door with Decorative Security Panel

US8171644

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Method of Making a Window with Decorative Security Panel

US8171643

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Wrought Iron Grille Connector

Connector for Connecting Grilles to Doors

US8141833

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Grille Assembly for Doors and Method for Making

US8146304

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Plugless Door Lite Insert Frame

Dual Support Connector Assembly for Doors and Windows

US8359796

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Door Assembly with Dual Support Connector Assembly

US8365480

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Method for Forming a Door Assembly with Dual Support Connector

US8434284

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Door Assembly with Dual Support Connector

US10030434

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Dual Support Connector Assembly

US10012018

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FiberCraft Door Technology

Method for Forming Faux Distress Marks in FiberCraft Doors

US8538569

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Method for Making a Component with Wood Grained Appearance

US8722151

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Automated System for Making Wood Grained Appearance

US8689732

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Accelerated Low Toxicity Method of Making Composite Door

US8845847

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