Clopay Building Products history

The first sectional garage doors can be traced back to 1900.

In 1964, Clopay, purchased an established garage door company, Baker-Aldor-Jones.

1969 Clopay acquired Francis Products of Russia, Ohio.

By 1979, 62 percent of homes built in the United States were constructed with a two-car garage, and those garages needed durable doors to match the increasingly busy lifestyle of the American family.

1980 First steel doors produced.

1983 Pioneered Tog-L-Loc® technology to assemble steel doors and one of the first to use pre-painted steel.

1986 Instrument Systems of New York acquired Clopay Corporation.

1992 Acquired Ideal Door® and Phoenix Door, two Wisconsin-based door companies.

1995 Clopay's parent company, Instrument Systems Corporation, changed name to Griffon Corporation.

1996 Clopay awarded the Good Housekeeping Seal of Approval, the first and only in the garage door industry.

1997 Clopay acquired Holmes-Hally Industries, including Arizona Door Systems of Tempe, AZ, and Holmes Door of Auburn, WA and Holmes-Hally Hardware.

1998 Established Master Authorized Dealer network.

2000 Introduced the Reserve® Collection of beautiful, hand-crafted, wood carriage house doors.

2002 Moved corporate headquarters from downtown Cincinnati to Mason, OH. New facility combined corporate headquarters and a technical development center.

2003 Launched Coachman® Collection of classic carriage house doors that are virtually maintenance-free.

2004 Introduced the Brilliance® Series windows.

2005 Launched Gallery® and Grand Harbor® Collections of stylish and affordable carriage house designs.

2006-07 Purchased 900,000-square-foot manufacturing facility in Troy, OH and moved Tempe, AZ manufacturing to Troy plant.

2008 Launched polyurethane foam-injected residential and commercial doors, Ultra-Grain® paint finish and a line of complementary fiberglass and steel entry doors.

2012 Completed expansion of polyurethane foam-injected door capacity and Ultra-Grain® finish on raised panel doors.

2013 Clopay unveiled Intellicore®, the new brand name for its proprietary polyurethane insulation and Cypress™ Collection of insulated, flush panel garage doors with Ultra-Grain® paint finish.

2014 Color Blast™ custom Sherwin-Williams® paint color program introduced for Commercial and Residential steel doors.

2015 Began the expansion of our Troy facility to better service our customers and add new products.

2016 Introduced the Modern Steel Collection.

2017 Introduced a Commercial Door Quoting tool (CDQ) to make it easy and efficient to quote commercial doors.

2018 Acquired CornellCookson, the largest commercial and industrial coiling door manufacturer.