He lost a major customer, a window manufacturer in Texas that went bankrupt.

Richard Wallrath, a window manufacturer who had spent a total of more than $2 million on steers in past rodeos, sat nearby.

Mr. Frankel's father retired as an owner of the Glendale Mill Company, a door and window manufacturer in Los Angeles.

Industry has diversified since, into creameries, window manufacturers, plastics, and food processing - mostly at Medford.

The NFRC rates most energy star rated window manufacturers.

Often, though, you must obtain this special kind of stripping from the window manufacturer.

"Wood has a look and richness that some people love," said Joe Doherty, owner of Precision Windows, a wood-frame window manufacturer in the Bronx.

Sales at Hunter Douglas Inc., a leading window blind manufacturer, for instance, jumped to $340 million in 1988, up from $40 million in 1987.

As of 2005, the building is owned by a window manufacturer.

Among current time bombs are the roughly $500,000 lent to a window manufacturer that branched into installation and, as Mr. Donatuti put it, "got burnt big-time."