THE HISTORY OF AFFINITY WINDOWS
Affinity Windows is the culmination of 3
generations in the window and door manufacturing process combined with
over 200 years of production experience within our management teams. We
are all seasoned professionals that focus on exceeding our customer’s
expectations at every level of our product offerings and customer
services.
The principals of the company are Craig Seller, President and John Pieczkolon, Vice President.
Craig began his career by working in his
father’s window plant, Dakim Manufacturing which was founded in 1964. Jerry
Seller was a pioneer in replacement window manufacturing, owning and
operating one of the first replacement window plants on the east coast.
Craig worked throughout the entire plant, learning the business from the
bottom up. During his college years, Craig explored an opportunity in the
physically demanding but lucrative field of window installations. After 3
years, he became a highly preferred expert window installer who was
contracted by many local window companies
Additionally, Craig has personally trained many
of the finest window installers working in the Philadelphia area today.
After 11 years of installing windows, Craig saw a significant opportunity in
the window manufacturing industry. After Jerry Seller passed away in 1974,
Craig continued to install windows running 6 trucks. In 1981 he discontinued
installing windows and opened the Weather-Tite Manufacturing Corporation in
a 3,000 square foot building in Philadelphia. He began by selling aluminum
bow and bay window products to local window manufacturers, and offered the
unique service of installing them as well.
Within a couple of years, Weather-Tite became an
enormous success with our customers. At that time, we incorporated a
complete product line of vinyl replacement windows to complement our line of
bow and bay products and by 1985 became a full service window manufacturer.
The new product line consisted of: double-hung, slider, casement, awning,
and picture windows, as well as the afore-mentioned bow and bay windows,
helping to satisfy all of our customers’ needs.
By 1987, Weather-Tite was in its third phase and
transitioned into yet another larger building in Philadelphia. It is at this
time when we made one of our most important decisions in Weather-Tite’s
history. We were one of the first in the U.S. to begin extruding our own
vinyl material, operating 2 twin screw extrusion lines.
In 2000, Mr. Seller introduced lean
manufacturing to the production facility, using the Japanese method of
“Kaizen”, meaning “continuous improvement.” The Kaizen method focuses on
efficient manufacturing and eliminating production defects by scrutinizing
even the most minute details of all products and processes. This method
helped boost Toyota to the world’s largest and highest quality automotive
manufacturer at that time. Likewise, we realized huge improvements in
productivity, safety, and quality.
In 2008 Mr. Seller departed Weather-Tite to begin planning a new venture with his sons and a new
partner John Pieczkolon CPA. The purpose of this new venture was to raise
the level of the existing products in the market and produce America’s
highest Quality, best performing window and door products. To that end we
contracted with the nation’s highest quality suppliers of all components
used in our Energex Window and Door products.
Our Goal is to provide our customers with a
product that is pleasing to the eye, structurally sound, energy efficient,
yet rigorous enough to stand the test of time.
