About Glasfloss Industries
Glasfloss Industries, LP recognizes that the company is a collection of peoples' thoughts and actions directed toward a common purpose. As a dependable, responsive, and innovative manufacturer of quality air filtration products, it is our intent to bring the highest standards of performance and services to:
....our customers; the air filtration market worldwide, by supplying high quality products that meet their needs at competitive prices.
....our employees; by providing them with a role in the growth and success of the company, and with input in the planning of its future. This includes an equal opportunity to share our growth, commitment and excitement in the achievement of excellence.
....our stockholders; by providing a talented stewardship of their assets, a full and honest accounting, a profitable return on their investment and a strong and growing company into the future.
We believe that through this commitment our mutual purpose will continually be attained.
Glasfloss Industries: Making History Since 1936
In The Beginning......
In 1936 America was still in the depths of the Great Depression, Roosevelt won re-election over Landon in a landslide, Boulder Dam (later renamed for Hoover) was completed, and in New York City, two engineers, Horace R. Lange and Theodore J. Tottis, started a small business in a new industry. As Air Duct Installation Co., they designed and built commercial ventilating and air-conditioning systems. The glass fiber disposable air filter had been introduced two years earlier by Owens Corning, which was the only manufacturer in the field.
Most commercial air conditioning systems were custom-designed, requiring special-sized filters. Owens Corning's operations were focused on glass manufacturing and the production of standard-sized furnace filters. Contractors with orders for special filters could not get prompt delivery and sometimes had to put systems into operation without filters. Air Duct began making special-sized filters for themselves and other contractors in the New York area to meet this need. Because Owens Corning would not sell its filter media in bulk, the filters were first made by disassembling standard filters, re-cutting the media and screens, and fabricating new frames to specifications.
As the air conditioning industry expanded, the need for original and replacement special-sized filters grew quickly. Owens Corning finally agreed to sell Lange and Tottis filter media in bulk. They became the first authorized independent fabricators of "Dustop" air filters in the United States. Lange and Tottis formed a new enterprise called "Air Filters Co." solely for the manufacture and sale of filters.