Guardian Industries Corporation

Company Profile

■URL

https://www.guardian.com

■Address

2300 Harmon Road, Auburn Hills, Michigan, 48326-1714, USA

Business Overview

-The Company primarily focuses on the development and manufacturing of high-performance float glass, providing coated, value-added, and fabricated glass products for multiple industries, including the automotive industry. The Company also develops high-value coatings on plastic components for the automotive industry.

-The Company operates through two businesses:

Guardian Glass supplies float glass, value-added glass and fabricated glass products and solutions.
SRG Global provides high-value coatings on plastic.

-In February 2017, Koch Industries, Inc. completed the acquisition of the Company, making the Company a wholly owned subsidiary of Koch Industries.

Shareholders

-The Company is a wholly owned subsidiary of Koch Industries, a multinational conglomerate corporation.

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Products

Guardian Glass
-Windshields
-Side glass/Backlites/Liftgates
-All-purpose green tinted glass
-PrivaGuard automotive glass providing low natural light transmission, reduced solar thermal load
-Solar Management Glass (SMG) providing high light transmission and increased solar heat-shielding

SRG Global
Front/Rear end
-Grilles
-Emblems and nameplates
-Fascia appliques
-Liftgate moldings
-Spoilers
-Rear appliques

Body Side
-Body side moldings
-Fuel filler systems
-Claddings
-Rocker panels
-Wheel flares/arches
-Wheel covers
-Door handles

Greenhouse
-A, B, C, D pillars
-Window surround moldings
-Cowls
-Door handles
-Ditch moldings
-Belt moldings

Other
-Roof appliques
-Motorcycle trim
-Motorcycle fairings
-Commercial vehicle grilles
-Commercial vehicle trim

Interior accents
-Center console trim
-Instrument panel trim
-Overhead trim
-Seating trim
-Door panel trim
-Steering wheel trim components
-Interior assemblies

Subsystems
-Active grille shutters
-Integrille semi- or fully-integrated decorative exterior grille with active grille shutters
-Integrated lighting on grilles, emblems, trunk lid finishers, interior, and radomes
-Lidar covers
-Radomes
-Heated radomes
-Retroreflectors

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History

1932	Guardian Glass Company began as a small windshield fabricator in Detroit.
1968	The Company is renamed Guardian Industries.
2000	Distribution centers open in Mexico City and Colombia
2003	Begins operations of float plant in Goole, East Riding of Yorkshire, England.
2004	Begins operations of float plant in El Marques, Mexico.
2006	The Company breaks ground for a new float glass facility in Ras Al Khaimah, United Arab Emirates. The Company breaks ground for a new float glass facility in Ryazan, Russia.
2007	Begins operations of float plant in Ras Al Khaimah, United Arab Emirates.
2009	Combined its automotive trim operations to create a new company SRG Global Inc. which supplies plastic parts for auto manufacturers.
2013	Formed joint venture manufacturing facility with alliance partner Faltec Co., Ltd. called FALTEC SRG Global (Thailand) Co., Ltd. to produce radiator grilles, body side moldings and other components.
2013	Formed a new company called Custom Glass Solutions, which provides specific glass solutions for various transportation segments.
Nov. 2014	Divested Guardian Automotive Products, Inc. and Guardian Automotive-E S.A. to Central Glass Co., Ltd.
Jul. 2016	SRG Global opened an Asia-Pacific headquarters in Hong Kong, China.
Feb. 2017	Acquired by Koch Industries Inc., through a transaction of the Company's remaining 55.5% of outstanding shares.