The closure is designed as a cost-saving measure, allowing the company to deliver complete orders, with entry doors and windows together in a single shipment, and reduce the manufacturing costs of those products, Amy Lewis, a Peachtree spokeswoman told the Wausau Daily Herald.
Both the Peachtree Cos. and Weather Shield are owned by the Schield family of Medford, Wis. The Peachtree operations include Peachtree Door & Window and SNE Enterprises, acquired from Nortek Inc. in 2001. They sell windows and doors under the Peachtree, Crestline and Vetter names and continue to operate manufacturing plants in Mosinee, Wis., and Huntington, W.Va.