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Hy-Lite Marks 30 Years of Making Acrylic Block Products

Happy birthday to us!

2018 marks three decades since we first started making acrylic block products. Since our launch in 1988 we've made hundreds of thousands of acrylic block products from windows to privacy panels to interior shutters to door inserts.

"Our company revolutionized the privacy window market 30 ago by introducing pre-framed acrylic block windows," says Roger Murphy, president of Hy-Lite, a U.S. Block Windows Company. "These were launched as an alternative to heavy, old-fashioned glass block.

"We found a way to make our lightweight, architectural-grade acrylic blocks lighter and easier to install than traditional glass blocks. And, by offering them in a durable frame, the acrylic block window units eliminated the mortar, mess and time-consuming labor on the jobsite of creating old-fashioned glass block windows one block at a time."

According to Murphy, Hy-Lite currently manufactures hundreds of thousands of acrylic blocks each year. That translates to millions of acrylic blocks our company has created in the past 30 years.

Timeless Acrylic Block Products
Before Hy-Lite Products, Inc. was even 10 years old, U.S. Block Windows, Inc. was founded. This move, in 1996, further modernized the privacy window market as we launched cut-to-size and fully-operable acrylic block windows.

As requests for acrylic block windows grew, U.S. Block Windows, Inc. acquired the assets of Hy-Lite Products, Inc. in 2009. The union of the two companies allowed the growth of acrylic block products to continue with the launch of door inserts, energy-efficient block options, impact-resistant blocks and unique partition applications.

"Acrylic block products are timeless," says Murphy. "They serve as both a design element for the home or a commercial project along with offering privacy.

"In our three decades of manufacturing we've truly seen growth in requests for these unique units; this is a product that people continue to embrace."