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has been the invention of the Cascadia Clip, a
thermal spacer that doubles the effective R-
value of a conventional exterior insulated wall,
Battistel explained. The product is in demand
across North America, and is a very big seller
for Cascadia.
The innovative window company has made
huge strides in six years. They’re recognized as
a high quality company with excellent products
and the market for fiberglass windows contin-
ues to grow. Their greatest challenge now lies
in the search for skilled labour, which can be
difficult given the company’s consistent growth
rate.
“There’s no other fiberglass window manu-
facturing company on the West Coast so when
we hire people to produce the products or
work in our shop, they don’t have any previ-
ous fiberglass window manufacturing experi-
ence. We have to train them from scratch so
that’s difficult,” Battistel explained. “There’s
that learning curve in the beginning.”
But that continuous effort to expand the
Cascadia Windows team has its silver lining. It
means the high rate of growth they’ve been ex-
periencing year after year is showing no signs
of slowing down.
“We are planning on continuing to grow and
we’re going to be growing not only in this mar-
ket, but we’re going to be expanding into other
markets,” Battistel said. “One of the key things
for us is we’re going to continue to innovate
new products and new solutions to help build-
ings become more energy efficient and help
with energy conservation.”
