New Products & Innovations

At LAS we believe if you aren’t innovating or improving your products constantly, you are falling behind. We always have plans underway and in the design phase. Our goal is to lead the way for aluminum shutters and stay ahead of the competition.

With our decorative Homegard shutter line, we strive to make the most aesthetically pleasing products which deliver that artisan, pleasing look of wood shutters; but without the issues that come with wood in our environmental region, such as inevitable rotting, sagging, and annual repainting.

Our raised panel offering one of our most recent innovations. When manufacturing a wood raised panel or recessed panel shutter, a slab of wood is carved or routed around the edge to give that raised or recessed panel look. It is a relatively simple process that requires a router and the proper bit with the profile you want. Since it is not feasible to carve a slab of aluminum in the same way while being cost effective, we started the process of designing a raised panel shutter in 2012.

The challenges included designing an extruder friendly profile, designing a process to create very tight tolerance panels, and a lasting bonding process to tie it all together. At the time we started this process, there was no example in the market of what we were trying to achieve so we went through quite a few brainstorms and revisions and extrusion tooling.

Finally in 2014, we built our first raised panel shutters completely in house and it has been a popular new offering ever since. At this time, we were still the only company advertising and building such a shutter out of aluminum to the best of our knowledge; but the feedback was so positive, it wasn’t long before competitors’ suppliers came out with their versions of an aluminum raised panel shutter a year later.

We are proud to be leading the way for our industry and have many more projects in the design phase right now. We are excited for our new offerings coming Fall 2017.

Julia,
On behalf of Lighthouse Louisiana (formerly The Lighthouse for the Blind), please convey my thanks once again to your coworkers for supporting our summer camp for children who are blind. It is a rare thing to see a corporate family like yours, where people get together and give from their own hard-earned paychecks to local groups that are doing good work in the community. As donors, sometimes it’s hard to know what donations to organizations we care about are actually being used for. We consider LAS an important investor in our work, and we cannot thank you enough for helping us serve our clients.

Thank you,
Erin McQuade Wright
Director of Development

We just finished getting new windows from LAS and I can’t be any happier. From start to finish, this job was done professionally. The salesman, Garrett, came to the house on time and explained the windows and the process and answered any questions that we had at the time. He indicated the person who would do the measurements would call and set up an appointment within two weeks and the the windows would be built and installed in about 5 weeks. Well, the job – from the initial estimate to complete install – was three weeks. The installed that completed the job did an excellent job of install, caulking and cleanup. We can’t give them a higher rating. The most amazing thing so far is the look and how much it has cut down on outside noise. I highly recommend LAS and since they are local, from repairs to employing people, we keep it right here at home. We are very satisfied customers.