CHESTERFIELD, Mo., May 3, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- MiTek Inc.,
a Berkshire Hathaway company (NYSE: BRK-A,
NYSE: BRK-B), today announces the realignment of
three well-known brands providing structural framing solutions
to the building industry. Driven by industry demand
and organizational collaboration, these structural
framing building solutions will proudly be offered as part of
the comprehensive MiTek® portfolio of building
solutions.
Our vision and complete focus are to better leverage all our
technology and capabilities as MiTek
These structural framing building solutions include:
- Benson® Curtain Wall and Benson® Glass, a
global design, prefabrication, and installation custom solution for
glass and curtain walls;
- SidePlate™ Connection Designs, the innovative and
optimized moment frame connection design; and
- Ultra-Span® Floor and Ultra-Span®
Roof Trusses, prefabricated cold-formed steel framing
products.
Now offered under the MiTek® name, customers will
continue to receive the same great solutions and services they have
come to expect.
MiTek collaborates across the building industry to
transform the way its customers design, make, and build
utilizing off-site construction. With MiTek's
expanding focus on accelerating design and supporting the building
industry with a growing set of services
and off-site building solutions, customers and
partners are equipped to meet their challenges and the demands
of the current positive market cycle with greater efficiency and
overall confidence.
"Integrating these three former standalone operations
into a unified MiTek portfolio of solutions is part of what
has been a multi-year journey for us, following a period of
acquisitions beginning in 2008," said Mark A. Thom, Chairman & Chief Executive
Officer of MiTek. "We're excited to further simplify our
branding to MiTek®, while maximizing how these
solutions add value to our customers' business and the
way we help them use off-site means to build better. Our
vision and complete focus are to better leverage all
our technology and capabilities as MiTek, to further
help our partners transform global
communities. The need has never been greater for speed and
efficiency from design to completion to help meet
the rapidly growing demand for smarter, more affordable,
and more sustainable homes and buildings. We
continue to reshape MiTek to unlock that power."
MiTek believes that the building industry's future
relies on better design methods and overall connectivity of
the supply chain and the information, services, and building
methods required to complete any
project. Better end-to-end approaches and the use
of off-site methods whenever possible should help
to meet today's global building challenges in
a more robust and sustainable way.
"Bringing these structural framing solutions together more
fully under the MiTek name will give our customers expanded
access to new services and software solutions,
and further innovations in off-site building
that will transform the way the industry designs, makes, and
builds," said Lance Howard, President, Commercial Building
Solutions. "This is a natural next step that will further
harmonize our team and solutions within MiTek's broader
technology solutions. In the end, this should help us even better
serve as an ally for our partners."
About MiTek
MiTek is a platform innovator and enabler that exists to
transform the building industry with better building solutions. In
1955, MiTek transformed residential construction with the
invention of the Gang-Nail plate and a digital platform
that provided an affordable and scalable way to
manufacture wood trusses. Today, MiTek delivers software,
services, engineered products, and automated solutions that enable
the building industry to improve efficiencies by optimizing the
balance between off-site and on-site.
With nearly 5,600 team members worldwide, MiTek
collaborates across the building industry to enable and accelerate
transformational breakthroughs in design and
construction to transform the way the
industry designs, makes, and builds. As a Berkshire Hathaway
(NYSE: BRK-A, NYSE: BRK-B) company since 2001, MiTek has a record
of continuous growth and innovation. Learn more
at www.mii.com.
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