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Cortney Anderson Wascher Elected to DHI Board of Governors

The Door + Hardware Institute Serves Door Security + Safety Professionals Jerry Heppes, CAE, CEO of the Door + Hardware Institute announced that Cortney Anderson Wascher has been elected to DHI’s 12-member Board of Governors. She will serve a three-year

Brenda Asta at Wrigley Field in Chicago, IL

Anderson Lock Honors Brenda Asta for 40 Years

At age 17, Brenda Asta joined Anderson Lock through the High School Work Program. After graduation from Maine West, she became Employee #17. But when Gene Anderson told her she would get 3 weeks’ vacation after 7 years, she laughed

Lock Don’t Block

“Lock Don’t Block” is the Door Security and Safety Foundation’s catchphrase to alert decision-makers of the consequences that can come from installing devices that put children at more risk, and schools in liability. A Google search for “classroom barricade devices”

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Providing Annual Fire Door Inspections

Jim Didier, a DHI certified FDAI Fire Door Inspector, measures the clearance under the bottom of a patient room door at Mount St. Joseph’s in Lake Zurich. Jim surveyed 123 doors in six buildings on the

Chris Miller of Anderson Lock adjusting a Door in Windy Chicago

Door Closer Solutions for ‘The Windy City’

On Sunday, February 24, winds in this area reached 60 mph. Semis overturned. Trees were uprooted. Light poles crashed down to the ground. Doors were blown off their hinges. Brian Paluch, the Anderson Lock lock tech assigned to take emergency

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