21 - MANOIKSTKK IIKHAl-D. Tluirsiki\. .luiU' H mm Maine skylight maker has eyes on Texas By Bruce B. Bakke 'I'here are three main markets for “ I would say there are a lot of local Drinking age bill hits Nutmeg’s ‘Whorehouse’ Bolton board United Pi;fss International skylights. manufacturers out there getting into the The rapidly growing residential market business. It’s not difficult to get into and nixes grievance DALLAS — The market for residential includes skylights for new houses qnd for there’s a lot of cheap, low-quality skylights roadblock^ln Senate Is raunchy — but fun skylights is booming and Wasco Products refurbished and renovated older homes. available,” Roeger said. Inc. seeks to dominate the business. "Som e reports show a skylight runs second "Y ou can buy a skylight for $19.95. But 1 ... page A ... page 13 ... page 19 "W asco wants to be the No. 1 brand in only to a fireplace as the most desired don’t know if you’d want to put it in your home skylights,” Robert C. Roeger, the option in a home,” Roeger said. roof.” • T company’s national sales manager said on The second market segment is commer­ Roeger said competitors seem to be a recent trip to Texas. "W e’re going after cial, Industrial and institutional. Skylights jumping into the skylight business ’ ’alinost dominance in the marketplace in all three now are built into everything from offices on a daily basis.” Although many of their segments (of the skylight market).” and warehouses to retail stores. products are cheap and will need A key to this strategy is Wasco's plant in Custom architechtural systems make up replaced in just a few years, he said, “ that Ennis, Texas, a small town just on the edge the third area in the skylight industry. doesn’t mean all are garbage products. of the Dallas metropolitan area, where Modern architects often use huge skylights Some of them are high quality products. Clear, cool tonight; Manchester, Conn. Wasco has been making residential sky­ to top off and bring light into such Wasco, which likes to think of its line as Sunny, pleasant Saturday lights since 1979. Wasco, based in Sanford, structures as maiis and atriums. the “ Cadillac of the business, ” sells through Friday, June 15, 1984 Maine, plans to double the size of its “ Today one out of five windows put into a a network of distributors. Us suggested — See page 2 Single copy; 25C manufacturing plant in Ennis and relocate house is a skylight,” Roeger said. “ W e’re retail price for residential skylights ranges its residential skylight division there. hoping soon it will be one out of three.” from $140 to $450, depending on the size. iSanrkatrr Irrato "The Ennis facility enhances our mission About SO percent of the residential, Wasco products should last as long as the to be the brand name recognizd in the skylights are sold to contractors who rest of the roof, Roeger said. industry," Roeger said, remodel homes. Between 40 and 45 percent The skylight industry is growing on an Texas is the most active homebuilding are built into new homes, and the other 5 to annual basis of 30 to 35 percent per year, he market in the nation and the Ennis 10 percent are installed by do-it- said, despite some early problems. operation puts Wasco in a good position to yourselfers. expand in the Southwest. Ennis is Wasco’s "The size of the residential market today Business only manufacturing facility outside of is probably between $100 million and $125 Roeger said Wasco’s sales last year Iran is ready Sanford. million a year,” Roeger said. “ The total rea ch ^ about $16.5 million and this year "T o serve the robust housing markets in skylight market today is $350 million. The the company goal is $20 million. Texas and other Southwestern states a residential market is growing rapidly; it’s Although new housing accounts for a inflation supplier has to be close to the homebuilders. the fastest growing segment.” large percentage of the residential skylight They want to be assured of fast deliveries But it is a competitive business. In Texas sales, Roeger said Wasco is not adversely to halt attacks and reliable supply, often on short notice,” alone, Roeger estimates, there are 30 influenced by the up and down cycles of the manufacturers of home skylights. new housing market. still low Roeger said. WASHINGTON (UPI) - Whole­ sale prices were unchanged in May on Gulf ships \ as falling food prices canceled risisig costf;.” )8kali)ng the second consecutive month without ABU DHABI, United Arab Emi­ first since the conflict started in \ any business inflation, the Labor rates (UPI) — Iran is prepared to September 1980. Draartment said today. stop attacking oil tankers in the Foreign ministers of the GCC member states — Saudi Arabia, U P l p h o to The rare two-month interruption Persian Gulf if its adversary Iraq in the rise of the Producer Price also agrees not to target neutral, Kuwait, the United Arab Emi­ Just for dishes Index kept the business inflation non-military shipping, the official rates, Bahrain, Qatar and Oman — rate so far this year at 3.5 percent, Iranian news agency said today. Thursday issued a condemnation These one-piece plastic cup and saucer look-alikes being well below the 5 percent to 6 “ The world is tied to the Persian of attacks on Gulf shipping at the percent range widely forecast for Gulf, the world's economy is tied end of a two-day meeting in Tail, checked by Lucinda Wolkeare parts for a new dishwasher being a R o s s m n n 's Saudi Arabia. 1984. here. If chaos is caused here it manufactured at Whirlpool Corporation’s plant in Findlay, Ohio. finC^evnns p r o d u c t s com PRnv The index of wholesale prices would bring inflation. When infla­ At least 37 vessels, many of them The molded component is the lower section of the dishwasher's does not directly reflect consumer tion goes up it would spread to the oil tankers, have been hit in the soil separator accumulator. prices but shows how much or how whole world," Iranian Parliament Gulf by Iran and Iraq this year. little pressure business is under to speaker Hashemi Rafsanjani was The six Gulf nations produce about mark up retail price tags in the quoted as saying. 7.7 million barrels of oil a day, near future. “ We don’t want these things to more than 90 percent of their Food prices fell 1.2 percent at happen," the IRNA news agency national revenues. Airline’s woes stir wholesale, the biggest decline quoted him as saying. Iranian officials have singled out since July 1982. Beef prices Rafsanjani. considered Iran's Saudi Arabia and Kuwait as Iraq’s tumbled 7.8 percent, fresh vegeta­ second most important leader chief backers, but Tehran has Our ble prices fell 15 percent and pork, after Ayatollah Ruhollah Kho­ warned the six nations in the GCC bankruptcy debate poultry and eggs also were lower. meini, did not repeat references to that it would retaliate against all But fuel oil prices jumped 5.2 Herald photo by Pinto Iranian preparations for a new their ships. percent and gasoline costs for offensive against Iraq in the A Kuwaiti tanker was the last By Gall Collins contract struck with the nation's dealers were up 2 percent. The 3'/i-year-old Persian Gulf war. neutral vessel to be hit in a June 10 United Press International workers during the Depression, the Securing classmate Brian Rawding’s Hartford’s Cathedral of St. Joseph report mainly reflected April price On Thursday, the Gulf Coopera­ missile attack north of Qatar. cornerstone of which is the right to cap with a bobby pin is Sheila Maltese, Thursday night. More pictures and a list changes in the energy area. tion Council, an Arab military and Kuwait blamed Iran. NEW YORK — Bruce Simon and organize and bargain collectively. If food and fuel were excluded one of 329 East Catholic High School of graduates are on page 3. economic alliance, proposed that Harvey Miller have spent so much time Management, he told a group of Anniversary Rafsanjani said Iran welcomed the index would have been up 0.1 seniors who received their diplomas at the United Nations help prevent its debating each now begins his speech by a U.N. call for a halt to attacks on corporate attorneys, should think twice percent. ships from coming under attack. telling the audience what the other is before applauding the Bildisco non-military targets and Iran Prices of raw materials at the Diplomats in the Persian Gulf going to say. decision. "would not fire a single bullet in beginning of the supply pipeline, said the six-state council move to M iller’s law firiti, Weil Gotschal and “ Think through whether it's in the the Persian Gulf if Iraq stopped Manufacturer's List Prices especially sensitive to changes in seek U.N. help in protecting Manges, represents Continental Air­ interests of your relatively healthy East’s largest class ever attacks on oil tankers there," In Stock the economy, fell 0.9 percent in shipping in the waterway reflected lines, whose bankruptcy case has been clients (or the most marginal of their IR N A said. May, promising more moderation optimism over Secretary-General marked by bitter confrontations with competitors to be able to achieve, by A n d e r s e i i in prices in the months ahead.