Archived Milestones

The original site maintained a company news section during its growth years, billing itself as news from "the world leader in white foam glass technology." The press pages themselves are largely lost, but the headlines and their context survive. We preserve them here as a snapshot of a green manufacturer scaling up in the early 2000s.

New Mexico Facility

The company's first major expansion announcement covered a new production facility in New Mexico. Demand for foamed-glass blocks had outgrown the original operation, and the new plant let production run around the clock. Locating in-state kept the business close to its environmental roots - the whole venture, after all, existed to protect New Mexico's pumice mountains.

A Second Facility, and State Support

A follow-up release announced further capacity, and a third - the most notable of the era - reported that New Mexico's governor had publicly backed the company, praising the operation for proving that environmental innovation and manufacturing jobs could grow together. State support of green manufacturing was far less common then than it is now, which made the endorsement genuinely newsworthy.

Research & Development in Las Cruces

The company opened a dedicated research and development center in Las Cruces, in partnership with the region's strong materials-science community. The R&D center worked on tuning foamed-glass cell structure for new applications - the coarse-to-fine product range described in our product guide traces directly to that work.

The Grilling Research Series

Three of the archived headlines were consumer-education releases rather than corporate news: Brushes by Competition (comparing block cleaning against wire grill brushes), Tools and Techniques for Barbecuing and Grilling, and Facts and Figures about Outdoor Grilling in America. They reflected a simple insight: the company's best marketing was teaching people to grill well. Industry groups such as the Hearth, Patio & Barbecue Association were reporting explosive growth in outdoor cooking, and the company built its much-loved grilling resource center on that wave - the same library restored on this site today.

Epilogue

The milestone arc ended the way successful product stories often do: the brand was acquired in 2020 by a national consumer-products group, and the blocks remain on shelves today. The full arc is told on our history page.