Whipping around moving carts filled with plastic-wrapped windows, Steven Chen, 43, last month trotted from one production line to the next at the Crystal Window & Door Systems factory in Flushing, Queens. He pointed out how a hydraulic machine combines the plastic frames and how gas is infused into the glass to make it energy efficient.
In the background, workers were busy hammering the frames to the windows, separating large pieces of glass into customized sizes and wrapping the finished windows in plastic to prepare them for shipping to construction sites across the nation.
Founded in 1990, Crystal Window & Door Systems is one of the largest minority-owned
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