Quality hardware for windows, doors and skylights since 1987. Rely on FFI FFI provides architectural hardware solutions for manufacturers and fabricators, showrooms and resellers – as well as solutions and referrals for architects. Our hardware is for doors, windows and skylights, and residential and commercial projects. FFI is also happy to help contractors and homeowners with referrals to dealers and manufacturers who can provide hardware and/or doors, windows and skylights for your projects. Excellent service...every time Rely on FFI for excellence in service, product information, technical support, inventory planning, and follow-up.

Available inventory & constant improvement
To best serve the window, door and skylight industry, FFI continually invests in infrastructure, training and team growth. Our inventory is planned for a 3-month continuous inventory supply of core products, quotes and orders are processed promptly, and in-stock products ship within 24 to 72 hours. Inventory Consignment Agreement Plans are available for our manufacturing clients.

FFI is an independent American company with an in-house product development team and partnerships worldwide. This means FFI is able to provide a more complete range of hardware and components and bring new solutions to market more quickly than factory-owned hardware providers.

FFI Design
FFI Design provides product innovations available nowhere else. FFI design products are developed by the FFI product development team to meet current market needs, and then are contract-manufactured exclusively for and sold only by FFI. FFI design products include:

• FFI stainless steel lift slide system

• FFI LS100, LS200 and LS300 decorative handles and pulls

• FFI re-keyable profile cylinders

• FASTrack system for multiple sliding doors

• FFI sliding door panel interlock

• And more

Wide range of products
As experts in quality architectural hardware, FFI sources and represents top manufacturers from around the world. Each product and manufacturer is critically evaluated for quality of design, production and materials, as well as applicability to American market trends. FFI represented products include:

• UCS motors for windows and skylights

• AGB European hardware for doors and windows

• Tiger top-hung sliding door hardware

• And more is available - just tell FFI what you need

 

FFI insists on superior materials - so should you

	Best available grades of stainless steel for higher corrosion resistance
	Durable class I anodized and Kynar aluminum finishes for superior durability
	Solid brass hardware in oil-rubbed bronze, mat nickel, and more

FFI customer service is ready to help with:

	Product information - phone support and pdf files by email
	Technical support - CAD drawings, installation guides
	Calculators - to easily create parts lists
	Showroom visits by appointment
	Referrals to sources for our hardware and/or doors, windows and skylights
	Price quotes
	Order processing
	For qualified accounts, purchases by credit line or credit card

FFI company history

1972	FFI President, Robert Renner, starts a business in antiques and architectural hardware in Cincinnati, Ohio.
1987	Mr. Renner founds a new company in Los Angeles, Architectural Art, featuring quality wholesale hardware, and becomes the Western Distributor for Truth Hardware.
1990	The growing company serves high-end custom window and door projects as well as the replacement hardware market, and moves to a larger facility in El Segundo, California.
1992	More hardware lines are added, including European G-U Hardware (G-U discontinued by 1997). International research and sourcing to introduce innovative products to the American market becomes a company hallmark.
1995	Outside sales efforts are expanded across the United States to promote lift slide and other progressive products.
1997	At 10th Anniversary, the company name is changed from Architectural Art to Functional Fenestration Inc., and FFI moves to a larger facility in Hawthorne, California (close to LAX airport).
1998	Italian product lines for lift slide, multipoint locks, and tilt turn hardware are added: AGB, Olivari, Zuani tooling and more. FFI begins advertising in Fenestration Magazine and Window & Door Magazine.
2000	FFI implements in-house Marketing and Technical Departments to better to serve clients. Olivari handles are featured in Custom Home Magazine and other publications.
2001	FFI adds more innovative products: Tiger stainless steel sliding door hardware, and motorized actuators for commercial capacity windows and skylights from Ultraflex Control Systems (UCS). Also, extruded brass cladding and brass lift slide track are introduced – brass tracks fills a market need for more corrosion-resistant track for heavy sliding doors installed in concrete.
2002	Continuing our reputation for innovation, FFI adds Alspec and Centor exterior folding door systems from Australia (discontinued in 2005). FFI product development team is instrumental in Eclipse E4 system and oil-rubbed bronze finish being added to the product line.
2003	FFI adds a Western Territory Sales office in Idaho.
2004	Continuing on from successful trade show exhibitions at GlassBuild, NAHB, PCBC, BIS, and Win-Door, FFI exhibits at the 2004 national architect convention, AIA Expo in Chicago, Illinois.
2005	FFI celebrates 5 straight years of double-digit annual sales growth. Remote offices are opened in Utah for the FFI Technical department and in Italy for the FFI Purchasing department.
2006	FFI begins implementation of Kaizen Constant Improvement program. FFI Product Development Team launches new lift slide products: stainless steel lift-slide carriages and locks, lift-slide handles, pulls and more.
2007	Functional Fenestration 20th anniversary, 1987 - 2007
2008	FFI upgraded to P21 software system for improved quote and order processing, inventory management, and accounting. New FFI 2009 binder catalogs were published in December 2008.

You can learn more about FFI company history on our FFI News page, and

about FFI products in our Product Catalog.