regional warehouses that provided one-day delivery to distributors. To better service fabricators and installers, Wilsonart opened its first metropolitan distribution center in Atlanta in 1970. The company opened several additional facilities via acquisition and new building – there are currently 19 markets with company-owned distribution. Manufacturing Wilsonart’s first manufacturing facility was built in Temple, Texas in 1956, directly across the street from its first customer, American Desk. A plant in Fletcher, North Carolina as added in 1979 to meet the increasing demand for product. In 1986, a new adhesive manufacturing and R&D facility, named “Temple North” opened in Temple, Texas. The original plant was renamed Temple South. In 2000, Wilsonart officially opened its first manufacturing facility in Shanghai, China, a 100,000-square-foot facility in the Qingpu District. Acquisitions In 1966, Dart Industries (formerly Rexall Drug) acquired RWP, and supported growth of its plastics business by purchasing a delivery fleet, fifty-eight thousand square feet of building space, and a fourth laminate press in its Temple plant. In 1966, Dart Industries added adhesives manufacturing to the company’s product portfolio with the purchase of Southern General Adhesives located in Denham Springs, Louisiana. In 1980, Dart Industries merged with Kraft Foods to become Dart and Kraft, Inc. In November, 1986, Dart and Kraft, Inc. split into Kraft, Inc. and spin-off Premark International, Inc. The spinoff included four businesses: Tupperware plastic food storage containers, Hobart and Vulcan-Hart commercial food equipment, West Bend appliances and exercise equipment and Wilsonart plastic laminates. In 1999, Premark was acquired by Illinois Tool Works, Inc. (ITW). Wilsonart purchased Suncraft Moldings in 1990 and introduced Custom Edges under the brand name Perma-Edge. In 2012, private equity investment firm Clayton, Dubilier & Rice (CD&R) acquired a majority ownership stake in Wilsonart, investing $395 million to form a new, independent enterprise operating as Wilsonart International Holdings, LLC. ITW retained an ongoing ownership stake. In 2013, Wilsonart acquired Taylor, Texas-based Durcon Incorporated, a manufacturer of laboratory-grade countertops and work surfaces worldwide. Durcon operates as an independent business unit of Wilsonart. The Wilson House This 3,000-square-foot model home was built by Ralph Wilson Sr., founder of Wilsonart in 1959 in Temple, Texas. Together with his daughter Bonnie McIninich, Wilson created the home to serve as an experimental showcase for Wilsonart (then Ralph Wilson Plastics). Experimental uses for laminate appeared throughout the home including kitchen and bath cabinets, shower stalls and walls, using laminates in place of