Your opening.
Your elevation.
The number that wins.
Core is the answer when the number decides the job — without giving up the window.
It is not a lesser window. The same thermally broken aluminum, the same all-tempered glazing, the same double-silver Low-E and the same build discipline as the rest of the line. The specification is chosen with the budget in the room, which is a very different thing from cutting corners.
What does not change is the service. Core is made to your openings exactly like every other ARI product — 5, 6 or 8 mm tempered glass in every pane, sized to the lite, a polyamide thermal break, CMECH multipoint hardware and an AAMA 2604 architectural finish, built at a partner plant with our own people on the floor.
What we build in Core.
Every product below is made to your openings. Maximum sizes are reference sizes — larger sizes on request, confirmed case by case. In sliding configurations X is a panel that slides and O is a panel that is fixed, read left to right viewed from the exterior.
Garage doors are a separate ARI category. Pivot doors and curtain wall are built in Core at Core’s specification; Select and Reserve carry the heavier profiles and the wider glazing options.
Made to your openings.
Not to a catalog.
Send the schedule and we build to it. Every unit is made to the dimension on your drawing, whatever that dimension is.
That is unusual at this end of the market. A value line is normally a value line precisely because it is built in fixed sizes — the plant runs a short list of parts, the builder designs around them, and anything outside the list either carries a premium or does not get made at all. Core does not work that way, which is why it wins bids a catalog line cannot.
Core is finished in Matte Black, White or Dark Bronze. AkzoNobel Interpon powder coat to AAMA 2604, one color inside and out as standard. Custom colors, AAMA 2605 and dual-color frames — one color inside, a different one outside — are available at additional charge. Thresholds are finished to match the frame.
Double casements and double doors are supplied with or without a center post. The default is no post, for an unobstructed opening, unless the drawing asks for one.
Configurations above are the common ones, not a catalog. Any of them can be mulled into a larger assembly and every one is built to your dimensions. If you can draw the opening, we will quote it.
How a Core window is built.
| Component | Specification |
|---|---|
| Frame | 6063-T5 aluminum, thermally broken. Core profile system. |
| Thermal break | Polyamide strut, isolating the interior face of the frame from the exterior. |
| Glass | 5, 6 or 8 mm double glazed, thickness set by the glass area. Every pane tempered. Double-silver Low-E, argon filled. |
| Hardware | CMECH multipoint locking on casements and doors. Adjustable hinges on windows and doors. |
| Screens | Retractable screens on casement, awning and sliding windows, and on sliding doors. |
| Finish | AkzoNobel Interpon powder coat to AAMA 2604. Matte Black, White or Dark Bronze. Custom colors, AAMA 2605 and dual-color frames at additional charge. |
| Glazing | Every lite tempered, in every product, not only where code requires it. Safety etch on every pane. |
| Structural | Design pressure to be confirmed, by product and size. |
The numbers a builder needs.
| Product | mm | in |
|---|---|---|
| Single glass lite | 10 m² | 107.6 sq ft |
| Fixed window | Engineered per unit | |
| Casement sash | 850 × 1800 | 33 3/8 × 70 3/4 |
| Awning sash | 850 × 1800 | 33 3/8 × 70 3/4 |
| Sliding window panel | 1400 × 3048 | 55 × 120 |
| Sliding door panel | 1400 × 3048 | 55 × 120 |
| Swing / entry door | 1000 × 2800 | 39 1/4 × 110 1/8 |
| Product | U-factor | SHGC | VT |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fixed window | 0.38 | 0.25 | 0.57 |
| Casement window | 0.37 | 0.23 | 0.55 |
| Awning window | 0.37 | 0.23 | 0.55 |
| Sliding window | 0.40 | 0.22 | 0.59 |
| Window wall | 0.38 | 0.25 | 0.57 |
| Sliding door | 0.40 | 0.22 | 0.59 |
| Multi-slide door | 0.38 | 0.22 | 0.51 |
| Swing door | 0.39 | 0.23 | 0.55 |
| Entry pivot door | 0.40 | 0.24 | 0.51 |
| Product | Narrowest | Shortest |
|---|---|---|
| Casement sash | 33 1/2 × 35 | — |
| Slider, 2-panel | 46 1/2 × 45 1/4 | 75 × 28 1/4 |
| Slider, 3-track | 35 × 45 1/4 | 56 1/4 × 28 1/4 |
What Core is covered for.
| Coverage | Core |
|---|---|
| Frame & welds | 10 years |
| Insulating glass seal | 10 years |
| Finish — AAMA 2604 powder coat | 10 years |
| Hardware mechanism & screens | 3 years |
Coastal salt corrosion is not covered on Core — specify Select or Reserve for coastal work. The hardware term covers locks, handles, hinges, rollers, operators and screen mechanisms. Full terms, exclusions and the claim procedure are set out in the ARI Materials Limited Warranty, supplied with every order and available on request.
A thermally broken aluminum window asks very little, but it does ask for something. These six keep the finish, the hardware and the seals inside their warranty terms.
From quote to container.
An ARI order runs on four steps. What differs from buying locally is not the paperwork — it is how much of the job you can see, from the day the extrusion starts to the photographs of your own crates taken before the container doors close.
The tracking system behind steps three and four. Every order gets its own view: where the frames and the glass are, what stage each is at, which container they are loaded into and when it lands.
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