Winters in Traverse City, Mich., can be brutal, and Westwind Construction, a Grand Haven-based owner developer, contractor and operator, knew its proposed four-story apartment building would need a durable and sustainable exterior.

More than 150 national constitutions around the world guarantee an individual’s right to privacy. Yet all it takes is one “Peeping Tom” incident to crush a person’s feeling of solitude and security.

From privacy panels to windows to interior shutters, during the past 30 years Hy-Lite has manufactured hundreds of thousands of acrylic block products. Since 1988 the company has solved design and privacy issues for architects, builders and homeowners by crafting 

For the past 30 years Hy-Lite has been making thousands of acrylic block windows -- one block at a time. The Florida-based operation manufactures approximately 500,000 acrylic blocks each year to include in their privacy windows.

DAP- Extreme Stretch is a new urethanized acrylic sealant that combines the flexibility, adhesion strength and durability of polyurethane with the ease of clean up and paint properties of an acrylic latex.