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Exhibit 3.25
CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION
OF
DENVER WINDOW ACQUISITION CORPORATION
1. The name of the corporation is Denver Window Acquisition Corporation.
2. The address of its registered office in the State of Delaware is
Corporation Trust Center, 1209 Orange Street, in the City of Wilmington, County
of New Castle. The name of its registered agent at such address is The
Corporation Trust Company.
3. The purpose of the Corporation is to engage in any lawful act or
activity for which corporations may be organized under the General Corporation
Law of Delaware.
4. The total number of shares which the Corporation shall have authority
to issue is 1,000 shares of capital stock, and the par value of each such share
is $0.001 per share.
Cumulative voting is provided for by Section 214 of Title 8 of the
Delaware Code shall not apply to this Corporation.
Preemptive rights as provided for by Section 102(b)(3) of Title 8 of
the Delaware Code shall not be granted and are hereby expressly denied.
5. The name and mailing address of each incorporator is:
NAME MAILING ADDRESS
A. S. Gardner Corporation Trust Center
----------------- 1209 Orange Street
Wilmington, Delaware 19801
T. L. Ford Corporation Trust Center
----------------- 1209 Orange Street
Wilmington, Delaware 19801
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G. D. Cooper Corporate Trust Center
----------------- 1209 Orange Street
Wilmington, Delaware 19801
6. The name and mailing address of each person who is to serve as a
director until the first annual meeting of the stockholders or until a successor
is elected and qualified is:
NAME MAILING ADDRESS
Frank J. Amedia c/o American Architectural Products Corporation
South Bridge Executive Center
Building G-West
755 Boardman-Canfield Rd.
Boardman, OH 44512
The Board of Directors shall have sole authority to determine the
number of Directors serving on the Board, and may increase or decrease the exact
number of Directors from time to time by resolution duly adopted by such Board.
No decrease in the number of Directors shall have the effect of shortening the
term of any incumbent Director.
7. The Corporation shall have perpetual existence.
8. The Corporation shall be managed by the Board of Directors, which shall
exercise all powers conferred under the laws of the State of Delaware. The Board
of Directors shall have authority to make, alter or repeal the Bylaws of the
Corporation.
9. Elections of directors need not be by written ballot unless the Bylaws
of the Corporation shall so provide.
10. Meetings of stockholders may be held within or without the States of
Delaware as the Bylaws may provide. The books of the Corporation may be kept
(subject to any provision contained in the statutes) outside the State of
Delaware at such place or places as may be designated from time to time by the
Board of Directors or in the Bylaws of the Corporation.
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11. No director of the Corporation shall be personally liable to the
Corporation or its stockholders for monetary damages for breach of fiduciary
duty as a director; provided, however, that nothing contained herein shall
eliminate or limit the liability of a director of the Corporation to the extent
provided by applicable laws (i) for any breach of the director's duty of loyalty
to the Corporation or its stockholders, (ii) for acts or omissions not in good
faith or which involve intentional misconduct or knowing violation of law,
(iii) for authorizing the payment of a dividend or repurchase of stock, or
(iv) for any transaction from which the director derived an improper personal
benefit. The limitation of liability provided herein shall continue after a
director has ceased to occupy such position as to acts or omissions occurring
during such director's term or terms of office.
12. The Corporation reserves the right to amend, alter, change or repeal
any provisions contained to this Certificate of Incorporation, in the manner now
or hereafter prescribed by statute, and all rights conferred upon stockholders
herein are granted subject to this reservation.
The undersigned, being each of the incorporators hereinbefore named,
for the purpose of forming a corporation pursuant to the General Corporation Law
of the State of Delaware, do hereby declare and certify that this is our act and
deed and the facts herein stated are true, and accordingly have hereunto set our
hands this 19th day of March, 1998.
/s/ A. S. Gardner
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A. S. Gardner
/s/ T. L. Ford
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T. L. Ford
/s/ G. D. Cooper
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G. D. Cooper
INCORPORATORS
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