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Legal blows traded over preservative
ST. PAUL, MINN. - A sevenyear legal bout between Marvin Windows and Doors and PPG Industries over an allegedly defective wood treatment is being hashed out before a jury in a federal trial that began in late October in U.S. District Court in St. Paul, Minn.
The Warroad, Minn.based window-and-door maker sued Pittsburgh-based PPG in 1994, charging that a proprietary wood preservative that the paint-- and-coatings manufacturer made for Marvin failed to prevent premature rotting of doors and windows. Marvin used the preservative, called PILT (preservative in line treatment), on products sold in the mid- to late-1980s.
In court documents Marvin said that by the early 1990s it was receiving "numerous" complaints from customers claiming that...