▲ Paul Wellborn , President & CEO
sat down with us to talk about American manufacturing , quality cabinetry , and a $ 4.5 billion trade case against China that took him all the way to Washington , D . C . and into an audience with the President . “ Over the years , many family-owned cabinet companies in the US have merged together ,” he begins . “ We never did . In fact , we are the largest privately-owned cabinet manufacturer in the country , and it is a true family business . All of the family works here . I have five children , and all of them are part of the company and some of my grandchildren are , too !”
1986 , Paul Wellborn , who still serves as President & CEO , became the sole owner . What followed was consistent growth and expansion year-overyear . The company ’ s customer base shifted to residential kitchen and bath dealers , and that move has since paid dividends .
Today , Wellborn offers six core product lines and manufactures its kitchen and bath cabinets from start to finish in its own 2,000,000-squarefoot facility in Ashland , Alabama . Recently , Paul
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A tight-knit community of workers under one giant roof ensures that Wellborn Cabinet , Inc manufactures some of the best cabinetry in the country , promoting a quality of craftmanship with which the company – and the family name itself – has become synonymous .
The Wellborn family , and many of the families working within the company , take immense pride in producing highquality cabinets in the US , hand-crafting every product in Alabama . “ If you do research , as we do , on products by our competitors , then you will generally find that the quality of some imports is not as
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