What Standard Industries does

Standard Industries is a privately-held global industrial company controlled by the Winter and Millstone families, headquartered in New York City and operating across approximately 50 countries with more than 20,000 employees and roughly $11 billion in annual revenue. The company runs a diversified platform organized into four segments: Standard Building Solutions, Standard Performance Materials, Standard Investments, and Winter Properties. Standard Building Solutions is anchored by GAF (North America's largest roofing and waterproofing manufacturer), BMI Group (Europe's largest manufacturer in the combined pitched and flat roofing market), GAF Energy (the world's largest solar roofing producer, including the Timberline Solar shingle line), and Schiedel, Siplast, SGI, and Standard Logistics. Standard Performance Materials operates through W. R. Grace & Co., a global supplier of specialty chemicals, catalysts, engineered materials, and fine chemicals serving pharmaceutical and industrial customers in more than 100 countries. Winter Properties is a vertically integrated real estate investment and development business with over a century of New York City history, and Standard Investments deploys capital across public equities and venture-stage industrial and technology companies.

The company's core technology stack spans physical building products (nailable solar shingles, roofing membranes, waterproofing systems, chimney and ventilation products), specialty chemicals (catalysts, engineered materials, fine chemicals and CDMO services), logistics automation (Optimal Dynamics decision intelligence), and applied AI (a $1 million AI Challenge culminated in a 2025 partnership with Molecule.one to bring AI-assisted molecular synthesis into Grace's contract development operations). Manufacturing is anchored by US-based GAF Energy facilities in Georgetown, TX and San Jose, CA for Timberline Solar, and the Molecule.one laboratory in Warsaw, Poland. The portfolio reflects a deliberate buildout of AI-adjacent capabilities, particularly through venture investments in AI-driven industrial technology.

Standard Industries' revenue model is primarily a B2B and B2C hardware sales engine across its operating subsidiaries, complemented by capital-allocation returns through Standard Investments and real estate returns through Winter Properties. Pricing is not publicly disclosed. Go-to-market is sales-led and channel-diversified: GAF and GAF Energy distribute through national certified contractor and installer networks; Grace runs direct enterprise sales to pharmaceutical and industrial customers; Standard Logistics provides internal and external supply chain services; and Winter Properties conducts direct real estate investment and development in major US urban markets, principally New York City.

Name

Standard Industries

Legal name

Standard Building Solutions Inc. (f/k/a Standard Industries Inc.)

Website

https://standardindustries.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1920

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

5,001–10,000 employees

Short description

Standard Industries is a privately-held global industrial holding company operating across building solutions (GAF, BMI, GAF Energy), specialty chemicals (W. R. Grace), venture and public-equity investing (Standard Investments), and real estate (Winter Properties), serving construction, pharmaceutical, and industrial customers in 50+ countries.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

New York

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices6 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Hardware or Manufacturing

Cost components

Supply Chain, Operations, Personnel, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Standard Building Solutions: Building solutions segment including roofing, waterproofing, and solar products. Includes GAF (largest roofing and waterproofing manufacturer in North America), BMI (largest manufacturer in combined pitched and flat roofing market in Europe), Schiedel, SGI, Siplast, and Standard Logistics.
2. Standard Performance Materials: Specialty chemicals segment through W. R. Grace & Co., including catalysts, engineered materials, and fine chemicals serving pharmaceutical, materials science, and industrial customers.
3. Standard Investments: Investment platform deploying capital across public equities, venture capital, and real estate. Focused on intersection of industry and technology.
4. Winter Properties: Vertically integrated real estate investment, management and development company with over 100-year history in New York City, targeting strategic investments in major U.S. urban markets.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

Standard Industries is a privately-held global industrial company operating across four segments: Standard Building Solutions (roofing, waterproofing, and solar roofing products through GAF, GAF Energy, BMI, Schiedel, SGI, Siplast), Standard Performance Materials (specialty chemicals, catalysts, engineered materials and fine chemicals through W. R. Grace & Co.), Standard Investments (public equities and venture capital), and Winter Properties (real estate investment and development). It manufactures and sells physical building envelope products, industrial chemicals, and operates investment and real estate businesses.

Product overview

Standard Industries is a privately-held global industrial company operating a diversified portfolio of businesses. The company operates under a platform-plus-businesses model consisting of four main segments: Standard Building Solutions (comprising GAF, GAF Energy, BMI, Schiedel, SGI, and Siplast for roofing/waterproofing and Standard Logistics), Standard Performance Materials (W. R. Grace & Co. for specialty chemicals), Standard Investments (public equities and venture capital), and Winter Properties (real estate). The portfolio generates approximately $11 billion in annual revenue across 50+ countries with over 20,000 employees.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• GAF: North America's largest roofing and waterproofing manufacturer and world's largest solar roofing producer
• GAF Energy
• BMI Group
• W. R. Grace & Co. (Grace)
• Standard Investments
• Winter Properties
• Standard Logistics
• Schiedel
• SGI (Specialty Granules)
• Siplast

Products and services

• GAF Roofing and Waterproofing Products
• GAF Energy Timberline Solar ES 2
• BMI Group Roofing Systems
• W. R. Grace Specialty Chemicals
• Standard Logistics Services
• Standard Investments — Public Equities
• Standard Investments — Venture Capital
• Winter Properties Real Estate

Named customers2 records

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

AI capability4 records

Feature2 records

Partnerships

Two partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• Molecule.onecoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 12 June 2025Molecule.one, a Polish biotech company, won Standard Industries' $1 Million AI Challenge for its AI-assisted molecular synthesis platform. The partnership involves potential strategic collaboration with W. R. Grace & Co. to leverage the AI technology in Grace's Contract Development and Manufacturing Organization (CDMO) operations to accelerate development of complex pharmaceutical molecules.
• Team RubiconminorOthers · 2 May 2019Team Rubicon is a longstanding partner of Standard Industries and GAF. The partnership involves shared mission to protect and serve communities through disaster relief efforts, with Team Rubicon utilizing innovative technology to deliver disaster relief more effectively.

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Direct peers

• Carlisle Companies: Carlisle Construction Materials is one of the largest U.S. commercial roofing and waterproofing manufacturers, with single-ply EPDM, TPO, and PVC membranes directly competitive with Siplast and BMI. Carlisle's Construction Materials segment is a focused peer for Standard Building Solutions' commercial roofing business.
• IKO Industries: IKO is a global roofing, waterproofing, and insulation manufacturer with significant North American asphalt shingle production competing directly with GAF. It is a focused private peer in residential and commercial roofing.
• Albemarle Corporation: Albemarle is a global specialty chemicals company serving pharmaceutical, materials science, and industrial customers with catalysts, bromine, and lithium products, comparable to W. R. Grace's Catalyst Technologies business. It is a public peer for Grace's specialty chemical operations.
• Owens Corning: Owens Corning is a building materials manufacturer with a leading roofing shingles business (Duration, Oakridge) and significant insulation and composites operations. It is the closest direct peer to GAF in North American residential roofing, competing head-to-head in asphalt shingles, and also overlaps with Siplast and SGI in commercial roofing membranes.
• Element Solutions: Element Solutions is a specialty chemicals company providing industrial, electronic, and automotive chemicals, comparable to W. R. Grace's Materials Technologies and Catalyst Technologies segments. It is a focused peer in the specialty industrial chemicals space served by Grace.

Regional players

• Boral Limited: Boral is an Australia-based building materials and construction products company with significant roofing, masonry, and concrete operations across Asia-Pacific. It is comparable to GAF and BMI in roofing and competes regionally in markets where Standard Building Solutions has limited presence.

Broad incumbents

• Holcim: Holcim is a Swiss global leader in building materials and aggregates with roofing and building envelope solutions across Europe and North America. It is a broad incumbent peer with significant overlap to BMI in Europe and to the overall building solutions portfolio.
• Berkshire Hathaway (Johns Manville): Johns Manville, owned by Berkshire Hathaway, is a leading manufacturer of insulation, commercial roofing membranes, and engineered products, directly comparable to GAF, BMI, and Siplast. As a Berkshire subsidiary it operates with similar long-term, decentralized industrial conglomerate characteristics as Standard Industries.
• Saint-Gobain: Saint-Gobain is a French global building materials conglomerate whose CertainTeed subsidiary is a major North American roofing manufacturer and which competes across roofing, insulation, and building envelope solutions. It is a broad incumbent competitor to GAF, BMI, Schiedel, and Siplast across both residential and commercial construction.

Emerging players

• Tesla: Tesla Solar Roof is a direct competitor to GAF Energy's Timberline Solar in the residential building-integrated photovoltaics category. Tesla brings manufacturing scale, vertical integration with Powerwall, and brand recognition, making it the most prominent emerging threat to GAF Energy's first-mover position.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat6 records

Key risks1 record

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles14 records

Subsidiaries10 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A3 records

Investments10 records

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