A Gilbert manufacturing company is giving previously incarcerated men and women a chance to better their lives as they reenter society.

Awake Window and Door Company was co-founded in 2020 by Scott and Maria Gates, John Engelstad, and Andrew Darr and produces state-of-the-art door and window products, aiming to create “innovative solutions to complex problems.”

It explains on its website, “Whether we are engineering door panels that can be built 16’ wide x 16’ tall, reducing sightlines to only 3/4’ wide, cutting lead times, simplifying installation and manufacturing processes to improve quality, or creating automated shop drawing solutions,

“Awake is fully committed to rejecting the complacency that is often found in our industry. Just because a problem is hard to solve, doesn’t mean it

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