Everite began in 1939 as the manufacturing division of family-owned Howell Door of Paoli, Pennsylvania. During the next forty years, Everite moved to Everett, Pennsylvania and grew to become one of the industry leaders in the manufacturing of wood garage doors. When the market moved to a less expensive steel product in the 80’s and 90’s, Everite elected to stick with the handcrafted wood products it knew best. In 1993, the Overhead Door Company (the industry’s largest garage door producer) ended production of wood garage doors and asked Everite to supply stile and rail wood door products to all of its dealers around the nation. Everite continued to supply Overhead and its dealers until 2010, when Overhead purchased Wayne Dalton. Read More