About Us

In the March of 1998, Wes Fraser founded 21st Century Screens and started business as the only Phantom Screens distributor for Southeast Florida out of a one-car garage on a rented property.

In September 1998, Jorge Paulino joined the company as Assistant Operations Manager, marking the start of a great business relationship and friendship. Phantom’s Retractable Screen was a unique new product to South Florida and the business grew fast, so fast that the company moved to their first industrial building in November of that same year. 21st Century Screens became Phantom’s fastest growing distributor and the most successful retractable screen company in the southeastern United States

In 1999, we added a line of motorized screens created by a craftsman in Orlando, Florida. This product was so unique and successful that Phantom, MFG purchased his company and took Phantom Executive Motorized Screens to the international market – quickly becoming the largest motorized screens supplier in the world. That same year, Paulino Brothers, Inc., was launched as the Phantom Dealer for Broward, Dade and Monroe counties. Jorge Paulino was the sole operator for the company: selling, installing, and servicing all the Phantom products in the three counties. With a passion to provide great service and confident that his clients were acquiring the best retractable screen products in the market, Paulino Brothers set the bar in sales for all subsequent Dealers.

In August 2008, Jorge Paulino returned to 21st Century as General Manager and two years later Paulino Brothers Inc., DBA, American Screen Solutions purchased the Distributorship for Southeast Florida. Currently, we are the sole Phantom Distributor for Monroe, Miami- Dade, Broward, Palm Beach, Martin, St. Lucie, Highlands, Okeechobee, Indian River, Brevard and Volusia counties. Roughly 50% of the population of Florida lives in our Distributorship area.

In 2012, we added a line of retractable awnings to our product offering; in 2013, we became a Dealer of Nautilus Hurricane shutters, the world’s most compact rolling shutter system, along with the full line of the prestigious and internationally known brand of interior shades, Bandalux.