Jan
28

Buxton Cellar Media Room Awarded Best Home Cinema

Buxton Cellar Cinema Room

Neil Mattock, a regional manager for Draper Group Ltd in the UK recently reported that one of the projects he consulted on has been awarded “Best Home Cinema ” by ET Home Cinema in their 2012 Essential Install Home Trade Awards. Neil said, “Colin Scott of ET Home Cinema asked me to advise on this…
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Oct
24

AV Week Activities Wrap Up at Draper

Graphic Design students see practical application of work

Another successful AV Week has passed at Draper–this year with a bit more fanfare. We invited over 100 of our local vocational students to visit us in Spiceland, IN. We had pre-engineering, graphic design, computer operations, and marketing students. Break-out sessions were led by Draper employees with experience in these fields. Roy Smith, Senior CAD…
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Oct
02

AV Week Activities 2012

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It’s time for AV Week again, and we’re doing things a bit differently this year. In 2011, we sent a group of Draper employees to meet with different classes from our local vocational school. This year, they are coming to us, the Mecca of projection screens. For those of you that have visited Draper before,…
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Sep
26

EcoMatt – the First Cradle to Cradle Certified Projection Surface

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We are proud to introduce the industry’s first Cradle to Cradle CertifiedCM Silver projection screen surface – Ecomatt XT700E. So what does that mean? I’m not what I would consider a “tree hugger,” but I do believe we have responsibility to the world that we leave to our children, and I really love this explanation.…
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Sep
05

Five Reasons to Love the Onyx More

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When Draper’s Onyx Permanently Tensioned Screen frame was introduced in 2003, our customers loved the easy way it was assembled, the clean beveled look and the very reasonable price. It was one of the most successful product launches we’ve had. Nine years later, it is still our best selling fixed wall screen, and it is…
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Sep
04

Getting to the Moon…

Buzz Aldrin on the moon in 1969

Recent trends in the Custom Install industry have some manufacturers eliminating their independent manufacturer’s representatives. Unlike these manufacturers, Draper is a supporter of using manufacturer representatives. They provide our customers with important information about products, help in training and trouble shooting, and are our eyes and ears in the field. A good rep has both the integrator’s…
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Aug
31

#CEDIA12: Be Careful What You Ask For

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One of the great things about working at Draper is the creative minds we have in our advertising department. Most people don’t know that Draper does not use an outside PR firm; all our product brochures, advertising, press releases, social media and even video production are created in-house by an extremely talented group of people.…
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Aug
20

New Castle Little League at World Series

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There has been a lot of press state-wide and national about the Cinderella team of the 2012 Little League World Series, the New Castle All-Stars, representing the Great Lakes region. On a beautiful Friday summer night, an estimated 1,500-2,000 supporters from the community joined together to watch a baseball game. It was a great atmosphere…
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Aug
16

World Series Bound

Bryce Huntley #2 and Niah Williamson #9 pose in their new uniforms

New Castle, Indiana is like so many other small towns. It is not quite as obscure as Spiceland (population 800), where Draper is located, but it’s not exactly well known either. For all of you sports fans out there though, our 11-12 year old Little League Baseball team changed that last Friday. For the first…
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Aug
14

Celebrating our summer intern, Samantha

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Every year Draper mines the employee pool for children and grandchildren looking for temporary, summer employment. We had 21 hires this summer, and our department, Audio Visual Sales, had the pleasure of working with Samantha Smith. Samantha just graduated from high school and will be starting college later this month. Her plan is to attend…
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