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6 Reasons You’ll Flip Over the Return of the Acrobat

by Jim Hoodlebrink | August 6, 2025 | Pro AV Integration, Screen Technology | 0 Comments

Sometimes an idea is so good it keeps coming back. That’s just what happened with the Draper Acrobat – a utility lineset used to suspend AV products including projection screens from the ceiling. A couple of years ago we decided to phase it out and concentrate on...

Draper Gym Solutions on Show in Athletic Business Architectural Showcase

by Neal Turner | July 30, 2025 | Gym Equipment | 0 Comments

One of the highlights of each year for our gym equipment group is seeing the fruits of our labor in the annual Athletic Business Architectural Showcase. While we don’t get to see the final outcome of the vast majority of our gym equipment projects, it’s enjoyable and...

Power Up Your Shade Sales Game

by Terry Coffey | July 21, 2025 | Draper At Home, Solar Control & Window Shades | 12 Comments

This week we’re powering up your competitive advantage with a special week launching more tools to help you get more sales! This special “Power Up” week features exciting, next-level window shade upgrades to some of our most popular motorized shade models, including...

New Draper-Designed Chain Tensioner for Clutch Shades

by Terry Coffey | July 16, 2025 | Architecture/Green Building, Draper At Home, Solar Control & Window Shades | 0 Comments

Part of our overall Strategy as a company is to keep finding ways to get better: “We draw from deep expertise to continuously improve and hold ourselves to a standard of excellence.” An excellent example of that strategy hits the streets in the next few days in the...

Dream Big, Build Bigger!

by Terry Coffey | July 9, 2025 | Audiovisual Mounts & Structures, Draper Updates, Pro AV Integration | 0 Comments

That’s the message we took to InfoComm 2025 in Orlando and based on feedback from the show that message was delivered loud and clear! In order to focus attention on AV Mounts and Structures, this was the first time our InfoComm booth did not include projection...

Why Don’t All Folding Basketball Backstops Include Safety Straps?

by Neal Turner | Nov 15, 2011 | Architecture/Green Building, Gym Equipment

You can’t buy a car without seat belts to protect occupants in case of an accident, so why can you get folding backstops without safety straps to protect against winch or cable failure? The quick answer is the lack of regulatory bodies to mandate this feature for...

GreenScreen Revive: Now Cradle to Cradle Certified

by Jeff Miller | Nov 11, 2011 | Architecture/Green Building, Solar Control & Window Shades

Our newest solar control fabric, GreenScreen Revive, has received Cradle to Cradle Silver Certification from MBDC. It's recycled, recyclable, and PVC-free. Here are several links where you can learn more about it. Webinar: We'll have a live webinar about our PVC-free...

Henry County, Indiana – Basketball Mecca

by John Pidgeon | Nov 1, 2011 | From the President's Desk, Gym Equipment

Henry County, Indiana, where Draper is located, boasts a rich basketball heritage. Two former NBA players, Kent Benson and Steve Alford, played their high school basketball at New Castle High School. Kent spent eleven seasons in the NBA with the Milwaukee Bucks,...

AV Week Activities a huge success

by Amy Madden | Oct 28, 2011 | Draper Updates, Home Theatre, Pro AV Integration, Screen Technology

We successfully completed our first AV Week events last Friday. I personally served as a judge for Ball State University’s annual sales competition. With over forty young adults competing, I got to witness the future of the sales professional…and I was blown away! ...

Draper Goes Pink for Breast Cancer Awareness

by John Pidgeon | Oct 27, 2011 | From the President's Desk

We had a colorful week at Draper last week in observance of Breast Cancer Awareness Week and Month. Eleanor Painter, Linda Brinson, and several other employees volunteered to coordinate a number of activities throughout the office and factory work areas. I have...

Do you need a tensioned screen?

by Amy Madden | Oct 27, 2011 | Home Theatre, Pro AV Integration, Screen Technology

Tensioned screens have an aura of mystery that surrounds them. They are the most expensive models on the market and they have a very distinctive look. So do you truly need one? Unfortunately the answer is not cut and dried. It all depends. I can hear you sighing...

Return to Steady History for Buffaloes

by Neal Turner | Oct 21, 2011 | From the Field, Gym Equipment

Draper recently had the opportunity to work with a local dealer to assist the University of Colorado’s Coors Events Center with “updating” their basketball backstops. This 11,000 seat arena was opened in 1979 and is the home of the Buffalo’s basketball and volleyball...

Barbeque Heaven

by John Pidgeon | Oct 19, 2011 | From the President's Desk

Two Draper employees share an unusual avocation - competitive barbequing. Debbie Searcy wears two important hats at Draper - Credit Manager and Traffic Manager. She and her husband Doug have been barbequing competitively for three years as the Hoosier Crawdaddies....

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