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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...

Branching Out, Remaining Rooted: An American Manufacturing Story

by Terry Coffey | July 2, 2025 | Draper Updates | 0 Comments

It’s an American manufacturing story that begins with one man’s vision, a small local business, and a bicycle. Through the years, that vision grew and thrived, and the story developed into a multi-faceted tale of success and values held in the face of changing times....

Bond Bridge Pro Brings App Control to Draper, Draper At Home Shades

by Terry Coffey | June 25, 2025 | Architecture/Green Building, Smart Home, Solar Control & Window Shades | 0 Comments

Now you can enjoy the complete smart control experience thanks to our new partnership with Bond – and yes, there’s an app for that! We are partnering with controls company Bond to integrate motorized window shades into home control/automation systems through the Bond...

Memorial Day: Remember and Honor

by Terry Coffey | May 30, 2022 | Draper Updates

Draper is closed today in observance of the Memorial Day...

What’s New in Window Shades?

by Terry Coffey | May 25, 2022 | Draper Updates, Pro AV Integration, Rental & Staging, Solar Control & Window Shades

Innovation. Growth. Creativity. Even after 120 years, these continue to be extremely important to Draper. We’re only halfway through the first quarter of 2022 but it has already been a busy year in each of these areas! We’ve already shared the good news about the new...

Did You Know? New Dual Roller Headboxes

by Terry Coffey | May 23, 2022 | Did You Know?, Residential Technology, Solar Control & Window Shades

Dual roller shades are growing in popularity because you don’t have to choose between light filtering and room darkening fabrics. You can have both in the same window! Did you know Draper® has added some new headbox options to our Dual Roller FlexShade® window shades?...

A New Angle to Draper Coupled Shades

by Terry Coffey | May 18, 2022 | Architecture/Green Building, Residential Technology, Solar Control & Window Shades

Coupled window shades can make motorized operation less expensive and simpler. With a coupled unit, a single motor can drive up to five shade panels. While this is fairly simple on flat facades, coupling shades across angled glazing presents some additional...

Did You Know? 120 Years, Part 2!

by Terry Coffey | May 16, 2022 | Did You Know?, Draper Updates

This year Draper celebrates our 120th birthday! Did you know we are still family owned and managed? Perhaps this stability is one reason why innovation has been second nature since the very beginning. We already shared some high points from our first 100 years here....

Your Home’s Window Shade Performance: Interior vs. Exterior

by Terry Coffey | May 11, 2022 | Draper At Home, Outdoor Living, Solar Control & Window Shades

In addition to creating comfortable outdoor spaces, exterior shades like the Draper At Home FlexShade® ZIP can be used as a solar control device over windows. It works much like interior shades but locating it on the outside of the window creates some definite...

Draper® StageScreen®—Still on the Road

by Terry Coffey | May 4, 2022 | Pro AV Integration, Rental & Staging, Screen Technology

As the event industry recovers from pandemic shutdowns, a major cost for rental and staging companies is having the necessary inventory to keep up with the variety of events. However, keeping a large inventory of different portable projection screen sizes can be an...

Did You Know? Draper is Celebrating 120 Years of Innovation!

by Terry Coffey | May 2, 2022 | Did You Know?, Draper Updates

2022 marks our 120th year! But did you know surviving as a business since 1902 is not as impressive as how we did it - and what that means to you! After over a century of thriving, growing, and innovating, there are more examples of our accomplishments than we have...

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