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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...

Virtual Reality Offers a New Opportunity for AV Marketers

by Terry Coffey | Nov 13, 2018 | Audiovisual Mounts & Structures, Digital Signage, Draper Updates, Home Theatre, Houses of Worship, International Update, Pro AV Integration, Rental & Staging

Virtual reality and augmented reality offer many possibilities for integration with other AV in a variety of applications. Gaming, architecture, healthcare, and education are just a few of the markets where virtual reality has potential game-changing impacts. But it...

New Projector Enclosures Solve Mounting Problems

by Terry Coffey | Nov 9, 2018 | Draper Updates, Home Theatre, Houses of Worship, International Update, Pro AV Integration, Rental & Staging

Each type of projection environment provides its own set of challenges. Issues such as projector heat, fan noise, security, and mounting in challenging locations require specifically designed solutions. Draper’s two newest projector enclosures are designed to solve...

Special Announcement in Sustainable Solar Control

by Terry Coffey | Nov 2, 2018 | Architecture/Green Building, Draper Updates, Solar Control & Window Shades

Today’s architects are seeking more product transparency and sustainable design choices and we’ve been getting more requests for products with a limited number of ingredients. That’s why we will be making a special announcement at Greenbuild 2018. We can’t say...

Five Advantages of Draper Projection Screens

by Terry Coffey | Oct 30, 2018 | Draper Updates, Home Theatre, Houses of Worship, International Update, Pro AV Integration, Rental & Staging, Screen Technology

There are quite a few projection screen companies around the world. And we all are making pretty much the same thing, right? A flat, usually white surface to project content on. The truth is much more complicated than that. Not all projection screens are created equal...

Updated Daylighting Academy Recognizes Project-by-Project Solutions

by Terry Coffey | Oct 26, 2018 | Architecture/Green Building, Draper Updates, Solar Control & Window Shades

No single solar control solution fits every application, and often there is no standard solution in place. Draper is updating its Daylighting Academy with new educational materials to help architects recognize how to address solar control issues on a...

Berra’s Law for the AV Industry

by Terry Coffey | Oct 23, 2018 | Audiovisual Mounts & Structures, Draper Updates, Home Theatre, Houses of Worship, International Update, Pro AV Integration

“In theory, there’s no difference between theory and practice, but in practice, there is.” That is one of the many “Yogi-isms” attributed to the great New York Yankees catcher and philosopher Yogi Berra. And it’s what rAVe Publications blogger Dr. Frederick Ampel...

Five Ways We Help You Finish the Job Faster

by Terry Coffey | Oct 19, 2018 | Architecture/Green Building, Draper Updates, Solar Control & Window Shades

Time is money. That time-worn statement may be a cliché, but it still applies, especially in the solar control market. Shading solutions are just one part of the construction process and installers have a limited amount of time to get their products installed without...

Draper Partner Spotlight: NEC

by Terry Coffey | Oct 16, 2018 | Architecture/Green Building, Audiovisual Mounts & Structures, Draper Updates, International Update, Pro AV Integration, Screen Technology

Sometimes a pre-existing solution just won’t fit the audiovisual need. The demand for custom solutions has been made abundantly clear to us since we introduced our custom audiovisual solutions initiative at InfoComm in June. Industry acceptance of our new initiative...

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