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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...

The Human Touch

by Penny Sitler | Jul 29, 2015 | Draper Updates

For the past several months, we've been running a Wednesday series on this blog called "Why Draper?". Each Wednesday we've introduced a different Draper employee--usually someone who works with our customers in one capacity or another. They are part of Draper's human...

Wrong Thinking About Daylighting

by Jeff Miller | Jul 24, 2015 | Architecture/Green Building, Solar Control & Window Shades

Here at Draper we think a lot about ways to manage daylighting. Current sustainable architectural trends depend a great deal upon daylighting, so there are more challenges and opportunities than ever before to harvest daylight, and reduce glare and heat gain issues....

Projection Versus Flatscreens

by Amy Madden | Jul 20, 2015 | Home Theatre, International Update, Pro AV Integration, Screen Technology

I recently read what I felt was a rather short-sighted blog post concerning the pros and cons of projection versus screens. The premise of the post—that projection is only an attractive option if you “want to watch movies”—is extremely limiting. I do agree that the...

Draper Provides Summer Jobs for College Students

by Terry Coffey | Jul 17, 2015 | Draper Updates

There are several signs that summer has at last reached Indiana. People start disappearing for summer vacations. Corn and soybeans start poking out of once bare fields. Farmers’ Markets start popping up in parking lots every Saturday morning. If you work at Draper,...

Halfway Through the Year of Draper

by Terry Coffey | Jul 15, 2015 | Draper Updates

As the old saying goes, "time flies when you're having fun." For this week’s Why Draper post, we thought it would be nice to take a halfway-point look at the Year of Draper. Or, as we call it on Twitter, the #YearOfDraper. So far this year, we’ve shared 120 photos—not...

More Awards for TecVision

by Terry Coffey | Jul 13, 2015 | Draper Updates, Home Theatre, Houses of Worship, International Update, Pro AV Integration, Rental & Staging, Screen Technology

It’s a good feeling when you know you have something extraordinary, and other people start confirming it. When we introduced TecVision back in 2014 at Integrated Systems Expo, we felt like we were on to something special, but we weren’t sure if others would see it as...

Draper Materials and Inventory Efforts Recognized

by Terry Coffey | Jul 10, 2015 | Draper Updates

Recently one of Draper’s lesser-known efforts at improving customer experience received some nice kudos. Draper was named 2015 Company of the Year by the Central Indiana Chapter of APICS, the leading professional organization for operations and supply chain...

On Projection Screens and Ashes

by Terry Coffey | Jul 6, 2015 | Draper Updates, International Update, Pro AV Integration, Screen Technology

I am very excited. And, while I am by nature the last person to stand around talking about sports, my excitement is tinged with a bit of frustration, because there are probably only a handful of people within a 200 mile radius who share my excitement. Travel a great...

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