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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...

Preserving Children

by Terry Coffey | Jul 3, 2015 | Draper Updates

This weekend marks the annual Independence Day holiday in the United States. Throughout the country, people will gather for picnics, parties, and fireworks displays. In addition to the patriotic celebrations, this is a big family get-together kind of holiday, with...

Why Draper-Todd Garner

by Amy Madden | Jun 24, 2015 | Draper Updates

Todd Garner (CSI, IIDA) often seems to be at the center of a joke or a prank, but that belies his competitive nature. Todd is our Contract Regional Sales Manager for New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania. One of our marketing people remembers one of the first times...

#DraperPro Contest Winners Announced

by Terry Coffey | Jun 23, 2015 | Draper Updates, Home Theatre, Houses of Worship, International Update, Pro AV Integration, Rental & Staging

InfoComm 2015 is officially in the books, and it was definitely a memorable show. Later this week we’ll have a longer and more detailed wrap-up of the show, but before that there is a bit of unfinished business to take care of. At InfoComm 2015, we promoted the Draper...

Draper Product Designers Bend Over Sideways to Satisfy Customer

by Neal Turner | Jun 22, 2015 | Gym Equipment

Every Draper backstop that is installed in a gym is the result of a custom design process; the unit has been designed and built with that specific building and location in mind. A recent job, however, gave new meaning to the word “custom” as Draper’s designers had to...

DataVisual, Draper Team Up as Draper Canada

by Terry Coffey | Jun 19, 2015 | Draper Updates, Home Theatre, Houses of Worship, International Update, Pro AV Integration

Draper, Inc. and DataVisual have announced a new venture to better serve the Canadian Audio Visual market. DataVisual has been a solid partner for Draper in Canada for the past eight years, and we're stepping up that partnership. Beginning August 1, DataVisual will...

Be a Draper Pro-Take an #avselfie!

by Terry Coffey | Jun 16, 2015 | Home Theatre, Houses of Worship, International Update, Pro AV Integration, Rental & Staging

Last year a Twitter phenomenon swept through InfoComm like the common cold through a first grade classroom. Except the #avselfie didn’t make (most) people sick; it was an uplifting, community-building experience. The brainchild of the gang over at AVNation, the...

AV Veteran Mike Starr-You’ll Be Missed

by Lee Denhart | Jun 15, 2015 | Draper Updates

The AV business is extremely competitive. Despite that, however, people in this industry are like family. A few days ago we received the sad news that we had lost a member of the AV family. Mike Starr, VP - Senior Manager and head of CitiBank’s audio visual team for...

Venetian Blinds Bring Flair, Solar Protection to Pennsylvania Home

by Terry Coffey | Jun 12, 2015 | Architecture/Green Building, Solar Control & Window Shades

When a young German couple approached a Pennsylvania architect to design their new home, they already knew what they wanted. “We’d work and massage the thoughts through drawings and modeling to arrive at the designs and aesthetics all were happy with,” according to...

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