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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...

Why Draper-Randy Reece

by Amy Madden | May 13, 2015 | Draper Updates

This week’s Why Draper subject is Randy Reece. Randy is our AV Regional Sales Manager for Southern California, Southern Nevada, Arizona, and Hawaii. Randy’s relationship with Draper is interesting, because of his background growing up and living here in Indiana—and...

AVL Safety in Churches

by Amy Madden | May 8, 2015 | Houses of Worship

I recently read an interesting article by Anthony Coppedge titled, AVL Safety Needed in Churches. This article spoke to me on two topics in particular. First of all, it brought to mind the use of lifts, specifically our scissor lift, for installed projectors in very...

Optically Seamless: New Technologies Solving an Old Problem

by Terry Coffey | May 4, 2015 | Home Theatre, Houses of Worship, International Update, Pro AV Integration, Screen Technology

A seam in a projection screen viewing surface has never been a popular subject, but it has been a fact of life for virtually every screen manufacturer (and their customers) for decades. Although Draper has improved on our seaming techniques over the years, we recently...

Greener PVC Shade Fabrics

by Chris Broome | May 1, 2015 | Architecture/Green Building, Solar Control & Window Shades

Some window shade fabrics are greener than others. Over the past few years, several PVC-free window shade fabrics have been introduced. However, these fabrics often don’t perform as well or last as long as fabrics with PVC. Recently there have been developments to...

Exterior Venetian Blinds

by Jeff Miller | Apr 27, 2015 | Architecture/Green Building, Solar Control & Window Shades

Here at Draper we have a solution for pretty much any solar control requirement. Fixed exterior louvers; custom fabric structures; roller shades: You name it, we can do it. Of all the solutions we offer, probably the most effective is our Omega Exterior Venetian...

Vote for Draper (Again)!

by Terry Coffey | Apr 24, 2015 | Draper Updates, Home Theatre, Houses of Worship, International Update, Pro AV Integration, Rental & Staging, Screen Technology

It seems like election news has begun ramping up over the past few weeks. Everywhere you turn, someone is talking about who is running, why someone else isn’t, and what is good or bad about it. You might be forgiven if you’re already getting a bit tired of it. We at...

Why Draper-Matt Schultz

by Amy Madden | Apr 22, 2015 | Draper Updates

Matt Schultz is Draper Regional Manager for the southeastern United States. When Matt isn't on the road, he seems to be doing some outdoor activity. How did you come to be working at Draper? I was working in the pro shop at Westwood Country Club in New Castle,...

Window Shades and Privacy

by Jeff Miller | Apr 20, 2015 | Architecture/Green Building, Solar Control & Window Shades

Note: The following information is also available in a free white paper. To download the PDF, click here. In a recent blog post, we discussed an article on a court ruling involving privacy issues. According to the article, in that court case—in which a judge found...

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