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NADRA Member Events
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TODAY, Wednesday, March 12 from 11 a.m.-6 p.m.
Phoenix Manufacturing, Inc. will be exhibiting at:
IDEAS LBM Show
Where: The Valley Forge Casino Resort
160 First Avenue, King of Prussia, PA
Saturday and Sunday, March 22-23 from 11 a.m.-5 p.m.
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2701 Summer Street Stamford, CT
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Deceuninck North America Partners with FP Supply Kansas City to Offer Clubhouse PVC Decking and Elite Railing to its Customers
NADRA Blog
Deceuninck North America, a leading designer and manufacturer of high-quality systems for windows, doors and outdoor living, is pleased to announce its partnership with Forest Products Supply Kansas City, a division of Forest Products Supply, a leading wholesale distributor of lumber and building materials in the Midwest. Deceuninck will work with Forest Products Supply Kansas City to offer Clubhouse PVC Decking and Clubhouse Elite Railing to its customers in the Kansas City, Kansas and Missouri markets.
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Capped composite decking offers look of hand-scraped wood
ThomasNet News
TimberTech, a world leader in alternative decking and railing, is the first manufacturer to bring the popular hand-scraped look of indoor wood flooring to the outdoors. TimberTech's Earthwood Evolutions' line of capped composite decking now includes the Legacy Collection, with its earthy hardwood looks and rich undulating grains, to evoke the days of hand-hewn wood.
OZCO Building Products Announces Distribution Relationship with California Cascade Industries
NADRA Blog
OZCO Building Products, a leading innovator of building products, announces its distribution relationship with California Cascade Industries, a progressive force in the building products distribution industry. Its highly trained and knowledgeable staff focuses on bringing value to the market with innovative and unique products.
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BW Creative Railing Systems is one of the world’s leading manufacturers of railing systems, components and accessories. We manufacture railings for the interior stairways market and the exterior deck, porch and balcony market. Since 1974 BWC has built a solid reputation through core values of trust, integrity, respect and fairness.
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Is Trex taking a play out of Tesla's playbook?
DailyFinance
Tesla Motors and Trex have almost nothing in common. One is an innovative leader with expertise in a product that reduces greenhouse gas emissions versus its competitors, generally caters to an upscale clientele, and grew like crazy last year. The other is, well, Tesla. Both Tesla and Trex are innovative leaders in products that largely claim to be better for the environment than their competitors — Tesla through its EVs, and Trex through its alternative wood decking, which is made of a combination of recycled wood and plastic waste.
Universal Forest Products Inc. teams up with Wyoming's National Nail Corp.
MLive.com
Two west Michigan-based suppliers of deck-building materials are teaming up to build better backyard decks. Universal Forest Products Inc., which sells Pro Wood pressure-treated decking, announced a co-marketing agreement to distribute the Camo Hidden Deck Fastening System, a product of Wyoming-based National Nail Corp.
Boise Cascade Expands Distribution of Top Decking and Railing Brands in the Eastern U.S.
Business Wire via KTAR-TV
Universal Consumer Products, Inc., a subsidiary of Universal Forest Products, Inc., announced that Boise Cascade Building Materials Distribution, in Delanco, N.J., will become a full-line distributor of Latitudes Decking & Railing products and accessories, as well as a distributor of Deckorators CXT Railing Systems.
UFPI to distribute CAMO Hidden Deck Fastening System for ProWood treated decking
Business Wire via KTAR-TV
Universal Forest Products, Inc. is proud to announce a distribution agreement for the CAMO Hidden Deck Fastening System, a product of National Nail Corp. CAMO now is available from select UFPI affiliates and will be co-marketed with the company's ProWood brand of pressure-treated decking. ProWood is the first and only brand of pressured-treated decking to recommend the CAMO Hidden Deck Fastening System.
AZEK Deck adds XLM Tropical and Natural Collections to its low-maintenance PVC deck line
PRNewswire
AZEK Building Products, a leader in premium, exterior, low-maintenance products, announces the addition of the XLM Tropical and Natural Collections, each in three popular colors, to their line of PVC decking. As a pioneer of PVC decking, AZEK Deck reaffirms its market leadership with the addition of the grooved deck board to the product line-up.
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Empty nesters want low-maintenance yards that focus on fun and functionality, not fuss
BPT via Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
One of the first questions new empty nesters face is: what do we do with the nest? Some are eager to downsize and sell. Others like where they live and choose to stay put. No matter the decision, the property, new or old, is likely in for a makeover aimed at making routine upkeep more manageable.
Deceuninck North America decking customer, builder's 1st source, adds clubhouse railing to product offering
PR Newswire via SYS-CON Media
Deceuninck North America, a leading designer and manufacturer of high-quality systems for windows, doors and outdoor living, is pleased to announce that decking customer Builder's First Source has expanded its product offering to include Clubhouse Railing. The Dallas-based supplier of structural building materials and services to homebuilders is now offering both Deceuninck's Clubhouse Decking and Clubhouse Railing to its customers in the Southeast.
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Social media is great, but don't forget old school marketing
Entrepreneur
If you're only marketing your brand online, you're missing out on a sizable chunk of potential customers.
A recent Pew study found that 73 percent of surveyed people 18 years of age and older use social media.
8 phrases marketers should avoid
Inc.
Geoffrey James writes: Over the years, I've listened to hundreds of marketing pitches and participated in thousands of conversations among marketers. I've then watched how well the subsequent marketing campaigns actually performed.
Based on that experience, I've identified eight phrases that almost always mean that a marketing group is on the wrong track and will probably fail.
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