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NADRA
 The National Deck Competition is live and accepting entries. Within the online portal, you will find everything you need to know about the competition, categories, rules, terms & conditions, Sponsorship Opportunities and even more details and links on how to register to attend the 2015 Main Event! Deadline to enter is Monday, September 14th. Included this year are categories for builders and vendors. Check it out!
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NADRA
 Please join NADRA in promoting our 2015 Main Event in Chicago by becoming an Official Sponsor! Sponsorship Levels start at just $250! Interact with your market - NADRA's 2015 Main Event gives you unprecedented access at an unbeatable price! Help us reach our goals and sign up today. Learn more and register here.
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NADRA
 Please join NADRA in Chicago for our 2015 Main Event! The Main Event will take place at NADRA's official hotel, The Chicago Marriott Downtown Magnificent Mile on Thursday, Oct. 1, 2015 at 6 p.m.
- Cocktail Reception
- National Industry & Deck Awards
- Dinner
- Silent Auction, Raffles, 50/50, Door Prizes
- After Party - Entertainment by Howl2Go (Dueling Pianos!) - The NADRA after party is open to everyone starting at 10pm.
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NADRA
This meeting we welcome Southeastern Underdeck Systems for sponsoring the meeting. Heath Bowman and his team will be talking about ways to maximize your outdoor living space without breaking the bank. We are thrilled to have them sponsor and look forward to hearing their presentation.
We also have a very exciting keynote speaker. For those of you currently using or have interest in getting your full potential out of Constant Contact - we welcome Demming Bass, IOM Regional Development Director, Constant Contact, Inc. & look forward to learning more about Constant Contact and how it can help our members and businesses.
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NADRA
Make attending official NADRA events easier and save more time for networking by staying with fellow NADRA members. Make sure to book your hotel soon! Rooms are limited.
Learn more and reserve your room by clicking here.
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WOLF Home Products
Let’s start with the basics. PVC stands for polyvinyl chloride, a synthetic plastic polymer. This is why you may hear PVC decking called “synthetic” or “plastic” decking. This man-made material is extremely low-maintenance. Still, there’s nothing plastic looking about WOLF Decking, which is what sets WOLF apart from other PVC decking lines.
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Recycling Today
Trex Company Inc., Winchester, Virginia, is reporting a growing installation base for its Elevations deck product line with steel framing. Trex plastic decking products, which come with a 25-year limited warranty, are made with recycled-content plastic and are designed to prolong the life of a deck. The company says pressure-treated lumber can most often resist decay for a maximum of 15 years.
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Plastics News
Deceuninck North America is expanding the options it offers customers needing compounding expertise beyond blending, saying it can help make their manufacturing operations more efficient and their products perform better. Headquartered in Monroe, Ohio, the subsidiary of the Belgium-based Deceunink Group is more widely known for manufacturing vinyl window and door systems and decking and railing for its own brands.
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Fine Homebuilding
Recently, a cantilevered balcony collapsed in Berkeley, California, killing six people. The evident reason was wood rot, caused either by poor initial construction or by a lack of maintenance. An article in the San Jose Mercury News suggests that, particularly with multifamily homes, similar problems abound in the Bay Area.
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WBTW-TV
Several people were injured after a deck collapsed at a home in Carteret County, North Carolina.
Emerald Isle Police and Emergency Services responded to the call on an ocean side deck at 17 Ocean Drive Monday night.
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PRWeb
Somerville Aluminum joins the top 5 percent of deck contractors nationwide with its TrexPro Gold designation and continues to be one of the largest decking installers in central New Jersey.
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Industrial Distribution
Pan American Screw LLC announces the acquisition of Western Builders Supply, Inc. of Billings, Montana.
WBS distributes a full line of construction fasteners direct to lumberyards, home centers, and farm and ranch supply businesses in the North Central and Rocky Mountain states.
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Noozhawk
An outdoor room is realistic and easy to pull off.
Because of this, many of us already have outdoor living spaces. But just like indoor rooms need regular tending, outdoor rooms need some attention and occasional updating to stay appealing.
Here are six ideas to reboot your outdoor living space to make it even more appealing.
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By Randall Craig
 How much does your organization spend on your brand? Usually, this question yields answers in the following categories: logo design, collateral production messaging and ads. For more sophisticated organizations, it also includes elements of social media. But what about the two fundamental delivery mechanisms of the brand itself: people and the online user experience?
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Business 2 Community
Growth is a key objective for any small business, you may have started out small but you’ll have ambitions to grow and a plan of how to get there.
Lead generation is fundamental to this, think of it as the workhorse of growth — without a strong source of leads your sales pipeline will dry up.
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Entrepreneur
Got a minute? No, you say?
You need not be a superhero to effectively manage your time at the office. You just need some simple solutions that will allow you to maximize your efficiency. Here are eight weird but effective strategies for managing your time even when you work in a busy office with a lot of people who are magnetized to you like moths to light.
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