Ames Taping Tools, leading provider of automatic taping and finishing tools, supplies and training to the professional drywall finishing industry, has opened a new branch in Raleigh, N.C. The addition brings Ames to 65 corporate stores and 47 franchise locations.
“We always look forward to opening the doors at a new location,” said Dan Hughes, Ames regional vice president – south. “By opening this newest location in the Raleigh market, we continue our efforts to eliminate lost job time for customers having to find their tools and supplies at multiple locations.
The new store provides rental service for Ames’ complete line of automatic taping and finishing tools. It also sells the company’s TapeTech line of ATF tools as well as an assortment of associated drywall products, merchandise and hand tools.
Ames is based in Stone Mountain, Ga. The company invested automatic taping and finishing tool technology in 1939 and improved it with the introduction of the Bazooka in the 1950s. Ames is No. 95 on the RER 100.
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Michael Roth has covered the equipment rental industry full time for RER since 1989 and has served as the magazine’s editor in chief since 1994. He has nearly 30 years experience as a professional journalist. Roth has visited hundreds of rental centers and industry manufacturers, written hundreds of feature stories for RER and thousands of news stories for the magazine and its electronic newsletter RER Reports. Roth has interviewed leading executives for most of the industry’s largest rental companies and manufacturers as well as hundreds of smaller independent companies. He has visited with and reported on rental companies and manufacturers in Europe, Central America and Asia as well as Mexico, Canada and the United States. Roth was co-founder of RER Reports, the industry’s first weekly newsletter, which began as a fax newsletter in 1996, and later became an online newsletter. Roth has spoken at conventions sponsored by the American Rental Association, Associated Equipment Distributors, California Rental Association and other industry events and has spoken before industry groups in several countries. He lives and works in Los Angeles when he’s not traveling to cover industry events.