Ames Taping Tools, provider of automatic taping and finishing tools, supplies and training to the professional drywall finishing industry has opened a new location in Vancouver, Wash. The Vancouver branch gives Ames 64 corporate stores and 47 franchise locations.
The new store provides rental service for Ames’ complete line of automatic taping and finishing tools. The store also sells the company’s TapeTech line of ATF tools as well as an assortment of associated drywall products, merchandise and hand tools.
“We are excited to have this new location in Vancouver to open opportunities in southern Washington as well as help support our northern Portland, Oregon, market,” said John Fechner, Ames regional vice president – west. “We look forward to continuing our growth efforts by adding more service in the northwest.”
Ames Taping Tools is based in Stone Mountain, Ga., and 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.