Ames Taping Tools, the leading provider of automatic taping and finishing tools, supplies and training to the professional drywall finishing industry, opened its newest location in Phoenix, Ariz.
Ames Taping Tools, the leading provider of automatic taping and finishing tools, supplies and training to the professional drywall finishing industry, opened its newest location in Phoenix, Ariz.
“We are excited to see continued expansion in the Phoenix market,” said John Fechner, Ames regional vice president – West. “The addition of a third valley-area location will help us better serve our customers in Phoenix during this time of growth as they look to increase production with innovative processes and products.”
The addition of the Phoenix location brings Ames to 68 corporate stores. The new store provides rental service for the complete line of Ames automatic taping and finishing tools. The store also sells the TapeTech line of ATF tools as well as an assortment of associated drywall products, merchandise and hand tools.
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.
