Ames Taping Tools, provider of automatic taping and finishing tools, supplies and training to the professional drywall finishing industry, has opened a second branch in the Houston area.
Ames Taping Tools' new facility is its second in the Houston market.
Ames Taping Tools, provider of automatic taping and finishing tools, supplies and training to the professional drywall finishing industry, has opened a second branch in the Houston area.
“We are excited to see continued growth in the Houston market,” said Karl Heinrich, Ames regional vice president – south. “The addition of a second Houston-area location will help us better serve our customers in the area as their workload increases and they look for solutions to streamline their finishing process.”
The new location gives Ames 70 corporate stores. It provides rental services for the company’s complete line of Ames automatic taping and finishing 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.
