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	American Classics[TM] Collection American Hardwood Co. American Hardwood Co. (AHC), Los Angeles, CA, announces the first and only guarantee against warpage on its American Classics[TM] Collection featuring premium basswood and poplar wood blind components. AHC consistently delivers the highest quality product innovation and best value. The Warp Free Guarantee[TM] is one of the many exclusive benefits available to Advantage Alliance[TM] fabricators.
	Lacquered Wood Program Kirsch The Lacquered Wood Program, part of the Wood Trends[TM] Collection from Kirsch, Freeport, IL, combines the beauty of wood with three high-luster finishes-black, white and mahogany-to create a high-fashion look. Brass accents add a touch of elegance to finials and brackets. The choice of finials includes acorn, banister and button. Awarded best new style concept by the Window Covering Manufacturers Association.
	Insight Hunter Douglas Window Fashions Insight is a product and design fair from Hunter Douglas Education and Development Group, Upper Saddle River, NJ. It offers classes on topics ranging from room design and difficult clients to marketing and profitability. Attendees can customize their schedules to include from one to seven sessions.
döfix No*Sew, Inc., Sanford, MI, presents a unique shade clutch system that can be used on either the left or the right side. Its slim design requires minimal projection (1 1/4 inch), and it is offered with a continuous chain of three or four feet, or with a five-foot chain with a connector. The clutch system can be used with döfix mountboards or wood dust board for simple installation. There are no parts to assemble. The KS System from Forest Group USA, Inc., Acworth, GA, is a slimline aluminum powder-coated track system applicable for commercial and residential use. It is easy to bend for wall and ceiling mounting, and offers a complete, versatile system suitable for almost all existing pleat systems. Industrial Coatings Group, Inc., Chicago, IL, presents Décor ShadeLine[TM], a versatile collection of roller shade fabric ranging from light-filtering to room-darkening and offered in natural or synthetic fabrics in a spectrum of fashion colors, tones and textures. Ideal for home, office or recreational applications. The Graber® Exclusively Two-Inch sample book from Springs Window Fashions Division, Inc., Middleton, WI, presents a comprehensive collection of two-inch horizontals with nearly 100 selections on one spread. The book includes Graber Grandeur[TM] aluminum, Lake Forest[TM] and WoodPerfect[TM] faux wood, Traditions[TM] wood and Designer Vinyl collections. Claesson's Wire Elegance available from Conso Products Co., Union, SC, is a rod and clip system for making window treatments that appear to float. European-influenced wire rod design in brass or silver finishes are available with five styles of clips that can be used with sheers to complement any design style. American Hardwood Co. (AHC), Los Angeles, CA, makes available to Advantage Alliance[TM] fabricators, eye-catching and informative sell sheets. This unique point-of-purchase sales tool details the advantages of buying Genuine American Hardwood[TM] products. PowerRise® motorization is featured on Duette® honeycomb shades from Hunter Douglas Window Fashions, Upper Saddle River, NJ. Powered by standard alkaline batteries, so no hard wiring is necessary. New features include a timer to allow consumers to control the time shades are raised and lowered. A new collection of decorative valances is offered exclusively from Daylight Ltd., Feasterville, PA. Distinguish any window treatment with this decorative valance system available in four stock sizes, each in nine popular colors. Provide customers with a major upgrade for a minor investment. The latest parts catalog from Satellite Metal, Inc., Sainte-Laurent, Quebec, Canada, details its entire line of hardware and components including VaneSaver[TM], VaneSaver Plus[TM], cord weights, brackets and hangers and more. Facades, available from Elmar Inc., Willow Grove, PA, is all about valances, cornices and architectural moldings that beautifully accent any Hunter Douglas installation. Three profile sizes feature five design styles to provide the opportunity to coordinate cornices, valances and moldings in the same decor. MechoShade Systems, Inc., Long Island City, NY, presents the IQ/MLC[TM] system, a state-of-the-art microprocessor-based shade ALIGNment system that uses ElectroShades® with standard asynchronous motors in a point-to-point hardwired system so that all the shades on the system will ALIGN in full up, full down, or in one of three default or custom mid-window positions. The vertical blind line from Lotus & Windoware, City of Industry, CA, offers three types of blinds: standard, self-ALIGNing and new wand-control blind. All the blinds are made of high quality room-darkening PVC and each comes with valance. Blind tracks and tilt rods from Eastern Metal Supply, Inc., Charlotte, NC, are offered in bulk packages with stock length programs available for fabricators. The tracks and rods are packaged for convenient delivery from warehouses in North Carolina and Florida. The drapery sample program from Kay & L Draperies, Inc., Waverly, IA, features hundreds of patterns to choose from. Choices are limited only by the imagination. CACO, Inc., Johnson City, TN, offers Delta Woods, Faux Wood and Archwood with a host of features including select, kiln-dried American hardwood in one- and two-inch slats; color coordinated components, ladders and cords; and steel headrails. The MotorDrape[TM] motorization system from H.T. Barnes, Foley, AL, is a modular direct-drive system that is easy to install and operate with no exposed cords, pulleys or sensors. The 12-volt DC motor operates on low voltage for safe operation and easily pulls 60 pounds over 20 feet of track. The #SSF8 Space-Saver eight-arm fixture from CALHOOK[TM] TMS, Kent, WA, is the ideal, small space free-standing display for fabric sample books. It occupies less than nine square feet of floor space. Eight independently adjustable arms accommodate sample books of different lengths. The Window Coverings Association of America (WCAA) is the only national non-profit trade association dedicated to the retail window coverings industry and to the dealers, decorators and designers who are its members. WCAA presents the Certified Window Treatment Consultant Program at major industry trade shows. See what a difference membership can make. Complete custom manufacturing services for most types of draperies, bedspreads, top treatments and accessories are available from Merrill Y. Landis, Ltd., Telford, PA. For unique home fashions, designs can vary from ornate to simple. Specialty shapes and sizes also are available. Royal Capital Stamping & Tooling Ltd., Etobicoke, Ontario, Canada, announces the Multi System. It offers the versatility of a wall or ceiling mount while reducing your inventory of brackets and snap-on clips. All you need is one bracket style and the clips that twist on. Also available as extension brackets. The solution for inventory cost reduction. Highland Lumber Sales Inc., Anaheim, CA, is one of the West Coast's largest stocking distributors of shutter components. All items are custom-made at its Anaheim facility and can be shipped to any destination within 24 hours. Silverado Services Co., Calistoga, CA, presents wood-style shades in a wide variety of styles. Choose from woven wood and bamboo matchstick styles in many colors to complement any decor. All-American Mini-Blind Cleaning Systems, Mission Viejo, CA, introduces the Weekender, the first stationary or mobile mini-blind cleaning system. Wash, wax and apply antistatic all in one process. Clean all types of mini-blinds, wood and vertical blinds, and even honeycomb shades. Les Outillage Ricci Inc., Montreal, Quebec, Canada, offers vertical blind components featured in its Vertisystem[TM] component brochure. The blind components are self-lubricating to reduce track system friction and permit uniform ALIGNment. The increasing popularity of and demand for the use of glass blocks has prompted Outwater Plastics Industries, Inc., Wood-Ridge, NJ, to introduce its new mortarless Swift Track[TM] glass block installation system. An extruded, rigid acrylic connector track enables both professional masons and those without glass block building experience to build with glass block more quickly, easily, efficiently and cost effectively. The rich, romantic history of New Orleans' French Quarter and stately houses along the Mississippi River continue to fuel inspiration for the third New Orleans collection from York Wallcoverings, York, PA. From its Cary Lind Studio, the designs reflect many traditional French influences from the timeless color palette ranging from French blue to light olive greens and café au lait to opulent and embellished details and heirloom looks. With the Mirage Kitchen & Bath Vol. II collection available from Brewster Wallcovering Co., Randolph, MA, you'll find a pattern to accentuate any of your kitchen and bath designs. Traditional fruit motifs, florals, sea shells, tiles featuring herbs, brightly colored daisies and tropical fish in inviting colorways are featured. The collection offers 81 sidewalls and 42 borders.