PEOPLE
PROJECTS
&
DuPont Launches First
Schukar, vice president of vendor relations. helps visitors find what they need quickly.
"All brands under the Whirlpool Corpora- We want our customers to have a positive
iPhone App for Surfaces
tion umbrella are meaningful to our group online experience.”
DuPont is revolutionizing the way con-
and are well received by our member
sumers, architects and designers choose
showroom designers.”
their surfaces with mySurface, the first
Acme Brick to Distribute
The annual award is judged on a num-
iPhone application of its kind. Among the
ber of criteria, including quality and value
VAST Composite Masonry
features of the mySurface app:
of the product, quality of customer service,
Searching for DuPont™ Corian® solid
Products Made from
quality of representation in the field, over-
surface and DuPont™ Zodiaq® quartz
all perception of the relationship between
Recycled Rubber and Plastics
surface colors by hue, providing a color
the vendor and the group, as well as the
Acme Brick and vAST Enterprises LLC
swatch that fills the screen along with
relationship between the vendor and the
announced that Acme has agreed to dis-
sample-ordering information.
individual showrooms it supports.
tribute vAST composite masonry products
Paperless access to all 130 colors of
For more information visit www.inside-
as an alternative for green building. vAST
Corian® and over 60 colors of Zodiaq®
advantage.com or call 1-800-952-2537.
composite masonry products, which are
to inspire homeowners, architects and manufactured in a patented blend of
designers to experiment and imagine post-consumer recycled automobile tires
design possibilities.
Redesigned LP® Web Site
and plastic containers, include Composite
A fun, easy way for consumers to match
Provides Easier Access to
Landscape Pavers, Composite Permeable
countertop colors with kitchen and Pavers for stormwater management, Com-
bath designs with an all-in-one tool.
Tools and Information
posite Deck Pavers, and Composite Thin
LP Building Products has streamlined
DuPont will provide updates and en-
Brick. Acme now distributes vAST products
the design of its Web site, www.lpcorp.
hanced features to the app on a regular
in Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas, Tennessee,
com, providing customers with new re-
basis to keep the tool at the forefront of
Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma, Colorado and
sources and easier access to the latest LP
technology. For more information on this
New Mexico.
product and company information.
new product, visit: www.hostingimagese-
“This market for green building materi-
“The new site provides relevant, con-
mail.com/dupont/iphone/
als is projected to expand by 7% annually
cise information on LP and the products we
over the next five years, and Acme is com-
make, in a design that’s simple and easy to
mitted to being our customers’ partner in
Whirlpool Corporation
navigate,” said Lisa Taylor, LP brand man-
green building,” said Dennis Knautz, presi-
Honored with “Vendor of
ager. “We organized the information into
dent and CEO, Acme Brick. “That’s why we
floor, wall, and roof categories, since our
the Year” Award from BKBG
have introduced new alternatives like our
customers think about products based on
lean brick, and that’s why we are distrib-
Whirlpool Corporation was recently where they are used in the home.”
uting vAST composite masonry products.
recognized with the “vendor of the Year” “A wide range of users visit our site
vAST gives our customers another excep-
award from the Bath & Kitchen Buying every day, including builders, dealers,
tional option for green building.”
Group (BKBG) at its annual Fall Conference distributors, retailers, homeowners, and
The lean versions of Acme’s King Size
in Dallas, Texas. shareholders,” continued Taylor. “When
and modular brick are the company’s most
“The company brings a level of quality you offer as many products and resources
earth-friendly to date. Acme Brick engi-
and professionalism that we are proud to as we do, it’s important to organize the
neers’ innovation in brick design increases
be associated with at BKBG," said Eddie information in an inviting format that
the area of a brick’s core holes from 25%
to 33% — without sacrificing any perfor-
mance qualities. Lean brick yields savings
of 11% in the energy used to fire brick. The
Vast composite deck
10% weight reduction generates additional
pavers provide a
savings in transportation energy require-
lightweight, green,
ments and costs.
alternative to other
With its patented material science
decking materials.
technology, vAST transforms recycled
Acme Brick Company
rubber and plastics into a new green build-
is the exclusive dealer
ing material: composite masonry. vAST’s
for VAST pavers in the
technology achievement: engineering the
south central U.S.
world’s first composite material with up
to 95% recycled content that provides the
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