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Name: Amanda Wilson
Date registered: July 7, 2010

Latest posts

  1. The Architectural Concepts Door Collection Advantage — May 7, 2025
  2. Three Tips to Navigate Shifting Market Conditions — May 5, 2025
  3. Opening the Door to a Rep Career — April 28, 2025
  4. Sliding Doors: An Enduring Choice — June 24, 2024
  5. Hotel Fire Door Violations: A Concern for Family Safety During Travel Season — June 10, 2024

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May 07

The Architectural Concepts Door Collection Advantage

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Why Distributors Are Choosing Architectural Concepts Over the Competition In today’s competitive construction market, your reputation as a distributor is only as strong as the products you represent. That’s why more industry professionals are turning to Architectural Concepts, a manufacturer that consistently delivers quality, customization, and reliability in every door they manufacture. If you’ve ever …

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May 05

Three Tips to Navigate Shifting Market Conditions

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Market conditions are shifting, material costs are fluctuating, and things beyond our control are creating rippling effects across supply chains. Sound familiar? Yes, we are in uncertain times again, but if the pandemic taught us anything, it’s how to navigate disruption with grit and creativity. We have already proven that we can adapt, innovate, and …

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Apr 28

Opening the Door to a Rep Career

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Opening the Door to a Rep Career By Jack Foster | Agency Sales, May 2025 “I love doors and hardware!” If those words betray a real sense of enthusiasm, that’s exactly what they’re intended to do. And that’s the way Amanda Wilson begins a conversation describing how much she cares about being an independent manufacturers’ …

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Jun 24

Sliding Doors: An Enduring Choice

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Sliding Doors: An Enduring Choice Sliding doors have been an essential part of architectural design dating back to the Roman Empire. Although their popularity has fluctuated through the years their valuable space-saving feature makes sliding doors an enduring choice. After experiencing a decline in popularity since the 1920s, the rustic barn style design has recently …

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Jun 10

Hotel Fire Door Violations: A Concern for Family Safety During Travel Season

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Bringing Awareness to Hotel Fire Door Violations: A Concern for Family Safety During Travel Season As someone who has traveled extensively for work over the last several years, encountering a fire door violation in a hotel is not uncommon. However, during a recent stay, I was alarmed to find several fire door violations in the …

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Jun 03

Child Safety Week

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Child Safety Week is an annual campaign dedicated to raising awareness about child safety. It provides an opportunity for us to come together as a community to share practices that help protect children from harm. It is a great way to kick off summer. I will be sharing posts throughout the week to encourage a …

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May 24

Mesker will operate as Mesker MBM LP

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Mesker MBM LP SEAS is excited to learn that Mesker Door and HMX have been acquired by a newly created entity: MESKER MBM LP. On May 3, 2022 dormakaba announced that an agreement had been signed to divest its Mesker business. Below is the official announcement. dormakaba has signed an agreement to divest its Mesker …

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Nov 08

How to Replace a Door Closer

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How to Replace a Door Closer Need to know how to replace a door closer quickly and cost effectively? Design Hardware’s 316R series closer makes replacing a door closer a breeze.  First the Closer  The 316R is a heavy duty door closer that meets ANSI A156.4 Grade 1 standards. It has a rack and pinion design and a cast aluminum body. It is a …

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Sep 17

FireSafe20 Fiberglass Fire Rated Doors

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Special-Lite Introduces New FireSafe20 – Fiberglass 20 minute fire rated Special-Lite’s new FireSafe20 fiberglass fire rated doors provide 20 minute fire protection. FireSafe20 complements their current fire-rated offerings as well as the growing Special-Lite interior architectural product line. The addition of 20 minute fire rated doors round out Special-Lite’s fire rated product offerings and allows you to source fiberglass doors from …

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Dec 19

Classroom Barricade Devices Are Not The Answer

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The Door Security & Safety Foundation has launched a campaign to warn about the dangers of classroom barricade devices. Sadly, the growing number of school shootings have prompted the public to come up with solutions to locking down a classroom door without rconsidering the additional problems that these devices create. There are specific life safety …

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Nov 28

Fiberglass Ballistic Doors

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Fiberglass Ballistic Doors by Special-Lite The AF-100BR3 Door is the first ballistic door manufactured using fiberglass pultrusion technology. This process produces a smooth-faced, corrosion and bullet resistant fiberglass door, with incredible strength and fully sealed for easy cleaning.  Independent lab tested ANSI \ UL-752, Level 3 NIJ-STD-0108.01, Level 3A Bullet resistant panel surrounded with 7.2 …

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Aug 30

Frames Twisted or Set Out of Square

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Frames Twisted or Set Out of Square If you need installation or troubleshooting information, The Steel Door Institute has you covered. If you have not checked out the instructional videos  you are missing out.  These are a great resource for your team or to pass along to a contractor or customer. Related PostsLooking to Reduce …

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