Tents Archives

Getting temporary structures to work

October 1, 2011 | Projects, Tents

The isolated and remote highlands of Papua New Guinea (an island nation north of Australia), house potential oil reserves open to exploration, but only a helicopter can get people and materials from ports to mining camps. Building permanent structures for camps isn’t an option; mobility is a m…

Alain Perez pushes the limits

October 1, 2011 | Features, Management, Perspective, Tents

Alain Perez embraces challenge to create extraordinary temporary structures. By Sigrid Tornquist There came a point in our business when we realized that if we were really going to make a difference for our clients and our company, we had to control the product from design to fabrication to installa…

Fabric structures for glamorous camping

October 1, 2011 | Features, Tents

Fabric structure manufacturers find a global market in the ‘glamping’ trend. By Janice Kleinschmidt Have you heard about the s’more sommelier? That sounds like the setup to a joke. It is a setup—but it’s no joke. The Happy Glamper package at Lakedale Resort Campground o…

Where tent markets stand today

October 1, 2011 | Markets, Tents

IFAI’s 2011 State of the U.S. and Canadian Tent Rental Market report shows hopeful growth. By Jeffrey Rasmussen IFAI market research reveals that participants in the tent manufacturing and rental industry have had to face challenges on more than one front, but real improvements are evident, pa…

Tents for cemeteries using WeatherMax fabrics

September 6, 2011 | Products, Tents

Tents are by far the largest business segment for Cemetery Funeral Supply (CFS), a distributor of equipment and supplies for final resting places. CFS fabricates six tent lines for funeral and cemetery operation, in all shapes and sizes, and company owner Stanley Scruggs opts for WeatherMax™ f…

Sustainable festival tent has â€˜Xâ€™ appeal

September 1, 2011 | Projects, Tents

The Neenan Company, an architecture and construction business in Fort Collins, Colo., invited its employees to enter a contest to create a portable, biodegradable, recyclable or sustainably produced festival tent for the launch of the first Eco Music (EMU) festival in Snowmass, Co. The winner, Ben S…

Anchor Industries reorganizes to drive clearspan markets

August 10, 2011 | Industry News, Tents

Anchor Industries has announced a strategic reorganization of its special events tenting operations to capitalize on its clearspan success and position it for accelerated growth in the structure marketplace. “The new products and sharpened focus we’ve put into our clearspan business have…

The Bard hits the beachâ€”in a better tent

August 1, 2011 | Projects, Tents

Every summer since 1990, western Canada’s largest professional Shakespeare company, Bard on the Beach, has performed in open-ended tents on the waterfront in Vancouver’s Vanier Park. Now, with a $500,000 donation from BMO Financial Group, more people can sample the best of the bard in a …

New ownership for Tents Unlimited

August 1, 2011 | Industry News, Tents

Three event industry veterans, each with more than 20 years experience in tent and event rental, have formed a new ownership group to purchase Atlanta-based Tents Unlimited Inc., Event Rentals Unlimited Inc. and Event Flooring Unlimited Inc. The ownership group includes Dan Nolan III, who guided Ten…

New codes for temporary fabric structures