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A tented grocery store meets essential community needs

November 1st, 2020

Residents of Minneapolis’ East Lake Street neighborhood can access fresh groceries, pharmacy items, transit passes and banking services in a 13,000-square-foot tented store that is temporarily replacing a supermarket damaged during early summer riots. Photo: Tom Paule. The summer season for tent rental companies is usually filled with weddings and festivals, but there is nothing […]

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Losberger acquires De Boer Structures

June 21st, 2017

Losberger Holding GmbH, Bad Rappenau, Germany, has acquired De Boer Structures Holding BV, Alkmaar, the Netherlands, to create a leading global provider of temporary space solutions. The company will be called Losberger De Boer Group to fully capitalize on the strengths of both brands. The relationship will position Losberger as a leading company in the […]

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Thinking outside the rectangle

May 1st, 2015

Tent manufacturers, rental companies and event planners are stretching their boundaries with new tent shapes and flexible materials. Consider, if you will, the Pythagoreans, who dissected a sphere as early as 600 B.C. Latecomers like Plato and Buckminster Fuller took the ball and ran with it, so to speak. But in 2015, Platonic polyhedral/geodesic domes […]

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