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In 2017, Safco Products acquired the Mayline Company. Please see the information below for an update on the Mayline Flat Files, one of our favorite product lines. Effective February 26, 2018 Safco is transitioning the sales of the Traditional Mayline C-Files to the legacy Safco Flat Files. This will be the new Mayline—Safco Flat File moving forward. During this transition to a new manufacturing facility, Safco is initiating a temporary hold on the manufacturing of Mayline Interlocking Flat …

Drafting Equipment Warehouse is excited to offer another line of high-quality wooden drafting tables, flat files, and supply storage! Check it out here: Diversified Woodcrafts Educational Drafting Furniture Diversified Woodcrafts offers such a LARGE selection that it will take a while to add all they have available to our website. Check back often for an updated selection. Here is a little more about Diversified Woodcrafts: 1975 We are the classic story. It all started with making test tube dry …

As promised in my last blog I will look at the past twenty-three years of the drafting/engineering supplies industry. The drafting industry definitely hit a fork-in-the-road in 1990 to 2008. CAD (Computer Aided Drafting) became the star rookie for engineering and architectural drafting. This initiated a major trend in companies coast to coast. Equipment used in the standard drafting rooms began to change rapidly. The larger corporations and professional firms began switching to computer-driven d …

In the first three blogs I have shared with you my early life and introduction to the field of architectural/engineering drafting. At the end of my previous blog I promised more information about the development of the drafting industry. World War II was a big game changer in the American culture. I mentioned earlier regarding the extensive travel of all the military personnel. Many of our fighting men and women were from very rural parts of our United States. For the first time in their lives o …

After World War II ended there was a new spirit of travel and adventure in the lives of many Americans. Many of the men and women who had participated in the war effort had traveled extensively in the United States and other parts of the world. Those from rural states and towns were introduced to many attractive and exciting places they had never seen before. The southwestern portion of the United States was lightly populated at that time. Many former service men and women began moving west and …

At the end of my first blog I promised to supply you with insight into my life. With the advent of the internet, ancestry has become a fascination with many. People are curious about their roots. Ancestry has become a fascinating pastime. Most of us know our immediate past, such as grand folks, aunts and uncles and cousins. For many, even great-grandparents and great-great-grandparents are already in the family stories. But beyond this, few of us know our distant kin. One thing I am sure of, we …

Hello, I am Gary Keating co-owner of Drafting Equipment Warehouse (DEW). I would like to introduce you to our business and our friendly staff who process your orders. My wife Sandra and I founded DEW in September 1994. DEW is a Limited Liability Company registered through the State of Arizona Corporation Division since 1994. That was a time in history when the advancement of electronics was really beginning to impact the business world. Cell phones were no longer the domain of the professional c …