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Wood's Powr-Grip to be featured on TV

Wednesday, November 7, 2007 10:58 AM MST

Wood’s Powr-Grip employee Sherry Engen is filmed preparing a handle for a hand cup assembly for a segment of Cool Tools.

Wood's Powr-Grip will showcase its innovative vacuum hand cups on a new television series entitled “Cool Tools,” premiering this fall on the Do It Yourself Network. On Thursday evening, Nov. 29, at 7:30 pm. (Mountain Time), the Powr-Grip team will demonstrate to a national audience how they manufacture the vacuum cups that are so popular in the construction and glass industries. High Noon Entertainment produces the new show.

Since 1964, Wood's Powr-Grip has been making its innovative vacuum hand cups, designed to ease the lifting and maneuvering of awkward materials such as glass sheets and countertops. Powr-Grip vacuum cups feature their trademark red-line vacuum indicator, which alerts the user of any vacuum loss, and check valve, which allows the user to re-establish vacuum without removing the vacuum from the load surface.

Powr-Grip vacuum cups are used worldwide, offering efficiency and convenience to construction and installation crews everywhere. High Noon Entertainment, based in Denver, CO, took notice of these vacuum cups and deemed them a really “Cool Tool,” deciding to showcase them on their new series.

“Cool Tools” will be hosted by Chris Grundy, an avid do-it-yourselfer and tool junkie, who also offers a touch of humor. “Cool Tools” will give viewers an inside look at the most fascinating tools on the market today, while providing tool tips, trivia and behind-the-scenes factory tours to see how these tools are made.

Also featured with the Wood's Powr-Grip vacuum cup will be an electric log splitter, robotic lawn mower, and lightweight cordless band saw. High Noon Entertainment promises the series won't just be like “show and tell,” but more like “a trip to the hardware store on steroids.”

“Cool Tools” will join High Noon Entertainment's long lineup of successful shows including Do It Yourself's “Trade School” and “Sweat Equity;” Food Network's “Unwrapped” and “Food Network Challenge;” and HGTV's “What You Get for the Money,” “Generation Renovation,” and “If Walls Could Talk.”