The International Roofing Expo 2017 in Las Vegas proved to be the biggest show in the industry’s history. For 62 years, roofing manufacturers, suppliers, contractors and service providers have gathered annually in destination cities across the country to showcase and celebrate the business, but never had they turned out like this before.
Informa Exhibitions, the trade and event company that operates the annual show, noted attendance March 1-3 exceeded 11,200 at the Mandalay Bay Convention Center. That’s an increase of roughly 16 percent from the attendance at the 2016 IRE in Orlando (9,493); a jump of 17 percent from the 2015 IRE in New Orleans; and an increase of 15 percent from the last time IRE was in Sin City in 2014 (9,568).