What’s new?” That phrase, or something like it, might be the most commonly overheard question at a trade show booth. New products are always the center of attention, and the Roofing Contractoreditors make it a priority to seek out new and improved offerings. After some of the big trade shows in the first quarter of the year, we put our heads together to single out some of the industry’s most recent innovations for our Editor’s Choice feature.
We hope it wasn’t our collective imagination, but we sensed a genuine optimism about the outlook for the roofing market and the overall economy in the first quarter of 2013 — and that impression was bolstered by some noteworthy product launches. Here are some of the more interesting and innovative new products that grabbed our attention online, in print, and at key national and regional industry trade shows over the past year. The following products received Roofing Contractor’s annual Editor’s Choice awards for 2013.