Leaders in the roofing industry gave an optimistic outlook for third-quarter sales and production, but are worried how the pandemic, paired with supply chain issues and the election, will affect the future.
“What we’ve been hearing from residential contractors is that it’s been a real robust year, a lot of it has been driven by people not being able to go on vacations, they had extra money, people had stimulus dollars,” said Reid Ribble, CEO of the National Roofing Contractors Association (NRCA). “Other parts of the country we’re starting to see a slowdown in commercial roofing.”