According to a recent insulation industry survey, the amount of pre- and post-consumer glass and blast furnace slag recycled over the past nine years has totaled more than 18 billion pounds.
We draw your attention to some new (or not-so new) and emerging materials, systems and equipment that are vying to become the next great thing in the roofing industry.
The television news has been rather depressing lately, so we thought you would prefer to open up your latest issue of Roofing Contractor to read about a good-old-fashioned American success story — the kind where motivation, hard work and ambition are rewarded; the kind that says you can get ahead if you try.
As NRCA conventions go, this one was a success by several measures, but mainly from that seat-of-the-pants feeling that you get when you arrive back home with tons of literature and business cards and are actually interested to follow up and learn more.
Imagine that everything is going smoothly on a 4,600-square TPO job, and then, when work is two thirds of the way done, someone decides that the roof needs a mechanical screen.
Late in the afternoon, a UPS van pulls up to your office and a number of large cardboard boxes are unloaded. In a matter of minutes, there are hundreds, or more likely, thousands of dollars of equipment stacked in your waiting room, shipped directly from the Never Fear Safety Co. The answer to all of your safety problems has arrived!
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