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Garland Industries Inc. has launched a new subsidiary, Garland Energy Systems Inc., which is dedicated to making large-scale alternative energy solutions for commercial, industrial, and institutional customers as easy to purchase, install, and maintain as utility electricity.

In spite of the continuing struggles of the nation's economy, the 2009 International Roofing Expo (IRE) will go down as one of the best.

The Center for the Polyurethanes Industry (CPI), of the American Chemistry Council, issues a call for papers and posters to be presented at the Polyurethanes 2009 Technical Conference, which will be held Oct. 5-7, 2009, at the Gaylord National in Fort Washington, Md.

XCEPTIONAL Metals, a division of Duro-Last Roofing, Inc., announced the availability of a new reference manual at its recent National Sales Seminar in Daytona Beach, Fla. The new piece showcases the products, edge details, and accessories available from EXCEPTIONAL Metals along with CAD drawings of these products, technical data, and a metal color chart.

Donald Ray Presson, 77, the founder and president of Spray King Manufacturing, Inc. of Fresno, Calif., died Thursday, Jan. 29, 2009, after a long illness. He was born March 17, 1931.

Greeted in the morning by a panel of industry superstars at the keynote address and complemented in the afternoon by nearly 400 companies showing off the newest trends, the International Roofing Expo opened Tuesday at the Mandalay Bay Convention Center with a pledge for better times ahead.

Millard Fuller, the visionary Christian with a single-minded, some say stubborn, focus that resulted in more than 300,000 houses built for the poor, died unexpectedly Monday night, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported.

Allied Building Products Corp. announced Bob Feury Jr. as its new chief executive officer, succeeding Michael Lynch. Feury Jr., who since 2000 has served as Allied Building Products’ chief operating officer, took over for Lynch effective Jan. 1, 2009.

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has awarded CertainTeed Corporation the 2008 Save Energy Now Award, applauding the company’s efforts to reduce energy use at its manufacturing facility in Shreveport, La.

Basketball Hall of Famer Bill Walton will not be able to travel to the International Roofing Expo in Las Vegas to provide the Keynote Address on Feb. 3 due to complications from a back injury. Instead, the IRE will present, “Power Panel: What You Need to Know to Survive and Thrive.”