Englert Inc. has unveiled a new machine service program supported by a fleet of
trucks that will visit customers to help with the installation of new equipment
as well as service machines already in the field. Englert’s big red, white and
black tractor-trailers are a familiar sight making deliveries to roofing and
gutter contractors around the country.
DECRA Roofing Systems Inc. was a participant in the first international
sustainable energy demonstration community in Beijing, China.
The Future House community consisted of 10 homes, sponsored by countries from
around the world, each designed and built with the common goal of bringing
together the best building practices and materials demonstrating environmental
responsibility.
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.
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.
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