Articles by Roofing Contractor Staff

A tragic roof collapse in Ocean County, NJ, resulted in the death of four people after a residence in a Lacey Township neighborhood caught fire and became fully engulfed by flames before firefighters arrived; a fifth person survived before the roof collapsed and was taken to hospital for treatment.

ABC Supply Co. expands its presence in Canada with the acquisition of Cedar Grove Roofing Supply, including seven locations in Vancouver's Lower Mainland and Vancouver Island.

Year to date in 2023, Beacon has expanded its branch footprint through the completion of six acquisitions and the opening of 14 new greenfield locations.

Patuxent Roofing & Contracting, Inc., an independent provider of re-roofing installation and services, announced its rebranding to PAX Services Group as part of its private equity-backed plans for national scaling and diversification.

SprayWorks Equipment, based in Kent, Ohio, is hosting its sixth annual ‘Customer Appreciation Day’ from 11 a.m.-3 p.m. on Friday, August 25, at the SprayWorks Equipment office in Kent, Ohio.

Roofing innovation: NanoTech Inc, a material science company pioneering a category of climate-resilient materials that enable environmental responsibility without sacrificing financial return, brings on multiple investors in an oversubscribed funding round to combat peak heat in the last weeks of summer.  

The Roofing Alliance, the philanthropic and educational arm of the National Roofing Contractors Association, has launched a Matching Scholarship Donation Program to raise $400,000 for its Melvin Kruger Endowed Scholarship Program. 

Shelley J. Bausch, senior vice president of Global Industrial Coatings at Axalta Coating Systems Ltd., has been elected to the board of directors of GATX Corporation, where she will also serve on the board's Audit and Governance Committees, bringing the total number of board members to nine, including eight independent directors.

The city of San Francisco halted Elon Musk's plan to place a large metal logo on top of the former Twitter headquarters; Musk has proceeded with rebranding Twitter to 'X.’

Seattle-based real estate AI tech firm, Quantarium, is challenging the standard two-month lag used by the Case-Shiller Index to determine changes in home prices with its TerraIndex HPI; the company says its index provides real-time estimates made available on the second Wednesday of the following month.