CMI NEWS & ANNOUNCEMENTS

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Price Increase Announcement – Fiberboard Effective:  October 04, 2021 Nationwide Dear Valued Customer; Please be advised that due to rising costs in energy, materials, and transportation, there will be a price increase of 5% to 7% on all fiberboard and cant strip/tapered edge products nationwide effective with shipments October 04, 2021 (regardless of order date). All currently priced fiberboard orders and job quotes must ship prior to October 04, 2021 to receive pre-increase pricing, please confirm any open quotes with CMI prior to this date. We strongly suggest you plan for your inventory needs accordingly. Due to […]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Dear Valued Customer; As the “Leading Importer of Coil Roofing Nails” in the US today we have certain responsibilities. Our customers need to be informed and up dated with accurate market information, and most importantly any possible supply interruptions. GOVERNMENT MANDATED TECHNICAL UPGRADING OF GALVINIZING LINES TO CUT JULY CAPACITY OF ROOFING NAILS.   Since early July most Galvanizing lines that supply the EG coating for roofing nails have been required to immediately undergo a “technical upgrading” as part of enhanced pollution control requirements. This is not the same situation that occurred several years back when all […]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:  Dear Valued Customer; CMI SecureGrip25 has been tested and certified through third party testing agency to meet the new ASTM D8257 – Standard Specification for Mechanically Attached Polymeric Roof Underlayment Used in Steep Slope Roofing. This standard is the new ASTM specification that was ratified only months ago. CMI is the first company with Intertek to have been certified and we are very likely the first in the country. ASTM has taken a handful of years to develop this specification just for synthetic underlayments. The majority of the specifications used to quantify underlayments up to this point […]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Steel Force Majeure… Dear Valued Customer; As the “Leading Importer of Coil Roofing” in the US today, we take our role seriously. We know that you, our customers, depend on us for quality product, timely delivery and accurate market information. While we were the ones to get out in front of the unprecedented spike in steel prices and set a policy to assure no production interruptions, we have had a week to wrap our arms around this situation. I know many plants have stopped production and refuse to produce orders for some of the other nail importers. […]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Price Increase Announcement – Fiberboard Effective:  May 21, 2021 Nationwide Dear Valued Customer; Please be advised that due to rising costs in energy, materials, and transportation, there will be a price increase of 5% to 7% on all fiberboard and cant strip/tapered edge products nationwide effective with shipments May 21, 2021. All currently priced fiberboard orders and job quotes must ship prior to May 21, 2021 to receive pre-increase pricing, please confirm any open quotes with CMI prior to this date. We strongly suggest you plan for your inventory needs accordingly. For special job quotes, revised pricing, […]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: EXCESS FREIGHT SURCHARGE IMPLEMENTATION… Dear Valued Customer; On April 1, 2021 CMI implemented the below previously announced Freight Force Majeure policy. While we did not mandate the signing of the order acknowledgments, every order received since late December 2020 has had this printed on it. During the unprecedented ocean freight run up 4th quarter of 2020 and early 2021 CMI lived up to its commitments and obligations absorbing all freight increases in most cases $2,000 to $3,000 a container. Most of those are the containers our customers are now receiving, costing us $100’s of thousands of dollars […]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: AMERICA’S LARGEST ROOFING NAIL IMPORTER… Dear Valued Customer; New and Additional Capacity CMI is America’s largest roofing nail importer. Over 2.5 million boxes in 2020, enough nails to roof 1,250,000 houses, that’s 18 billion nails. • Best on-time delivery performance – nails you can count on getting when you and your customers need them. • Highest quality and ongoing QC program – products and production monitored by CMI company staff. • No hidden surcharges or fees required to get the nails that you had ordered and should get at the price agreed to. Tariffs are broken out […]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: DON’T YOU WISH YOUR NAIL SUPPLIER COULD SAY… Dear Valued Customer; 99% OF DECEMBER ROOFING NAIL ORDER SHIPPED ON TIME or 96% OF JANUARY ROOFING ORDERS SHIPPED ON TIME We take our position as the leading importer of roofing nails seriously, and we shipped almost all nail containers on time, spared no cost, had to use “Premium Freight” to accomplish this, but we met our goals and supported our customers. Never asked a customer to pay a freight surcharge to mitigate freight, and shipped at the agreed upon price. CHINESE LUNAR NEW YEARS WARNING Lunar New Years […]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Price Increase Announcement – ButtonKap Tools & Fasteners  Dear Valued Customer;  2020 was a year for the books, so thank you for your continued loyalty as a valued customer of ours. Several market factors have increased our costs over the past 12 months, including exchange rates as well as inflated steel and shipping costs. ButtonKap has done its best to mitigate much of these increases and keep them from being passed along, but cannot continue to do so. Effective with orders shipped after February 15th, we will be adjusting the pricing on all ButtonKap products in the […]