CMI NEWS & ANNOUNCEMENTS

Carriers’ on-time reliability falls to record lows in November Carriers add boxes, but no swift end to equipment shortage THE GLOBAL SUPPLY CHAIN IS BROKEN   There are 20 ships anchored off Los Angles waiting a week to get unloaded, but there is no dock space available due to the mass volumes of containers coming in to the US Market. These ships average 22,000 containers each, that’s over 400,000 containers waiting to unload.  Imports from China show a  21% increase in containers over 2019, and mostly compressed to ship all in 7 months. Need a mattress, used to get it […]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Continental Materials Announces Richard Kasper II as Contractor Specialist – Underlayments in the Florida Market January 18, 2021 Abington, PA (1/18/2021) – Continental Materials, Inc. (CMI) is happy to announce that Richard Kasper II has joined CMI in the role of Contractor Specialist – Synthetic Roof Underalyments providing sales and technical support in all Florida market areas. “We are excited to add Richard to the CMI team with his more than 10 years of industry experience, his background in commercial and residential roofing, as well as contractor and distribution sales. Richard will be a strong asset to CMI in this new […]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Container Update  Dear Valued Customer; ACTIONS HAVE CONSEQUENCES “Deal with Honest and Transparent Partners”  Many nail importers have taken to “drastic actions” in order to curtail losses and are not meeting their obligations of shipping nail orders/ containers as contractually agreed to. These actions would appear to violate the basic tenants of an agreement between buyer and seller to deliver material at an agreed upon price at an agreed upon time. CMI is the largest direct container importer of roofing nails into the US. We ship enough nails each month to roof approximately 80,000 houses. Additionally, CMI […]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Urgent Nail Update Dear Valued Customer; YOUR NAIL CONTAINER WILL BE LATE  If you placed an order in the early fall and your container was to ship in December it will most likely be 30 – 45 days late. If your order was to ship in January for March delivery it could be 6 to 8 weeks late, as the container shortage will mean many January loads wont ship, and then they will have to wait till the plants reopen On March 1. As we have been warning for the past few months the supply chain is […]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Price Increase SecureGrip, WeatherWarrior, SecureWrap Products and Dual Logo products, Including Self Adhered Nationwide Dear Valued Customer; Due to the stark increase in resin and in shipping costs CMI will increase the price on all of the following products; effective on the following dates: All Warehouse Shipments Effective 2/1/21 All Container Shipments Ex. Plant Effective 3/1/21 – Regardless of order date.   All SecureGrip Products – from 4% to 8% SecureGripPro SecureGrip25 SecureGrip+ SecureGripMax SecureGrip PSMax All WeatherWarrior Products – from 5% to 8% WeatherWarrior WeatherWarrior BLACK SecureWrap House Wrap – from 11% to 18% SecureWrap 150 Drainage/Stuccowrap […]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Price Increase Announcement – Fiberboard Effective:  January 25, 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 January 25, 2021. All currently priced fiberboard orders and job quotes must ship prior to January 25, 2021 to receive pre-increase pricing. We strongly suggest you plan for your inventory needs accordingly. For special job quotes, revised pricing, or any related fiberboard questions, please contact your local CMI Sales […]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Roofing Nail and SecureGrip Synthetic Underlayment Market Update December 08, 2020 Abington, PA (12/08/2020) – ROOFING NAILS Why are your nail containers late? Are they late because your shipper won’t pay the current freight rate or are they late because your shipper does not have an on-site presence to oversee the process, or even a large enough volume to secure container space? This is one of those times when only the most important nail providers are being treated correctly and only if you’re on top of it. You can’t do that from behind a computer screen, you […]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Continental Materials, Inc (CMI) “Introduces X-Weather Warrior Black” August 21, 2020 Abington, PA (08/21/2020) – – Continental Materials, Inc. (CMI) is proud to introduce their new Xtreme-Weather Warrior BLACK. CMI’s synthetic underlayment offering has expanded to offer more options to their customers & end users.   Mark Hinterlong, Director of Underlayments stated “In response to market pressures and the need to continue to innovate, CMI is introducing Xtreme-Weather Warrior BLACK. The Xtreme-Weather Warrior family of products focuses on the price sensitive segment of the market that is looking for “solid performance” at the best possible price. X-Weather Warrior BLACK offers customers a […]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Continental Materials, Inc (CMI) Extends “Golden Ticket Promotion” July 31, 2020 Abington, PA (07/31/2020) – Continental Materials, Inc. (CMI) is extending their “Golden Ticket” promotion until the end of December 2020. “Due to the industry impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic and the incredible excitement around CMI’s “Golden Ticket” promotion we are extending the validity of the found tickets until the end of 2020.” Said Mark Hinterlong, Director of Underlayments for CMI. “We want to ensure that every ticket is found and that every contractor that uses SecureGrip synthetic underlayments has a chance to find & redeem the winning tickets that are still […]