CMI NEWS & ANNOUNCEMENTS

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 […]

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 […]