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Steel Cost Effect on Nail Pricing…
Abington, PA (03/16) – There have been some very recent spikes in steel prices in China since the end of the Lunar New Year period. While this is being caused by a confluence of factors the simple reality is that most steel production in China is government controlled, and the prices have been at unsustainable low levels for some time. Steel prices have been at a twenty year low.
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Continental Materials Announces Long Term Supply Agreement with MSL - Supporting Fiberboard Demand Across the United States
Abington, PA (12/15) – Continental Materials, Inc. (CMI) had notified its customers that on November 18th Georgia Pacific announced the closing of its fiberboard operations ending a 31 year partnership with CMI shipping hundreds of millions of feet of roofing fiberboard nationwide.
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Continental Materials’ SecureGrip™ Synthetic Roofing Underlayments Approved for Use in Florida – FBC Approval FL18374
Abington, PA (10/15) – Continental Materials, Inc. (CMI) announces that its full line SecureGrip Synthetic Underlayment products are now approved for use in Florida under Florida Building Commission Approval #FL18374 for use as “mechanically attached, woven polypropylene underlayments used as alternatives to ASTM D226, Type I and Type II” roofing felts.
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Continental Materials’ Full Line of SecureGrip™ Synthetic Roofing Underlayments Now T.D.I. Listed – Supporting both Contractors and Building Owners…
Abington, PA (10/15) – Continental Materials, Inc. (CMI) announces that its full line SecureGrip Synthetic Underlayment products are now approved and listed on the Texas Department of Insurance (TDI) list of acceptable alternatives to roof underlayment specified in Chapter 15 of the IBC and Chapter 9 of the IRC. SecureGrip PRO™, SecureGrip25™ SecureGrip PLUS™, and SecureGrip MAX™ products have been tested and evaluated by Intertek for conformance to AC 188 in accordance with ICC standards and testing formats. A Code Compliance Research Report, CCRR 1045, had been completed and issued by Intertek and accepted by TDI as proof of meeting the stringent roofing underlayment requirements. See the link on the CMI website to get to the TDI listing.
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Continental Materials Announces Enhancements to the CMI SecureGrip™ Line of Synthetic Underlayments – Plus Improved Warrantees that Support the Contractor and Home Owner…
Abington, PA (5/15) – Continental Materials, Inc. (CMI) announces that it has upgraded its entire line of Synthetic Roof Underlayments since the beginning of 2015 by including even better U.V. resistance packages and the implementation of additional non-slip technologies. These enhancements improve on an already well accepted product offering that will continue to differentiate CMI products in a very crowded marketplace and support roofing contractors with premier roofing underlayments across the US.