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I was blessed this past week to travel around the Southeast. In spite of the fact that my business requires that I hit the road regularly and that a lot of the travel is routine and pedestrian, this week’s trips are worthy of note.

Johns Manville (JM), a Berkshire Hathaway company, recently held a groundbreaking ceremony at its new EPDM manufacturing facility in Milan, Ohio. This is a great story for the roofing industry, and I was on hand to cover the news for Roofing Contractor.

BNP Media recently announced a modest partnership with Mike Rowe Works Trades Hub website.

GAF is celebrating 125 years in business and cites “innovation” as the hallmark of their success. I must agree. GAF boasts a long list of innovations that have continuously moved their position in the roofing industry forward.

Like a lot of you out there, I was on vacation last week. We spent a glorious Fourth of July break in northern Michigan.

If steep-slope roofers think it’s tough selling three-tabs to a stingy couple in a bungalow home, then commercial roofers know the challenges of dealing with hardcore industrial clients.

It’s as inevitable as death and taxes. Be a contractor long enough and you’re going to end up selling stuff to your family, friend or house of worship.

I was accused of being a “gadget guy” this week. Not the first time I ever heard that one since I have had a history of leaping on new technologies soon as they emerge - often before I should and very often in ways that I should not.

Having grown up in the plumbing, heating and cooling business in New York, I knew that I couldn’t push my cooling equipment too long out here in Arizona.

I was running a branch of the roofing-oriented distribution firm, JGA Corp., in my hometown of Jacksonville, Fla., when the first generation of popular “algae and fungus resistant” shingles hit the market.