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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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,

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