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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Price Increase Announcement – Asphalt Effective:  July 11, 2016 Western/Mid-Western Regions Dear Valued Customer; Please be advised that due to rising asphalt and other costs, the price of all Continental Materials and Hot Stuff (distributed by Continental Materials) asphalt products will increase between 5% and 7% in the Western region and some

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Price Increase Announcement – Fiberboard Effective:  July 1, 2016 Nationwide  Dear Valued Customer; Please be advised that there will be a price increase of 5% to 10% on all fiberboard and cant strip/tapered edge products nationwide effective with shipments July 1, 2016. All currently priced fiberboard orders and job quotes must ship

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: ARTC Asphalt Plant Sold… Abington, PA (04/16) – The ARTC Asphalt plant in Douglassville, GA has been sold. CMI enjoyed a long term relationship with the plant, marketing their BURA throughout the Southeast. CMI also had an equity position in the facility and did our best to help them through a difficult

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: EG Roofing Nail Listing Change – Update 2… Abington, PA (03/16) – Last week we had received a memo from Miami-Dade County, Board and Code Administration Division regarding electrogalvanized (EG) roofing nails. This is a follow up to our previous letters dated March 15, 2016 and March 23, 2016 regarding Dade County

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: EG Roofing Nail Listing Change – Update… Abington, PA (03/16) – Last week we had received a memo from Miami-Dade County, Board and Code Administration Division regarding electrogalvanized (EG) roofing nails. This is a follow up to our previous letter dated March 15, 2016 regarding Dade County nail listings.  I have again

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: EG Roofing Nail Listing Change… Abington, PA (03/16) – Today we received a memo from Miami-Dade County, Board and Code Administration Division regarding electrogalvanized (EG) roofing nails. I have included a copy of the memo for your review. The memo indicates that there has been some third party testing conducted of randomly

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: 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

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: 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

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: 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

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: 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

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: 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