New guidelines offer valuable safety, operation and maintenance procedures

Project leads Strickland Construction to purchase roll former

NFBA studies look at post-frame market, metal roll forming industry

An updated listing of jobsite tools and equipment.

Roll former owner/operators insist the key to success is related to their pre-purchase research

The list of metal roofing roll former manufacturers/distributors from our annual roll former issue of Metal Roofing Magazine.

Homeowners want the best product

Did you know you could curve a panel with your portable roll former? Bear Lake Roofing of Rice Lake, Wis., has done it on several occasions, most recently on a barn re-roof project.

For those roofing contractors who have made the financial commitment to purchase a roof panel roll former, there are plenty of factors to wade through before writing out that check. A major decision revolves around purchasing a single-profile machine or a multi-profile machine. There are manufacturers who make only single-profile roll formers and some who make only multi-profile machines. Many offer both.

By looking at a cross section of the troublesome panels, Ewald Stellrecht discovered panel manufacturers were making the male leg shorter than the female leg so it would fit underneath. The measurements of the male leg made it impossible to properly seam the panels.