Certain things are important to those of you installing metal roofing. If it’s important to you, it’s important to us — and your suppliers.

A metal roofer installs products the customer expects to provide a long service life. The metal roofer delivers that promise to customers because the metal roofer relies on the promises of suppliers. Reliability is important.

Whether the roofing product is standing seam, shingle, shake and tile facsimiles or even through-fastened panels, metal roofers are responsible for the world’s best, and most personal, roofs. Personal touch is important.

Consumers expect premium products and to have them installed correctly. Installers, in turn, seek out the best products, service and price from their suppliers. So while each metal roof is the result of individualized installation and attention to detail, none of it could happen without manufacturers and suppliers who provide quality products, excellent service and dependable delivery at competitive prices. Thankfully, as metal roofers continue their quest to gobble up market share, they have no shortage of manufacturing partners to help them along the way.

The Metal of Honor program was created to allow the metal roofing installers an opportunity to honor those manufacturers.

At the 2007 METALCON event in Las Vegas, Metal Roofing Magazine handed out ballots to attendees and encouraged them to vote for their favorite metal roofing industry suppliers. We then included ballots in our December 2007-January 2008 issue. More than 240 companies were nominated by voters, and the top 10 percent of vote recipients — 24 companies in all — comprise the fourth class of Metal of Honor honorees, including 12 four-time winners.

The winners range from growing family-owned firms to international giants. While most of the winners sell metal roofing panels, shingles or coil, the group covers roll formers, paint suppliers and fastener makers.
All have one thing in common: fierce loyalty from their customers.

2008 Winners:

ABC
ABC Supply
AEP Span
ATAS International
BASF
Berridge Manufacturing
Custom-Bilt Metals
Drexel Metals
Englert
Everlat Roofing
Firestone Metal Products/Una-Clad
Kassel & Irons
MBCI
McElroy Metal
MetalForming
Metal Sales
MeTecno-USA Morin Division
MWI Components
NB Handy
New Tech Machinery
Petersen Aluminum
PPG
Sheffield Metals
Triangle Fastener

If there is a company or two you think should be included, make sure to pick up a Metal of Honor ballot at METALCON 2008 in Baltimore, or email: jim.austin@fwpubs.com.