Sonny Arwood, president and CEO of Ohio-based Fluid Applied Roofing, spoke with us about key trends and market insights. With experience as a contractor, manufacturer, and in growing his own business, Arwood shares useful perspective and lessons learned over his long career.

Building owners are increasingly looking to roof restorations to extend the lives of their existing roofs, and it is an investment that can deliver big returns. But not every roof is a good candidate for a restoration.

In watching some other companies, Nicholas Bennett learned some hard lessons that he is applying to his own business. As he sees it, that means putting a priority on having the right crew members in place and not overextending their reach.

AMPP is teaming up with the Master Painters Institute (MPI) for the second annual MPI Commercial Coatings Summit, which unites different areas from across the commercial coatings industry while providing opportunities to get the latest information on current issues.

With a focus on challenges and opportunities in the commercial coatings industry, CoatingsPro Magazine is bringing leaders in the commercial sector together with the 2022 CoatingsPro Contractor Conference.

Considering the centuries-long history of roof coatings, silicone might seem like a small part of the timeline. However, silicone has made quite the splash in its short lifetime. With a long list of impactful economic and environmental benefits, silicone has quickly become one of the most popular roofing solutions.

For roofing, elastomeric materials can provide a variety of benefits.

SOPREMA, Inc., a leading manufacturer of total solutions for building envelopes, produces commercial roof coating products for various applications, including asphaltic modified bitumen, BUR, and metal roofing systems.

An audit was coming for this wild rice manufacturer in Minnesota, and a cold call three years prior turned successful for the client and contractor alike.

SOPREMA, Inc., a leading manufacturer of commercial building envelope materials, has a complete collection of silicone and acrylic products applicable to many roofing systems.

This roof rehab for a veterans hospital took a 6-person crew from JR & Co. three weeks to complete.

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Wedge Roofing first worked on this roof 38 years ago, and they continue to maintain that relationship. Their work on this latest iteration in 2019 included silicone coating, winning first place in CoatingsPro’s Contractor Awards Program.

A new art school in Houston, Texas, required several different types of waterproofing. A local crew worked carefully — even artfully — with other trades to help seal the school’s walkable green roof, parking garage, plaza, and much more

The roof of the massive AAA corporate regional office in Costa Mesa, Calif., was restored with a coated spray polyurethane foam (SPF). The coatings contractor came up with a clever way to keep overspray off the surrounding cars while the facility remained operational.