The Florida Roofing & Sheet Metal Contractors Association’s 96th annual convention takes place June 27-29 at the Gaylord Palms resort.

Metal roofing can last up to 50 years or more and is fully recyclable, officials with the Metal Roofing Alliance point out.

The complaint, filed this week with the World Trade Organization in Geneva, says that the 25 percent tariff on imported steel and 10 percent levy on imports of aluminum were improper.

Denver-based sheet metal and HVAC products manufacturer and wholesaler Hercules Industries has purchased Passage Supply Co. Terms were not disclosed.

S-5 has added Unistrut Ohio to the standing-seam metal roofing clamp manufacturer’s distribution network.

If the U.S. enacts the steep steel and aluminum tariffs the president announced a week ago, European Union officials say the 28-nation bloc will respond with increased taxes on a raft of U.S.-made products, including HVAC equipment.

A phase II expansion of the Destin Commons shopping center in Destin, Florida, added 100,000 square feet to the 500,000-square-foot center as well as Petersen’s Snap-Clad metal roof panels.

Longstanding leaks at a U.S. Air Force base clubhouse near Marysville, California, are fixed, thanks to an area mechanical contractor and a metal roof made by McElroy Metal.