Granite State Cover and Canvas, Inc. mainly makes truck tarpaulin (tarp) systems to cover loads, but its custom canvas projects include everything from privacy fencing to boat and pool covers. Company President Dave has steered the business into huge growth over the past few years and recently into a large new facility which has expanded its capabilities. Despite an extensive product line, Granite State Cover is adding new items and will continue to grow.

Molded Polyurethane – what is it? You’ve likely encountered it more than you think: it is the leading product of choice for making roller-skate wheels, golf ball covers, bowling balls, scuba fins, and more. It is also popular in the industrial world, used in mining, agriculture, material handling, and the oil and gas businesses.

Throughout 2016, Empire Roofing Corporation has earned a spot as one of the most elite contractors in the nation thanks to a commitment to long-term roofing system performance and high quality workmanship. Firestone Building Products has presented Empire Roofing Corporation with the 2017 Platinum Master Contractor, Inner Circle of Quality award, the platinum award, and particularly noteworthy, the coveted Harvey Firestone Award, which are the commercial roofing industry’s most distinguished honours.

With headquarters in Glen Mills, Pennsylvania and sales and service locations from Maine to Florida and west to the Mississippi, DDP Roofing Services Inc. provides emergency service and repairs, preventative maintenance and a complete arsenal of reroofing systems and warranties.

Contract Industrial Tooling is celebrating thirty years of offering top-notch design, manufacturing, alteration and repair of cabs, canopies, lift gates, shipping containers and racks and medical therapy tables. The company is a leader, serving some of the most sophisticated manufacturing clients in the world.

In August of 2016, Thomas Industrial Coatings celebrated its 25th anniversary. Don Thomas is the president and owner of Thomas Industrial Coatings, but he began his career in the industry as a sand vacuum worker. Dane McGraw, director of business development, joined us for the interview, and we spoke of the company’s rise to become one of the best in the business. Thomas Industrial Coatings (TIC) is located 30 miles south of St. Louis, Missouri and employs nearly two hundred people.

For twenty years, Mercer Group International has been serving the needs of the New Jersey area with its state-of-the-art recycling capabilities that focus mainly on construction and demolition debris. Its goal is to keep as much material out of landfills as possible. It also operates a transfer station and recycles paper and cardboard products.

Hodess Cleanroom Construction, with its head office in Massachusetts, is a leader in cleanroom construction, management and design and is not afraid to ask the tough questions in its search for better solutions.

In an era of astounding technological advances, smart building materials have industry insiders rethinking the basics—and potentially transforming age-old ways of doing things.