Duro-Last®
2025 in review
By Emma Peterson. Raising a glass to the articles, videos, podcasts and more that made 2025 so memorable! It’s time to change over the calendars again! 2025 is coming to a close and here at The Coffee Shops™, we are excitedly getting ready for 2026. But before we leap ...
The power of prefabrication
By Emma Peterson. How Kelly Roofing tackled wind, access and other project challenges with help from Duro-Last’s custom prefabrication. Meet Kelly Roofing, a Duro-Last Elite contractor and the winner of the 2024 Duro-Last Custom Fabrication Award. To dive further into the project that won the award, Megan Ellsworth hosted Joe ...
The Duro-Last® 2024 Project of the Year
By Emma Peterson. Explore this award-winning project with the team that put it all together behind the scenes. In a new episode of Stories from the Roof, Megan Ellsworth spoke to the incredible team from Duerson Corporation and the Duro-Last manufacturer's representative behind the 135,000-square-foot reroof of Grinnell Mutual Reinsurance ...
Generations of roofers
By Emma Peterson. A conversation with Jason Brandle and Jeff Gottron about how family, hard work and passion built their families’ roofing legacies. In a new episode of Stories from the Roof, Jason Brandle and Jeff Gottron shared a bit about their journeys in the roofing industry. Jason is the ...
Building a transformative website experience
By Emma Peterson. Ken Kelly shares four key ways to boost your business’ web presence. In a new episode of Roofing Road Trips®, Karen Edwards sat down with Ken Kelly, former president of Kelly Roofing and a Duro-Last partner, to talk about why it's so important for contractors to integrate ...
Duro-Last® celebrates opening of new manufacturing facility in Kernersville, North Carolina
Now fully operational, the Kernersville plant enhances Duro-Last’s operational efficiency and expands its capacity to meet growing demand for high-performance commercial roofing systems throughout the Southeast. Duro-Last, a member of the Amrize family of brands and a leading manufacturer of custom-fabricated single-ply roofing systems, celebrated a major milestone Thursday with an ...
Certified sustainable
By Emma Peterson. Inside the certification and engineering that guides Duro-Last's path towards sustainability. Over the last decade, Duro-Last has helped divert over 100 million pounds of PVC from landfills by creating more sustainable roofing systems. In this episode of Roofing Road Trips®, Megan Ellsworth sat down with Tess ...
From leaks to a punch-list free project
By Emma Peterson. Inside the award-winning Clement Elementary roof installation. Every year, Duro-Last highlights the incredible work of their contractors and installers through their Project of the Year Awards. We got the chance to sit down with Alton Rogerson of B&M Roofing and Bill Paynter of Diamond P Building Products ...
Building your network
By Emma Peterson. Join your fellow young professionals at the ultimate roofing event! For many young people entering the roofing industry, it can be a bit overwhelming! There’s a lot to learn and the community is very tight knit. That’s why organizations like the Western States Roofing Contractors Association ...
Developing into the best contractor they can be
By Emma Peterson. Learn how Duro-Last helped Brandon Keck and Scott Crowder become the roofing veterans they are today. One of the many incredible things about the roofing industry is our community’s ability to welcome people from all walks of life into the fold. That’s what our podcast series ...
