October 31, 2023 at 1:00 p.m.
Exhibitors on the solely international occasion devoted solely to the appliance of steel in design and building nominated their merchandise in one in all 15 classes for the METALCON Prime Merchandise Award, and attendees voted on web site in Las Vegas for his or her prime three alternative merchandise.
The 2023 METALCON Folks’s Alternative Award winners are:
First Place
Class: Expertise
MetalCoffeeShop – MetalTalk™
MetalTalk™ is a webinar sequence that delivers within the Learn, Pay attention or Watch (RLW) format with content material being introduced to RLW; the one occasion within the steel building providing all three platforms. MetalTalk options trade thought leaders, together with progressive producers, expertise and extra.
“It’s a nice honor for MetalCoffeeShop’s MetalTalk to be named the Folks’s Alternative, stated Heidi Ellsworth, companion with RoofersCoffeeShop® and proprietor of HJE Consulting. “The steel building trade celebrates the perfect of the perfect annually at METALCON, and MetalCoffeeShop is proud to be part of it.”
Second Place
Class: Equipment
S-5! – PVKIT HUR
The S-5! PVKIT HUR is the latest model of the PVKIT photo voltaic mounting attachment for steel roofs. It’s particularly designed to face up to extraordinarily excessive wind uplift forces akin to hurricane-force winds and is the primary steel roof PV mounting system licensed to FM4478, FM Approval’s hardest PV Normal. It was examined and licensed together with Butler’s MR24 standing seam roof and JA Photo voltaic’s module as much as 105 kilos per sq. foot uplift forces and has handed many different stringent checks required for FM4478.
“It’s such a thrill to be acknowledged with this award,” stated Rob Haddock, CEO and founding father of S-5! “The PVKIT HUR (Excessive Uplift Resistance) product and its FM Approval represents one other ‘first’ for our firm and makes steel roofing the popular photo voltaic roof in excessive wind-prone geographies across the globe.”
Third Place
Class: Rollforming gear
CIDAN Equipment Group – XTap & XSpace
The XTAP function revolutionizes conical bending, permitting automated angled positioning of again gauge fingers with the ProLink management system, guaranteeing seamless manufacturing of gutters and copings, good for high-speed manufacturing. For difficult profiles, the XSPACE presents flexibility and comfort. Recessed beneath the bending level, it offers 15mm of extra area, enabling safe folding of hat channels, gutters, and high-pitch drip edge profiles. Outfitted with crowning, it ensures zero angle deviations for lengthy profiles, guaranteeing exact and constant folds. The XSPACE handles complicated geometries effortlessly, offering secure and correct outcomes. Appropriate with F-, FS- or FX-Collection machines.
“We’ve 30+ engineers at our factories who’re at all times asking questions like, ‘What could be higher?’ and ‘What’s subsequent,” stated Ryan King, CIDAN equipment nationwide gross sales supervisor. “Our dedication to ‘Embracing Change’, one in all our core values, propels our innovation ahead. We’re ecstatic to win this award and eagerly look ahead to what’s subsequent!”
To be eligible, merchandise should have been launched to the market after January 1, 2022, and its producer a 2023 METALCON exhibiting firm. Winners have been decided by an digital vote.
“After one in all our busiest and finest reveals ever in Las Vegas, we’re excited to announce our prime three METALCON Folks’s Alternative Award winners,” stated Judy Geller, METALCON vice chairman of tradeshows. “We sit up for seeing what’s in retailer for subsequent 12 months’s showcase of prime merchandise and cutting-edge applied sciences in Atlanta.”
About METALCON
Established in 1991, METALCON is the one annual tradeshow and convention devoted solely to the appliance of steel in design and building. Produced by PSMJ Assets, Inc., in partnership with the Metallic Building Affiliation, METALCON’s success is predicated on a dynamic exhibit corridor, in depth instructional packages and interactive studying alternatives. Subsequent 12 months’s present takes place in Atlanta, Georgia from Oct. 30 to Nov. 1, 2024. For extra data, go to www.metalcon.com.