April 11, 2024 at 9:00 p.m.
By Emma Peterson.
Throughout IRE, we caught up with TRA Solar and Snow for an interview! See what merchandise and packages they’re engaged on!
Again in February, the Espresso Retailers’ crew have been thrilled to hitch exhibitors and attendees on the 2024 Worldwide Roofing Expo (IRE). This three-day occasion is the largest commerce occasion in North America and introduces new tools, data and applied sciences to the worldwide roofing business. Whereas there, Lauren White obtained to meet up with Mindy Dalhquist from TRA Snow and Solar to study what progressive options they introduced with them to their IRE sales space!
TRA is proud to be celebrating their thirtieth 12 months of operations and Mindy is their enterprise growth supervisor. She works with everybody concerned, from architects to contractors to producers to maintain folks secure within the winter. Mindy’s LinkedIn web page explains, “As an AIA HSW CE teacher, I ship enjoyable and academic programs on snow retention design and set up, tailor-made to the wants and pursuits of my purchasers.”
Catching up along with her was the proper strategy to study all of the fascinating issues TRA is engaged on this 12 months. When requested about this, she defined that the most recent product that TRA has developed is the FlashFree Fence. It is a snow retention device that can be utilized on asphalt shingles, slate, simulated slate, or shakes. It’s designed to be fixed to the roof deck on new development tasks. Mindy elaborated, “It is a product that takes the place of a shingle or a tile piece, as an alternative of getting to make the most of that piece of fabric after which screw down by means of it.”
Along with this thrilling new product, Mindy and TRA are engaged on new software program to make it simpler to search out the proper snow retention system for every roof system. She defined, “We’re additionally engaged on some software program at present and are hoping to have a platform the place persons are in a position to log in, buy and do the engineering and all of that within the background on-line.” This program remains to be being developed, nevertheless it’s an thrilling alternative to maintain a watch out for within the subsequent few years!
Watch the complete interview to study extra about TRA Snow and Solar and what they’re rolling out this 12 months!
Emma is a content material intern for the Espresso Retailers and AskARoofer™. When she’s not writing, she enjoys an excellent film evening with associates and attempting to prepare dinner new recipes.