Metal is taking more of the roofing market as competition grows

Three years ago, Everlast Roofing of Bridgton heard a competitor was about to buy a machine that would allow it to cut and shape sheet metal for roofs. So it took a leap and beat them to it. Everlast bought a $600,000 roll former, a 160-foot-long conveyer-and-piston contraption that crimps interlocking ribs into 3-foot-wide sheets of roofing metal. Back then, Everlast's granddaddy roll former was the only one in Maine, and the edge it gave the company was significant. Overnight, Ever ...