Made in Eastern Iowa: One company behind the liquid trend in roofing – KCRG

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (KCRG) Alan Benson has been a roofing consultant for 35 years. He is now the president of Triton Incorporated in Cedar Rapids, a small company that is riding out a trend of liquid solutions for roofing issues that come up.

"We provide a liquid membrane that has no waste, it's spray-applied so there's no waste," said Benson. "The leftover is left in the drum of material that can be used on a future job so we're not filling our landfills full of waste. We're light weight. The material is only eight ounces a square foot so we're able to install on top of existing roofs without having to tear off."

Benson and the staffers at Triton walked us through the tour of their facility, a two-building setup on 33rd Street Drive SE, just off First Avenue. One building is an office and the other is a manufacturing structure where everything is made.

Materials and the tools, an element that is a bit unusual in the business.

"Roof liquid manufacturers in our industry only produce the liquid so you have to buy the technology from somewhere else," said Dustin Brooks, who oversees the company's sales.

Products include the TRITOflex, the TRITOtrowel and TRITOtherm. The TRITOflex is the most recognizable, primarily as a roof restoration product.

"We are pretty proud to represent Cedar Rapids on a global scale," said Brooks. "Our product is used from the Air Force bases in Alaska, the Navy bases in California, the Panama Canal, the mines in South Africa, the jungles of Malaysia, Australia, Ireland it's really cool this solution is being used all throughout the world."

On the late April morning when we visited Triton, the company set up a gravity and product-based experiment. From about 20 feet, they dropped a watermelon with the TRITOflex material sprayed onto it to demonstrate the product's strength under the duress of force and gravity.

This makes for good television but also demonstrated the confidence the company has in the product as more roofing solutions are trending towards a product like this.

"The liquid-applied membranes and coating are gaining more and more popularity in the roofing industry," said Benson. "Right now, theyre about 7% of the market and we see the growth to be in 30 to 35% of the market in the next ten years as they grow in popularity."

http://www.tritonwp.com

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