Bad Ass Women of Spray Foam
- By Spray Foam Magazine Staff
- Added on Apr 15, 2025
BAWoSF, Women in the industry changing the face of foam read more
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Real Woman of Spray Foam
- By Spray Foam Magazine Staff
- Added on Nov 07, 2024
A chat with the boss lady Jennifer Lynn Dempsey, President at PMC and Komo Machine Inc. read more
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A Show of Skills
- By Spray Foam Magazine Team
- Added on Sep 13, 2024
Spray Foam Magazine interviewed Blandine Carton, the Executive Vice President of Operations at NCFI Polyurethanes, to uncover how she attained such a position and how her skill set benefits the operational strategies and processes within the organization. read more
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Chemistry for a Sustainable Future
- By Spray Foam Magazine Team
- Added on Jul 15, 2024
Four established women from BASF's spray foam division open up about their established careers! read more
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Enhancing Opportunities
- Added on May 14, 2024
Diversity and inclusion are important to Elastochem as the company recognizes the essential skills that all people bring to the workplace. Focusing on women in construction, Elastochem has a diversified staff with women holding principal management, production, and planning roles within the company. Their clients in Canada and the U.S. have women installers and company owners, who are a great asset to the industry. read more
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A Coffee With Carla
- By Spray Foam Magazine Staff
- Added on Feb 27, 2024
Carla Airey Colinares has a reputation for being a mentor, cheerleader, and inspiration for many in the SPF industry. The Spray Foam Magazine team sat down with Carla and over a cup of coffee, discussed the importance of building a stronger community, listening to others, and how she is supporting women who pursue a career in the spray foam industry. read more
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Spraying Success
- By Ashley Brooks
- Added on Jan 16, 2024
Jennifer Hristovski is the Marketing Director and partner at SprayWorks Equipment in Brimsfield Ohio, and the author of the children’s book My Dad is a Foamer, published in October 2023.* To write the book, she drew inspiration from her own childhood as the daughter of a spray foam professional. read more
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Build It Tight
- By Spray Foam Magazine Team
- Added on Nov 30, 2023
The Blower Door Test, often referred to as a pressure test, defines the air tightness of the building and helps detect any air leakage in the building’s envelope. This test has been around for decades but why has it become predominant in recent times? Let's find out! read more
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Heat Shields and Beyond
- By Danielle Macdonald
- Added on Sep 27, 2023
Technicians at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, have applied spray foam as part of the thermal protection system to the Artemis III Launch Vehicle Stage Adapter (LVSA) for NASA’s Space Launch System rocket.. The SPF insulation is flexible enough to move with the rocket, but rigid enough to handle the extreme pressures and temperatures as SLS accelerates from zero to 17,400 mph and soars to more than 100 miles above Earth in just eight minutes. Spray Foam Magazine spok read more
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Roofing Lifespans Unveiled
- By Mason Knowles, Mason Knowles Consulting & Will Lorenz, General Coatings Manufacturing Corp.
- Added on Jul 30, 2023
The last 30 years have brought amazing advances in commercial roof technology. New products, processes, maintenance schedules, protective coatings, and more should have roofs lasting longer than ever before. However, while warranties have indeed increased from 5 years to 10 years to 15 to 20 and even 30 years, commercial roofs are replaced, on average, every 10 to 15 years. This is the same lifespan as 20 to 30 years ago. read more
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Last One’s Standing
- By Spray Foam Magazine Team
- Added on Jul 30, 2023
As Hurricane Ian’s threatening force geared up to be a direct hit on the Gulf Coast of Florida, Governor Ron DeSantis said, “Pray for people,” adding that Ian was of “historic” proportions. Floridians prepared as best they could for a storm that was so colossal, the entire state faced warnings about its possible effects. At just past 3 PM on Wednesday, September 28, 2002, Ian slammed into the Southern Gulf Coast as a Category 4 storm, killing 149 people. read more
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Proven Practices to Prevent Wind Damage
- By Robb Smith, RGS CONSULTING
- Added on Jul 30, 2023
The first time witnessing the power of wind, is an eye-opening experience for most in the roofing world. I would estimate that 95 percent or more of all people in the roofing industry have never seen a roof system severely wind damaged, let alone one blown-off by a hurricane. read more
