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put a deck out in the back.’”
OMG Roofing Products, which man-
ufactures and supplies roofing fasten- ers, adhesives, and rooftop drains, pipe supports, and solar mounts, as well as proprietary installation technology for the flat-roofing market; and FastenMas- ter, which develops fastening and adhe- sive products used by remodelers, deck builders, residential framers, home builders, and floor installers, both ben- efited from this environment.
And during a time of global supply- chain issues in 2021 and 2022, “we grew out of control, and we couldn’t keep up,” McGovern said. “These last two years have been record years for the company because of the demand. It’s finally starting to settle, but we’ve been under the gun to produce as much as possible, as fast as possible, for probably two and a half years.”
Kolvek recalls it all vividly. “For a period there, we were on 24/7 for two months, just to try to put a dent in it. It was brutal.”
OMG is no stranger to growth spurts. After launching in 1981 as Olympic Fasteners, by 1987 it was manufacturing 100 million fasteners a year. In 1993, the company became Olympic Manufacturing Group — hence the OMG acronym — and in
“We’re not making basic drywall screws or something like that. If we have a
new product, it’s got to have a feature, a benefit,
a patented intellectual property, and something the customer wants.”
1997, it was acquired by Handy & Harman, which was later taken over by a public company called Steel Part- ners. Throughout its history, OMG has grown about 10% a year, on aver- age, through organic growth, constant product development, and a series of acquisitions.
Today, OMG boasts more than
650 employees — about 450 of them at its Agawam campus, which spans 480,000 square feet over a half-dozen buildings — and records about $400 million in annual sales. Its three
other plants are located in Addison, Ill., Charlotte, N.C., and Rockford, Minn., in addition to field salespeople located across the U.S. and overseas. The company estimates that around 65% of all commercial, industrial, and institutional buildings in the U.S. that have been built or reroofed within the past 25 years have one or more of its products on their roof.
“The good news about roofing is, people need roofs,” McGovern said. “So if you have a decent building,
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This flat roof will use OMG’s patented heat-induction system, which requires no screws to pierce the membrane.
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