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Highlight reel of SPFA's 2019 Sprayfoam Show in Daytona, Florida. If you missed it, see what you missed. If you made it, thank you and we hope you see some of the things you most-fondly remember.
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Spray Polyurethane Foam (SPF) and PV systems are increasingly paired together as a joint solution for energy savings. With the continued push toward sustainability and growing movements such as zero net energy (ZNE) construction, SPF and PV systems combine to provide a logical solution to generate renewable energy while conserving the energy used in heating and cooling.
Regardless of whether ZNE is the end goal, SPF and PV combined on the roof can be highly beneficial, but proper installation is key. Here are some technical considerations to ensure optimization of these energy solutions.
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>> Welcome New SPFA Members:
• Applied Roofing Services – Anaheim, CA
• Foam Engineers – Sullivan, MO
• Furrental and Pentapur United Sales, Inc. – Santa Ana, CA
• Spray Foam Hawaii – Kihei, HI
• Victory Polymers Corp. – Houston, TX
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Membership must be in good standing to be included in the printed 2019-2020 Membership Directory and Buyers’ Guide. First proof has been sent out and if you have not paid you will not be included. Any questions, please contact Mickey Riesenberg at michele@sprayfoam.org / 800-523-6154.
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 >>2018-19 SPFA Membership Directory and Buyers' Guide Available Online Members in good standing are listed in this publication. This directory is also available in a digital format. The convenient digital format allows users to navigate and access the directory's content quickly and easily, on the road or in the office. Use the information provided to contact fellow SPFA members and industry partners throughout the year to share ideas, ask questions, or just stay in touch.
>>SPFA Member Benefits
SPFA knows there are lots of organizations out there that would like to have you in their membership. But if you are in, or getting into, the sprayfoam business, we are the place for you. We work hard to represent you well and give you value back for your support. Click here to find out more.
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Attention: Field Exams will not be conducted in Pasadena during the Sprayfoam 2020 Convention
The time has come for us to bring the Field Exams to the contractors! For the past several years, we’ve asked the contractors to come to the site of the SPFA Annual Convention to participate in PCP Field Exams! Now we are bringing them to you by offering them around the country so you can more easily attend and send everyone who is ready to pursue their SPFA PCP Certification for Master Installer!
On February 11-12, 2020 in Pasadena, the PCP Exam Prep Courses and Written Exams will be offered. One complaint we’ve heard in the past from those who took field exams was that they weren’t then able to take an Exam Prep Course on that same day. This schedule will allow folks to get the courses and testing out of the way in Pasadena and then take a field exam at a different time.
Details will be forthcoming on dates and locations! If you have any questions, contact Kelly Marcavage at certdirector@sprayfoam.org.
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SPFA is again exhibiting and speaking at the 2019 Congressional Clean Energy Expo and Policy Forum, hosted by the Environmental and Energy Study Institute (EESI) and co-hosted by the bi-partisan House Renewable Energy & Energy Efficiency Caucus. This event is taking place July 11 in the Rayburn Building on Capitol Hill. The event pulls together all of the highest levels of leadership focusing on energy efficiency and related topics, benefits from attendance of a wide array of lawmakers and their staff, and serves to put attention on the products, services and leading experts on energy, net-zero and environmental sustainability. SPFA’s Rick Duncan will be speaking alongside other expert panelists in the Building Energy Efficiency session at 12:40 PM. A live webcast of the Policy Forum will be streamed at 9:30 AM EDT at www.eesi.org/livecast (wireless connection permitting). Check out the summary from 2018 here, and video of Rick Duncan’s 2018 session on SPF here.
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SPFA along with the constituents of the SPF industry continue to wait for one manufacturer of pest fumigation to complete small-scale testing, the first part of a process that is intended to resolve concerns expressed by the fumigation companies and improve their understanding of building code and SPF insulation. In the meantime, the manufacturers of sulfuryl fluoride fumigation gas have maintained their recommendation to pest contractors that the gas not be used for fumigations in homes that have SPF Unvented Attics until they better understand the venting procedures. SPFA has maintained our position that this is an Unvented Attic issue rather than an SPF issue, but the focus upon SPF persists. Meanwhile, a number of SPF customers have recently, and not unexpectedly, been denied fumigation in their homes on the basis of their SPF UVA. While customers, potentially ranging from 10,000 – 20,000 a year (as 5-10% of the 200,000 annual fumigations in California and Florida alone) prepare to be told that their homes cannot be fumigated to save them from infestation, the industry has been discriminated against and held hostage by the 10-month long odyssey of inaction and non-resolution by the pest industry and its manufacturers. SPFA continues to demand progress on this effort led by the Sprayfoam Coalition of ACC and the fumigant manufacturer. If you, colleagues, or customers experience a termite fumigation denial, or discrimination and mistreatment by traditional inspection and treatment pest companies, please submit the report of the incident to SPFA’s reporting survey here.
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February 11-14, 2020
Pasadena, CA
More details to come.
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Please update your records with our new address:
11 Hope Road, Ste 111, #308
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Graco provides insight into its multi-tiered system to prevent, detect and monitoroff-ratio conditions. This white paper will address possible causes of off-ratio situations and provide details on flow meters, pressure monitoring and facts you need to know when calculating ratio.
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Icynene-Lapolla announced a Platinum Sponsorship with Spray Foam Worldwide (SFWW). The first and only manufacturer selected for a sponsorship, Icynene-Lapolla is supporting the thriving online spray foam contractors community while leveraging a number of unparalleled promotional opportunities.
“We have been active, daily participants in Spray Foam Worldwide’s community since its inception as we recognized immediately the inherent value in a vibrant on- and off-line community of spray foam contractors,” said Doug Kramer, president and CEO of Icynene-Lapolla. “As the community evolves with the introduction of sponsor partnerships, Icynene-Lapolla is proud to be the only manufacturer included.”
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