After a testing and development cycle and a bit of industry controversy, PMC Industries has announced that the U.S. Patent Office issued a patent for their snow-retention product, the AceClamp Color Snap (#9,850,661).
Earlier this year, industry forums were hearing rumors of a conflict between AceClamp and a competitor offering a similar product. “Although the products serve a similar purpose, their design couldn’t be more different,” claims Alan Wasley, CEO of PMC Industries, the parent company of AceClamp. “Our design approach is completely new and addresses many of the pain points that professional roofers struggle with in the field, most notably of which are the set-up times and labor-costs roofers experience when installing competitive products.”
The Color Snap product is a snow-retention system that utilizes a snap-fit design. The product ships to roofers with fully assembled, ready-to-install components and snap-in ice clips. Color Snap is available for either standing seam metal roofing or membrane roofing with a variant of the product known as Color Snap-M. According to AceClamp, both varieties offer installation flexibility, installation ease, and help to reduce labor costs by minimizing preparatory tasks.
“We aimed to reduce setup, installation times and labor costs, and we’ve received responses from our clients on how cost-saving the Color Snap product can be. We’re happy to let roofers, architects, and engineers know that Color Snap is available for delivery and that they can count on AceClamp to continue producing solutions and products for the roofing industry.”