If You Can Draw it, They Can Make it

By Johns Manville. 

The Lewiston Johns Manville manufacturing facility takes pride in their custom specialty products. 

Johns Manville’s manufacturing facility in Lewiston, Maine offers a wide range of specialty products for all kinds of roofing systems. They produce expansion joints, edge metal systems, vents, drains and more. This facility is notable for its part in the invention of the Expand-O-Joint solution by Frank Patry. After Frank noticed cracking problems with his father’s BUR roof, he invented the Expand-O-Joint and then founded the company HEFCO with his brothers, Harvey and Earnest. In the mid 1970s, Johns Manville purchased HEFCO and continues to work out of the facility to this day. 

Lewiston fabricates both Expand-O-Flash expansion joint covers for roofs and Expand-O-Gard expansion joint covers for vertical wall applications. It is the only JM facility that manufactures this product line. Both products are designed to allow thermal expansion and contraction and seismic activity and can be used for vibration and dust control. To better understand their functions, check out this video on our YouTube™ Channel. 

JM offers products in standard sizes for joints up to 8” wide and can custom fabricate for expansion joints as large as 36” wide. Both products are certified air barriers. We offer an Expand-O-Flash style to suit all roof membranes and offer a full line of standard directional change transitions. Our Lewiston facility can also custom fabricate directional change transitions to suit most any condition. Our motto has always been “If you can draw it, we can make it.” In today’s smart phone enabled world, we have adjusted that to “If you can take picture of it, we can draw it for you”. 

Our Lewiston Facility takes pride in having in-house Customer Service and Technical Support teams. Steve Grant, Accessories Technical Specialist, describes the care each order is handled with, “When I talk with a customer, I can assure them that the information they convey to me for their custom-made product is accurately transferred to the fabricators who work just a few feet from where I work.” 

The personal touch of the customer service team allows for fast turnaround on customer’s needs. “Our standard product is typically shipping out in a week or less. Our made to order and custom-made products are shipping in about three to four weeks,” Grant explains. Large volume orders of large size products ship in about six weeks, an impressive timeframe when considering design requests may start from a simple drawing or photograph. 

In addition to having passionate service teams, the Lewiston Facility is an OSHA VPP star work site with over twenty years without a lost time injury. They are also ISO 14001 certified for their environmental management systems. 

The full catalog of standard products can be viewed here. You can also see our complete product line here. 

Original article source: Johns Manville