Nowadays in North America more than 70% of roofing accessories are imported from China, South East Asia & European countries.And there is reason why it is happening. Big Roofing materials and wholesalers do not willing invest capital to building production line for roofing accessories with small market volume. So most of the brands sourcing those components from their local suppliers in USA/Canada, which in most of the cases also do not produce them. It is expansive to manage production in Noth America, due to high labor cost and investment. Oftentimes accessories are custom made with small sales volumes which doesn’t make economic sense to invest and launch automated production lines. So in the end roofers as a end customers pays and keep all players in the industry earn their margins. Here is typical roofing accessories product supply chain, which represent in the market nowadays.

Our vision that in the new era of digitization, will be impossible to build a long term business model simply doing trading, being just as intermediate party. That’s why we decided bring to the market digital supply chain approach, and help roofing contractors became more successful in their sourcing and purchasing. CANLEAF platform can ease and shorten supply process of roofing accessories with value added services.