Overview
Malarkey Roofing Products
Malarkey Roofing Products is a United States manufacturer of residential and commercial roofing products. The company was founded in 1956 by Herbert Malarkey. Its mailing address is in Portland, Oregon, and its production facilities are in Oregon, California, Oklahoma and Maryland. Charles Collins is the company president. The Malarkey website carries Amrize branding in its footer, and the site does not describe the relationship further.
The Malarkey range is organized into residential roofing, accessories and low-slope commercial products. The residential line consists of asphalt shingles sold in architectural and designer categories. The shingle names in the Technical Library are Highlander, Vista, Legacy and Windsor. Highlander AR and Vista AR are listed on the manufacturer site as architectural shingles, and both appear in its most popular group. Legacy Scotchgard is listed as an architectural shingle. Windsor Scotchgard is listed in the designer category.
The accessories range includes underlayments, ice and water barriers, starter shingles and ridge shingles. These are the components sold to complete a shingle roof system alongside the main field shingles.
The low-slope commercial range is made up of modified bitumen systems named OmniSeal, Paragon and DuoStik, and a conventional sheet product named Pano. These products are separate from the residential shingle lines covered in the library.
The company states that it pioneered rubberized asphalt shingles. It also states that it was the first manufacturer to use a larger nailing area with a tapered shim, and the first to use upcycled rubber, plastics and smog-reducing granules in its products.
The customers named on the Malarkey site are homeowners, contractors, homebuilders, distributors, and architects and specifiers. The markets served are residential roofing and commercial roofing in the United States. The Technical Library holds four Malarkey shingle product records: Windsor Scotchgard, Legacy Scotchgard, Highlander and Vista, each with its technical data sheet.
Relevant manufacturer history
Herbert Malarkey founded Malarkey Roofing Products in 1956, and the company describes itself as a roofing manufacturer since that year. It has remained a family-built company under the Malarkey name, with Charles Collins serving as president.
The company records several product firsts in its history. It introduced rubberized asphalt shingles, in which rubber is blended into the asphalt used to make the shingle. It was the first to use a larger nailing area with a tapered shim on its shingles. It was also the first to use upcycled rubber, plastics and smog-reducing granules in roofing products.
Over time the product range grew from asphalt shingles to cover accessories such as underlayments, ice and water barriers, starter shingles and ridge shingles. The company also added low-slope commercial products, including the OmniSeal, Paragon and DuoStik modified bitumen systems and the Pano conventional sheet.
The production base is spread across four states: Oregon, California, Oklahoma and Maryland. The Malarkey website now displays an Amrize logo and links to Amrize terms and accessibility pages in its footer.
