Since 1988, Central States Manufacturing has manufactured high-quality metal panels and trim for roofing, siding, and buildings. What started in a small plant in Rogers, Arkansas, has grown into 11 plants across most of the United States, serving 1,000's of distributors and contractors. 

Our steel is engineered with multiple layers of protection to defend against fading, rusting, and denting and has been tested in the harshest environments to perform above industry standards. With Central States metal, you can be assured of quality with Lifetime Warranties and customer service that goes above and beyond. We make doing business with us easy and we take care of you when things go wrong.

As a 100% employee owned business, we are partners in the success of Central States and our customers. Each Employee Owner works for the good of the business goals because we all have a stake in the game. With this, we become partners in your business, because together, we can do anything.

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Serving Your Business Needs

We believe in keeping business simple and keeping partnerships alive. Your business' success is as important to us as our own success. We live this in our customer promise: "Right. On Time. Every Time." and in our goal of making "ravings fans" of every customer. 

We do this by being ready, available, and responsive to your needs. We stay with you every step of the way and work together to ensure constancy, clarity, and accuracy in our work, our words, our production, and our delivery. And, if something does go wrong, we are there with you through it with an investigative procedure internalized to ensure we do better each and every day. 

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Tools and Resources

Customer Portal: Central Link

Central Link is your link to everything Central States, saving your business time and money in looking up products, quoting, ordering, and tracking product deliveries. Customers can also set up their customers with Central Link accounts, add specific pricing for each customer account, and provide access for them to order directly. 

Best of all Central Link is provided to our customer at no charge to them and training is available from your Central States salesperson.

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Visualize Metal Roofing and Siding on Your Project

The visualizer is an elegant digital tool for contractors and distributors to showcase Central States metal in real time. Central States’ wide selection of colors and panel profiles can be added to a collection of sample homes or directly to an uploaded photo of the actual project structure. This sleek and beautiful tool provides you with a showcase piece to present to customers during their inspiration and decision process. 

With the Visualizer, from Central States, you can create visuals in a matter of seconds and eliminate the need for printed color charts spread across a table.

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Roof Estimation/Takeoff: Roofing Passport

Roofing Passport is a digital tool for contractors and distributors to produce roof estimates and takeoffs quickly and accurately. Developed in partnership with Sherwin-Williams, Roofing Passport allows you to quickly create a roof lookup, select panels and trim, and output diagrams, measurements, and material lists to create your customer quotes and orders. 

If you are a contractor or distributor who is looking for a simpler metal roof estimation process, with precise measurements, and downloadable material lists and documents, you need to try out Roofing Passport.

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Products and Services

Metal Roofing

Central States quality metal roofing is a reliable and long-lasting solution that you can trust when supplying your customers with roofing solutions. Central States offers exposed fastener, hidden fastener, and standing seam options, including needed metal accessories. Our metal roofing products provide superior protection against the elements and are highly energy efficient and sustainable as they are made from mostly recycled material, are 100% recyclable, and last for years longer than traditional shingles.

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Metal Siding

Metal siding has become an increasingly sought-after option for buildings of all kinds thanks to its versatility, variety of design, and ease of installation. Central States siding panels offer the same high quality, durability, and color selections that our roofing panels have been known for. Innovation and style continue at Central States with our latest launch of Board & Batten in the Eastern U.S., offering a new style option and realistic direct-print wood grain colors.

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Metal Buildings: PEMB

At Central States, we offer custom building designs for metal building projects across a wide array of industries. Central States Building Works division offers fully designed top-quality custom metal building kits along with expert drawings and timely delivery for your customer's construction projects. We work with you and your customer every step of the way to ensure the project is created to spec’ and ready to ship on time.

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Storage and Multi-Story Metal Buildings

Central States Building Works provides a design and material-only building package for single-story self-storage facilities. We provide rapid quoting, permit drawings, and kits delivered to your job site.

Elevate Structures, a national metal building subcontractor and leader of innovation and design for the self-storage industry, provides multi-story self-storage, multifamily, hotel, and student housing structures. We have solid relationships with general contractors, engineers, and architects across the country to get your project rolling. 

Our patented Alpha Framing System is a high-performance framing solution designed to withstand wind, shear, and gravity loads. Made up of pre-assembled light gauge columns and beams, this system offers a cleaner, faster, and stronger alternative to traditional framing methods.

Learn about Elevate Structures and the Alpha Framing System.

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