Traditions are the things that define our relation to many things, and often they define our choice. Every country has its own traditions roofing materials. They has formed under impact of many factors like climatic conditions, geographical layout, natural resources, historical development.

For example, in USA, Canada, Finland imitators of traditional shingle are very popular – different types of soft bitumen tile. In the cities of Ukraine and Russia big amount of roofs are folded - zinc-coated and coppered. During tens of years here was no choice of materials, and consumer income was low. This is why most of out-of-town houses where zinc-coated and covered by asbestos-cement sheets. With pass of time metal tile acclimates here.

It is hard to find metal tile in Europe. For example, in Germany metal tile covers only 3% of houses. Natural tile is most popular there (80%), second place goes to natural slate. Europeans believes that using expensive natural materials is cheaper than using cheap imitators.