Component Manufacturer Liability Increases with Truss Broker Involvement
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Component Manufacturer Liability Increases with Truss Broker Involvement
- Builders, contractors and lumberyards who buy components are not best served when the component design and manufacturing is undertaken by more than one company.
- "Truss brokers" sell components to build-ers, contractors, and/or lumberyards but maintain no manufacturing facility. They either carry out component design and placement or hire it out to third parties.
- Component manufacturers’ liability risk grows exponentially if they manufacture to designs created by others.
2006 June/July