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As a component manufacturer, you enable better building. As a partner to CMs across the country, MiTek does the same — from advanced design software and automated production equipment to innovative and integrated technologies that lead to a more profitable and stable future for your...

Exhibiting in booth 410 at the Building Component Manufacturers Conference and Framers Summit (BCMC FS) on September 20–21 in Indianapolis, Alpine will be highlighting the latest advances designed to make component manufacturers more profitable and competitive. There will be four stations...

At BCMC 2023 Indianapolis, let’s talk shop and start planning your next incremental process re-organization or complete plant makeover. From simple process improvements to extreme plant makeovers, we have the expertise, proven solutions, technology, and field personnel to get the job done...

Vekta is known in the industry for our market-leading Razer V5 Linear Saw, but it’s our culture of innovation that defines our unique product and systems solutions. Today, Vekta’s current system technologies range covers many of the manufacturing processes involved in producing...

Investing in new, or even used, equipment can be a game-changer, but the upfront costs can be daunting. Many vendors are requiring a 50% deposit with the order, even though lag times for delivery of the equipment can run up to nine months or longer. That means your cash outlay that could be used...

My favorite place to meet with a customer is on the job site. Always has been. I started in this industry approximately 20 years ago as a young truss salesman for UFP in Southern California. My training consisted of building trusses in the yard, creating estimates, and completing engineering...

The National Design Standard for Metal Plate Connected Wood Truss Construction, ANSI/TPI 1-2022 has been updated to require a design load check that accounts for a Person Loading of a roof truss chord without structural wood sheathing. As discussed in the ANSI/TPI 1 Commentary, this loading...

We are in month seven and have managed to maintain the schedule, give or take a week. At this stage, I am spending a lot of time walking the site, crawling around the attic, down in the crawlspace, and everywhere else, looking at work and asking questions. In addition, I am watching the schedule...

As the current lab manager of the newly renamed Karen Colonias Research Laboratory, I’m proud to share what our lab does and what Karen meant to us. Our lab is responsible for testing new and existing connector, fastener and Truss plate products in support of our product development...

As we celebrate SBCA/WTCA’s forty years, let’s also recognize the entrepreneurs behind them, especially these twelve who made outstanding contributions. While each of them added something unique, their work was interrelated, and formed the foundation for today’s truss industry....