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Violation Tracker Summary for Mega-Scandal
Mega-Scandal: Defective Building Materials
Description: This list shows cases in which companies paid penalties of $25 million or more relating to the the production and sale of defective building materials.
Penalty Total since 2000: $2,003,625,558
Number of Penalty Records: 15
Note: The totals here are adjusted to account for the fact that each current parent's entries may include both agency records and settlement announcements for the same case; or else a penalty covering multiple locations may be listed in the individual records for each of the facilities. They are also adjusted to reflect cases in which federal and state or local agencies cooperated and issued separate announcements of the outcome. Duplicate or overlapping penalty amounts are marked with an asterisk in the individual records list below.
| Top 10 Current Parent Companies | Total Penalty $ | Number of Records |
| Knauf | $1,000,000,000 | 1 |
| Saint-Gobain | $103,900,000 | 1 |
| LL Flooring Holdings | $93,000,000 | 3 |
| Weyerhaeuser | $82,000,000 | 1 |
| Standard Industries Inc. | $60,000,000 | 1 |
| Pella Corporation | $34,750,000 | 1 |
Individual Penalty Records:
Click on the company or penalty amount for more information on each case. Click on the current parent name to reach the summary page for that parent company.
| Company | Current Parent | Current Parent Industry | Primary Offense Type | Year | Agency | Penalty Amount  |
| Knauf Plasterboard Tianjin | Knauf | building materials | product safety violation | 2013 | private lawsuit-federal | $1,000,000,000 |
| Taishan Gypsum Co. Ltd. | | | product safety violation | 2019 | private lawsuit-federal | $248,000,000 |
| Ipex Inc. | | | product safety violation | 2011 | private lawsuit-federal | $125,000,000 |
| CertainTeed Corp. | Saint-Gobain | building materials | product safety violation | 2014 | private lawsuit-federal | $103,900,000 |
| Building Products of Canada Corp. | | | product safety violation | 2012 | private lawsuit-federal | $100,000,000 |
| Weyerhaeuser Company | Weyerhaeuser | building materials | consumer protection violation | 2000 | private lawsuit-state | $82,000,000 |
| W.R. Grace & Co. | Standard Industries Inc. | building materials | environmental violation | 2008 | private lawsuit-federal | $60,000,000 |
| Banner Supply Co. | | | product safety violation | 2013 | private lawsuit-federal | $54,475,558 |
| NIBCO Inc. | | | product safety violation | 2019 | private lawsuit-federal | $43,500,000 |
| Lumber Liquidators Inc. | LL Flooring Holdings | housewares and home furnishings | product safety violation | 2018 | private lawsuit-federal | $36,000,000 |
| Pella Corporation | Pella Corporation | building materials | product safety violation | 2019 | private lawsuit-federal | $34,750,000 |
| Lumber Liquidators Inc. | LL Flooring Holdings | housewares and home furnishings | product safety violation | 2020 | private lawsuit-federal | $30,000,000 |
| IKO Manufacturing | | | consumer protection violation | 2019 | private lawsuit-federal | $30,000,000 |
| Uponor Inc. | | | product safety violation | 2015 | private lawsuit-federal | $29,000,000 |
| Lumber Liquidators Holdings Inc. | LL Flooring Holdings | housewares and home furnishings | investor protection violation | 2019 | DOJ_CRIMINAL | $27,000,000 |
