Sustainable Manufacturing

Regardless of the current tough economic conditions, both consumers and professionals continue to seek environmentally responsible materials for their building and design choices.

Core selection is often a compromise between performance characteristics and price. There are three categories of cores: veneer, composite and hybrids or “combination cores”.

The CARB extension for distributors, importers, fabricators, and retailers of finished goods is through Dec. 31, 2012, and affects businesses that use HWPW-VC panels to make finished goods, as well as businesses that distribute or sell these goods in California.

Lowering VOC content in coatings is a must in today’s green market place.

Wright Architectural Millwork finished a reclaimed wood project near Boston. beams from a California factory were milled down to a tongue and groove flooring product and applied to walls and a bench.

DIRTT Environmental Solutions has earned recognition for its sustainable modular MDF wall panels.

Portland’s Grove LLC has mushroomed from two to 18 employees making custom- and limited-run cases for the iPad and iPhones.

A new professional credentials program for custom cabinetmakers and woodworkers was formally unveiled at the AWFS Fair woodworking show in July. Developed by the Cabinet Makers Association after more than a year of development, this program is integrated to a formal learning cycle and testing system. Completion yields a three-letter acronym that certifies your competency as a cabinetmaker or as a woodworker, at either Certified or Master levels.