Components & Sourcing

Wood Dr

Cupping in flooring

Q. I had standard 2-inch wide maple flooring put in our house. Now, almost every piece has developed a little cupping with the edges high enough that it feels like a corrugated surface. What is going on?

Wood Dr

Cupping is creating problems

Q. We manufacture moulding and buy FAS grade lumber that sometimes is cupped edge to edge so much that it gives us problems. Can you please clarify the NHLA Rules, especially paragraphs 14 and 61? Our supplier hides behind these rules. I think we might have improperly graded lumber.

Components & Sourcing

What’s our sustainability story? ‘Waste wood made good’

It’s time we told the truth about composite wood decorative panels.
If you make products from composite wood panels, we have to talk. 
 
We – North America’s producers of particleboard, MDF and decorative TFL panels – have a confession to make. There are some things we haven’t been telling you, about who we really are and what we actually do. 
 
So, in the spirit of “radical transparency,” we’re ready to come clean.