REHAU has appointed Amanda Henrickson to the new position of senior sales director for furniture solutions. Reporting directly to the CEO of REHAU Americas, Dr. Thomas Troeger, Henrickson will oversee furniture division sales and customer service teams in the United States and Canada.

UCS Forest Group has pledged to make sustainability a core value and aims to be carbon neutral by 2026 and climate positive by 2030. 

CINCINNATI — The ChemQuest Group, a global consulting firm for the specialty chemicals and materials industry, has launched a new website at chemquest.com.  The site has been tailored to better support communication for ChemQuest’s pillars of expertise: business strategy and transformation, technology development, manufacturing excellence and M&A advisory services, as well as the TraQr interactive dashboard and forecasting tool, newly introduced to the global paints and coatings industry.

For professional tradespeople seeking to elevate their cordless power tool lineup, Festool is hosting a giveaway of some of its cordless tools.

Culpeper Wood Preservers acquires Northeast Treaters in Massachusetts and New York.

A third-generation, family-owned lumber yard in Seneca Falls, N.Y., was destroyed by fire on Sunday, July 3.  Fire departments from four communities responded just after 5:30 p.m. Sunday to find flames shooting from a Ferrara Lumber location in Senaca Falls. The store supplied lumber, cabinetry, and hardware to the region.

Brown Wood Products has acquired the assets of Industrial Wood Products, a supplier of custom wood components to OEM manufacturers based in Windsor, Connecticut.

Cefla Finishing has partnered with Famis Inc., a distributor and manufacturer of industrial chemicals, coatings, and engineered finishing solutions throughout the Southeastern U.S., Caribbean, Central, and South America.

On June 17, 2022, a federal jury in Milwaukee found Man Wah liable for willful trade dress infringement, misappropriation of trade dress, false patent marking, and willful patent infringement related to Raffel's integrated illuminated cup holder for motion furniture.

The Department of Energy recently awarded $39 million in grant funding to 18 universities and labs across the United States that are working to cut down the carbon footprint of various construction materials. The labs are trying to create replacements for things like concrete, wood, insulation, and paneling.