ICFF organizers say a record number of attendees visited the Jacob K. Javits Center, May 14-17 for the furniture show’s 2016 edition. The show also had 130 new exhibitors and 587 returning brands and pavilions, for a 30 percent larger footprint.

Wilsonart, a manufacturer of decorative engineered surfaces, has chosen Stephen Marchio of the College for Creative Studies as the winner of its Student Chair Design Competition.

Tightening the joint with new types of fasteners is on the radar for wood manufacturers. The new breed of hardware requiring unique machining of panel and solid wood is shaping up to be a top joinery story for IWF 2016 in August.

Celebrity cook Rachael Ray formally launched new upholstered furniture and laminate casegoods in the Rachael Ray Home Collection, being produced by Samson Marketing's Legacy Classic and Craftmaster Furniture divisions.

Winners of the ICFF Editors’ Awards, recognizing the best and most innovative furnishing designs, were announced at the show, which closed

U.S. home improvement retailer Lowe's Companies received approval for the purchase of the Canadian home improvement company Rona.

The Commerce Department has reported a 6.6 percent increase in new housing starts to an annual rate of 1.17 million units. The increase is good news after March’s 9.4 percent drop.

Rangate shows a CNC router milling out the pockets for the Omni Joint joinery system on window sash components, and shows a corner piece get assembled in real time.

A study found small patches of tropical forest regrown spontaneously in former pastures are drastically reducing atmospheric carbon, without the costs of replanting trees. Ten countries could account for 95 percent of the carbon storage potential, led by Brazil, Colombia, Venezuela and Mexico, with major impact in just 20 years.

West Ohio Tool continues to refurbish its existing machine tools, including new machine and software from Walter for processing PCD cutting tools.