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Sweetgum

Cherry, mahogany, or walnut in disguise?

By Gene Wengert, April 24, 2016 | 7:00 pm CDT

Pricing & Supply

Chernobyl's radioactive pine lumber may be in Europe's supply chain

Pine tree logs from areas surrounding the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster are entering the lumber supply chain in Europe, say local watchdog organizations, who claim government agencies managing the 18-mile Chernobyl Exclusion Zone around the reactor disregard evidence of clear cutting contaminated pine woods.

By Bill Esler, April 24, 2016 | 11:02 am CDT

Project Gallery

Mattiazzi ash wood chair attains a functional first: it stacks 10 high

Sam Hecht, a designer at Industrial Facility, has created a new chair for Italian furniture manufacturer Mattiazzi. The Tronco chair, a stackable item aimed at churches. Hecht, who previously designed the Brancca chair, offers this description of the ash wood chair, launched at this month furniture show in Milan. Tronco appears to be a very basic chair, its seat formed from planks of wood joined together and mounted on round dowels.

By Sam Hecht, Designer, April 23, 2016 | 10:18 pm CDT

Show Us Your Shop

Bacci operators disprove myth that mechanized manufacturing is not a craft

The highly specialized craftsmen at Mattiazzi, in Udine, Italy, operate the most sophisticated machinery available to the wood industry. A ten-axis CNC milling machine allows wood to take the complex shapes associated with injection-molded plastic. Operating such a machine is an art and Mattiazzi disproves the modern myth that mechanized manufacturing is not a craft.

By Jonathan Olivares, April 23, 2016 | 9:55 pm CDT

Woodworking Industry News

Albany Woodworks owner launches wood gasification business at its sawmill

Entrepreneur Richard Woods, CEO of Albany Woodworks and Waste to Energy Systems, has always seen sustainability as an important ideal to live by. As a result, he has built not only his home around the concept but also his two businesses. Albany Woodworks is a reclaimed lumber and building materials company that was started nearly 40 years ago.

By Karl D. Forth, April 22, 2016 | 4:27 pm CDT

Ask a Woodworker

HGTV’s Property Brothers share five apps and electronic must-haves

Sometimes even TV stars have good ideas. Jonathon and Drew Scott, co-stars of HGTV’s ‘Property Brothers’ home renovating fixer-upper reality show, shared their top five favorite gadgets - no hammers, saws or drills involved.

By Robert Dalheim, April 22, 2016 | 11:47 am CDT

Woodworking Industry News

CABTEQ cabinetry invests $3 million and adds 125 new jobs in South Carolina

Commercial cabinet manufacturer CABTEQ Solutions plans to invest $3 million in a new facility York County, South Carolina. The expansion is expected to create 125 new jobs.

By Michaelle Bradford, April 22, 2016 | 10:58 am CDT

Closets

Tips to understanding basic closet design standards

As a specialized niche’ with the bigger design/build pie, closet design has its own special merits. Here are a few tips to understanding basic design standards.

By Denise Butchko, April 22, 2016 | 8:26 am CDT

Architectural Products

Architectural woodworkers split in North American standards dispute

The Architectural Woodwork Manufacturers Association of Canada and Sacramento, California-based Woodwork Institute say they will develop a new architectural woodwork standard for North America. The move follows a dispute over ANSI standards with the Architectural Woodwork Institute, Potomac Falls, Virginia.

By Bill Esler, April 21, 2016 | 8:24 pm CDT

Canadian News

WestPine MDF explosion investigation continues

The investigation into last month's explosion that rocked the WestPine MDF facility in Quesnel, British Columbia, is ongoing, with WorkSafeBC reporting that it may be months before a conclusion is reached.

By Karen M. Koenig, April 21, 2016 | 5:14 pm CDT