LEESBURG, VA -- North American shipments of thermally fused melamine (TFM) panels declined 4.9% to 96 million square feet MMSF in February compared to 101 MMSF last month, according to the Composite Panel Association (CPA).

SPRINGFIELD, OR -- Timber Products Company, hired Mike Clausen as its new vice president of sales for hardwood plywood and the international division.

Reactive and non-reactive wood coatings: following a silent explosion in the field of resin technology, we will see advances soon that will lift the performance standards of water-borne coatings even higher.

Business furniture firm Knoll, Inc. (NYSE: KNL) said its first quarter 2011 net income rose 318 percent to $9.2 million, on sales of $220.9 million. The East Greenville, PA firm is hiring, with more than two dozen open positions posted online.

Every coating has two things in it; volatiles and volume solids. Those are the two Vs in wood lacquer.

Veneer producer Schorn & Groh acquires birch burl plantation in Finland

Wood products firm Jewett-Cameron Trading Company Ltd. (NASDAQ: JCTCF; TSX: JCT) says second quarter 2011 sales rose 54% to $11.86 million versus $7.67 million for the second quarter 2010.

MINNEAPOLIS -- Graco Industrial Products will present a live free webinar, "Achieve High Quality Wood Finishes," at 10:00 a.m. (CST) Friday, April 29.

SCM Group's annual Technology Days Doors+Windows drew 1,200 door and window manufacturers to Rimini, Italy from all over the world, including the U.S.

File this under "What took you so long?" Bills have been introduced in both houses of Congress to craft a national manufacturing strategy intended to bolster domestic manufacturing, including establishing investment incentives that would help create jobs.