Eco Building™ Products, Inc. announced the company has commenced unloading of containers with Red Shield coated lumber in our Port Au Prince wholesale lumber distribution facility.

The chair provides a modern design to fight an age-old problem.

Total revenue for the period was US$619.0 million, up 1.9% from US$607.7 million for the same quarter last year.

Cabinetry refacing firm U.S. Home Systems had record revenues of $43.8 million, an increase of 24.4%, as compared to $35.2 million in the second quarter 2010.

CN and China's CNBM Forest Products Trading Ltd. announced today that they have reached an agreement to use CN's new lumber transload facility in Vancouver to increase the supply chain capacity for Canadian lumber exports.

The trees will be quarantined to prevent a spread of the disease.

The Commerce Department’s U.S. Census Bureau today released retail sales data for July 2011. Retail sales increased 0.5 percent, similar to private-sector expectations, and sales in May and June were revised upward, each by 0.2 percent. Motor vehicle sales increased 0.5 percent in July, and sales at gasoline stations jumped 1.6 percent. Sales excluding those at motor vehicle and parts dealers and gasoline stations also rose 0.5 percent.

Patents for wood furnishings and other items were issued to designer Sally Sirkin Lewis for her Andromeda Chair, Cloud Buffet, Ribbed Floor Lamp, and Linea Floor Lamp.

Retail sales edged up in July.

Tony Slaven is the new district sales manager of Stiles.