MARIETTA, GA -- The Wood Component Manufacturers Association has set a busy agenda for 2011, which it kicked off at last week's Closets & Home Organization Conference & Expo in Charlotte, NC.

Wood science students help support lean transformation efforts.

The wood furniture maker is hosting a national design contest for a chance to win a trip to Las Vegas.

The wood products firm offers enhanced content for distribution, dealers and builders.

The wood door firm offers programs to assist builders, dealers and remodelers.

OKOLONA, Miss. – The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration has cited United Furniture Industries Inc. in Okolona for 18 safety violations. Proposed penalties total $66,000.

Public officials of Larimer County, CO say they are curtailing hours of operation for a wood sorting yard intended to stop the spread of pine beetles.

Utility firm Public Service of New Hampshire told local media that the conveyors that deliver wood chips at its Schiller Station in Portsmouth caught fire. The generator, installed in 1952, was converted in 2006 to generate 50 megawatts of electricity from clean wood chips.

From cars, to cabinets, to closets, today's consumer wants everything individualized. Using automation in CNC and software to do that was among the big ideas explored at Wood Tech Summit in Charlotte last week.

ASSAGO, ITALY -- Eumabois, the federation of approximately 800 European woodworking machinery manufacturers, has issued the seventh and final installment of its “Choose the original - Choose success” campaign launched in 2010.