President Obama visited window production plant Thompson Creek Window Company on January7.

The key to working with the the vast array of communication methods available today is matching them to the situation.

New Energy Technologies Inc. announced that independent corroboration of early power modeling for the company’s SolarWindow has spurred active development of advanced ‘commercial-use’ models for calculating power production and energy savings for the first-of-its-kind technology capable of generating electricity on glass while remaining see-through.

The value of softwood logs and lumber exported from North America to China reached more than $1.6 billion in 2010, 150 percent higher than the previous year and more than 10 times as much as in 2006, reports the Wood Resource Quarterly.

TOCCOA, GA -- Osborne Wood Products installed new industrial shredder that will recycle cardboard into a more eco-friendly packing material to replace the use of foam "peanuts."

Ashley Furniture HomeStore announced it had increased the number of stores in its network by 21 in 2010, for a total of 422.

NORTH PALM BEACH, FL -- Carls Furniture, a Florida-based home furniture retailer, announced it will close stores in North Palm Beach and Stuart.

HIGH POINT, NC -- Accounting and Consulting firm Smith Leonard reported that new orders of furniture for October were down 5% from the same period a year ago, as gaged by its monthly survey of furniture manufacturers and distributors.

STANLEYTOWN, VA -- Stanley Furniture, a manufacturer and importer of wood casegoods, has sold two of its U.S. manufacturing plants for $4.9 million.

It wouldn't be the first time I added 2 and 2 and got 5, but the fact that Ashley Furniture is eyeing Furniture Brand's Thomasville RTA furniture plant in Virginia, makes me wonder if it is the unnamed company that had made a play for Mill's Pride's RTA cabinet plant in Ohio.