KronoStar has purchased a particleboard plant from business partner Siempelkamp and will integrate it directly into the company's existing operation.

Online furnishings retailer Wayfair says it offers "a zillion things" for the home. What the e-commerce firm doesn't tell you is that some of those items contained high levels of formaldehyde. Nine out of 10 furniture and flooring items submitted to HPVA Laboratories for formaldehyde emissions testing failed to comply with CARB II regulations.

The Federal Reserve’s increase in its benchmark short-term interest rate and future rate increases in the next few years will affect the U.S. economy in several ways. But if the increases are gradual, the affect on the U.S. housing market will not be large. Rates will increase on mortgages, but the Fed has emphasized that they will move gradually and in small increments, according to a report in USA Today.

JW Millwork, which sells domestic and imported moulding products, was acquired by Cedar Creek, a wholesale buildings materials distributor.

Optimized for iPad Pro with Apple Pencil support, a new function in the Houzz app makes it easier to communicate through images and to add products from the Houzz Marketplace to any photo.

Dave and Jenny Hall took a storage dilemma and turned it into an entrepreneurial opportunity by creating Glideware vertical storage. See Glideware at KBIS 2016 and at the 2016 Cabinets & Closets Expo, March 23-24 in Pasadena, California.

Biewer Lumber, a producer of lumber products for building construction and secondary wood manufacturing, will invest $85 million to open a new plant in Newton, MS, creating approximately 125 jobs.

A proposal is underway by the Forest Stewardship Council to revise the trademark requirements and make easier the labeling and promotion by FSC certificate holders. The deadline for public comments on the draft standard is Jan. 31, 2016.

Citing improving markets for rotary hardwood veneer in North America, Gary Gillespie, vice president of Columbia Forest Products’ Northern Operations, announced this week that Columbia is in the intermediate stages of preparing for a reopening the company's plant in Rutherglen, Ontario.

When done well, custom products—mostly closets, in my case—make customers fall in love. Here are five tips to fine-tuning your process of giving the customer exactly what they want every time.