The Home Depot sales grew 6.4% third quarter, while its big box competitor Lowe's quarterly sales increased 5%. Both companies will expand next year as they expect the housing boom to continue unabated. Biggest growth came from professional builders and remodelers.

The Stefani Solution XD edgebander is designed for the industrial production of both identical and different batches and for intensive use even beyond the daily working shift, says Scm Group. Due to its versatility and with working lengths up to 9 meters, every type of production can cost-effectively machined, permitting custom finishing quality in a production-scale setting.

Martha Stewart's American Made furniture and home furnishings line opened a store at Amazon's Handmade marketplace, leaving eBay where it opened in 2013. The online custom woodworking and maker markets are heating, with Custommade.com trailing and Etsy facing big challenges for the custom made crafts marketplace. Handmade at Amazon, launched Oct. 8, 2015, has more than 200,000 items from 10,000 approved artisans.

What’s the ‘thing’ that really sets you and your employees into action? When “X” happens, we go to work… For an employee at the machine, it’s usually something like “When the cutlist is put on my clipboard, I cut it out”, which is pretty simple. What about you, though? How do you know what to do and when to do it? What is ‘it’ that makes you act?

A federal courtroom in lower Manhattan yesterday saw Car-Freshener Corporation take action to protect its brand against upstart Exotica Fresheners Company. Let the battle of the tree-shaped car fresheners begin!

Georgia-Pacific Engineered Lumber has expanded distribution into the Baltimore market through U.S. Lumber. U.S. Lumber also supplies the full line of Georgia-Pacific engineered lumber products at their distribution centers in Atlanta, Raleigh, N.C., Nashville, Tenn., and Greenville, S.C.

The global bathroom vanities market is expected to reach $8.40 billion by 2020, but health concerns due over urea formaldehyde in resin used to bind MDF panel fibers are expected to hamper growth.

One of the tallest wood buildings in the world will soon be constructed at UBC, providing housing for hundreds of students. When completed, the $51.5-million residence building will stand 53 meters tall -about 174 feet.

A cross-laminated timber structure has been built in Chicago, bring that city it's first high profile application of the wood construction material being used in high rise wood building construction. The Chicago Horizon project was designed by Ultramoderne, a Rhode Island architectural group, for a competition, and represents "a quest to create the largest wood roof possible."

The team at Safety Speed Manufacturing joins in applauding the reshoring trend bringing production back to the U.S., but it will not be joining the movement anytime soon. Its 65,000 woodworking machines have been proudly made in the USA since its first vertical panel saw was manufactured 57 years ago.