SCM Group, the biggest Italian group in the woodworking machinery industry, announced they will exhibit at the next Xylexpo.

VANCOUVER, BC - Canfor Corp. has completed its acquisition of Anthony Forest Products for $93.5 million, including $15 million in working capital. The El Dorado, AR-based AFP operates six facilities, including a sawmill, two lumber laminating plants, two chip plants and an I-joist plant.

Three H Furniture Systems is expanding its facility to 44,000 sq.ft., spending $650,000 on a new CNC and point-to-point borer, and hiring employees at its office furniture and casegoods factory in New Liskeard, ON.

New orders for residential furniture increased 3 percent in August compared to a year earlier, continuing a 17-month string of increased year-over-year orders, according to the latest survey of residential furniture manufacturers and distributors by High Point accounting and consulting firm Smith Leonard.

With more than 22 million trees in California killed by a bark beetle infestation, exacerbated by the state's 4-year drought, Governor Jerry Brown declared a state of emergency to remove dead or dying trees in high-hazard areas.

Exterior building products producer CPG Building Products has partnered with CanWel-owned California Cascade Building Materials (CCBM) to distribute AZEK and TimberTech decking and railing collections along with AZEK trim and moulding to dealer partners across California and Nevada.

 When botanists were grappling with the harsh realities of the arrival of the emerald ash borer to U.S. forests, most referenced the devastation that might come to ash trees in terms of another native tree, all but wiped out by blight. That tree was the American chestnut, Castanea dentata. Scientists now have reason to hope that the majestic trees, once widespread throughout North America but virtually eliminated by the Asiatic blight fungus Cryphonectria parasitica, formerly known as Endothia parasitica, might return blight resistant.

In the above video, John Good, senior executive vice president at Drum Workshop, Inc. explains the art of drum shell manufacturing, the benefits of the firm’s relationship with veneer supplier Timber Products Company, and how wood grain orientation impacts a drum’s sound quality. Learn more about the veneers used to make DW Drums at www.timberproducts.com. What questions do you have about veneer?

An entrepreneurial spirit and a desire to work with end customers lured Joe Lonardo into the custom closets industry. He quickly put his business savvy to use, launching Bella Systems closet franchises.

Perhaps no sector has experienced this truth as much as woodworking manufacturers, where computers and software have often been inserted into the operational mix. But the human factor often still seems missing.