The highly specialized craftsmen at Mattiazzi, in Udine, Italy, operate the most sophisticated machinery available to the wood industry. A ten-axis CNC milling machine allows wood to take the complex shapes associated with injection-molded plastic. Operating such a machine is an art and Mattiazzi disproves the modern myth that mechanized manufacturing is not a craft.

Entrepreneur Richard Woods, CEO of Albany Woodworks and Waste to Energy Systems, has always seen sustainability as an important ideal to live by. As a result, he has built not only his home around the concept but also his two businesses. Albany Woodworks is a reclaimed lumber and building materials company that was started nearly 40 years ago.

Sometimes even TV stars have good ideas. Jonathon and Drew Scott, co-stars of HGTV’s ‘Property Brothers’ home renovating fixer-upper reality show, shared their top five favorite gadgets - no hammers, saws or drills involved.

Commercial cabinet manufacturer CABTEQ Solutions plans to invest $3 million in a new facility York County, South Carolina. The expansion is expected to create 125 new jobs.

As a specialized niche’ with the bigger design/build pie, closet design has its own special merits. Here are a few tips to understanding basic design standards.

The Architectural Woodwork Manufacturers Association of Canada and Sacramento, California-based Woodwork Institute say they will develop a new architectural woodwork standard for North America. The move follows a dispute over ANSI standards with the Architectural Woodwork Institute, Potomac Falls, Virginia.

The investigation into last month's explosion that rocked the WestPine MDF facility in Quesnel, British Columbia, is ongoing, with WorkSafeBC reporting that it may be months before a conclusion is reached.

J&L Tonewood owner, Harold Clause Kupers, was sentenced to six months in prison for trafficking illegally harvested big leaf maple from Gifford Pinchot National Forest in Southwest Washington state.

Semi-finalists were announced in the 2016 International Woodworking Fair Challengers Distinguished Achievement Award, for innovative new technology in woodworking machinery, supplies, and services for furniture, kitchen cabinets, architectural woodwork, store fixture, upholstery, or specialty and general wood product industries.

La-Z-Boy recently announced that one of its manufacturing facilities has broken the American Home Furnishings Alliance (AHFA) safety record. The facility went over 6.8 million hours without seeing an Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) recordable lost-time case.