The ANCA Tool of the Year (TOTY) competition celebrates the deep experience and creativity of the craftspeople who create the next generation of cutting tools.

The Wood Doctor also answers questions on safely storing lumber, clamping pressure in gluing, and dull sandpaper.

The housing demand is far outstripping supply, and both home prices and rents rose at their fastest pace in decades.

The Vietnamese Mekong Wood MDF Joint Stock Company in Phu Tho ordered a complete MDF plant from Germany-based Siempelkamp. The Mekong Wood MDF company is entering panel production, which will primarily be fed with the local raw materials acacia and eucalyptus.

Classy Closets will open a new showroom in The Woodlands, Texas, this July.

More than $32 million was awarded by the USDA to fund wood innovations and community grants. Projects to support bioenergy, biofuel, and biobased product production are among those to receive funding.

National building materials distributor continues to grow presence in Arizona.

As more homeowners spend time outside, there has been an uptick in outdoor kitchens, furniture, and accessories.

Softwood lumber producers across North America are still operating at relatively high-capacity levels despite this being the time of year that production would slow because of normal seasonal closures, and softwood lumber prices would lower, according to the Madison Lumber Reporter.

The combined company will have approximately 2.2 million Acres of diversified high-quality timberlands. It will remain the timber REIT with the most leverage to lumber prices.