WithIt, the women’s leadership group for the home and furnishings industries, donated over $5,100 in support of the Women’s Health Initiative at the City of Hope.
Champion Home Builders, headquartered in Troy, Michigan, opened a 100,000-square-foot plant in a former home-manufacturing facility in Benton, Kentucky, installing state-of-the-art home-building equipment and investing $6.3 million.
Successful set-up time reduction efforts - a pillar of lean production - allow wood products manufacturers to reduce their lead-time and their work in process inventory (WIP), letting them be efficient even as they shrink batch sizes, shows a new study by Virginia Tech and FDMC magazine.
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Enis Kucuk, Urs Buehlmann - Virginia Tech,
November 1, 2016 | 9:31 pm CDT
The wood pellet sector, concentrated as it is in the Southern States and targeting the European market, has increased six-fold in five years but still consumes just over three percent of the total timber harvest in the U.S
Rehau has expanded its range of modern surfaces encompassing high-gloss, polymer glass, matte and natural textured woodgrain materials - all of which are available through the company’s custom cabinet door program.
Wisconsin once again leads the nation in accredited skill evaluators following a sold-out Woodwork Career Alliance (WCA) Accredited Skill Evaluator training program held October 28 at Madison Area Technical College.
An analysis from the Northern Forest Center has shown that wood pellet heat may reduce greenhouse gas emissions by more than half the amount fossil fuels do.
Kukun, an application for locating contractors, CEO Raf Howery believes technology can reverse the supply/demand mismatch causing the construction industry's labor shortage.