One of Mirka’s success factors has been our focus on educating sales force, employees and customers. Systems and solutions with real benefits for the customer's profitability and competitiveness have become increasingly important. The number of training programs has grown significantly in recent years, making it challenging to accomplish with limited space.

Today Carlisle Wide Plank Floors, the epic wide plank floor company, announced the launch of its e-commerce site, offering luxury unfinished and prefinished wide plank floors for consumers to purchase online at store.wideplankflooring.com.

The American Forest & Paper Association (AF&PA) presented its 2013 Better Practices, Better Planet 2020 Sustainability Awards at the association's annual meeting on Friday, Nov. 1 in Charleston, S.C.

Patrick Industries, Inc., a major manufacturer and distributor of building and component products for the recreational vehicle ("RV"), manufactured housing ("MH") and industrial markets, today reported its financial results for the third quarter and nine months ended September 29, 2013.

Finishing Brands: Binks, DeVilbiss, Ransburg, BGK and Owens Community College have teamed up to present a Spray Finishing Technology Workshop.

Q: We have one supplier of red oak lumber that seems to have a lot of blue- to black-colored spots. They are just on the surface, but it makes the lumber look poor. Is this a defect?

Q: We produce solid oak plank tables using random-width pieces to make up the final width of the panel. As with all panels, we experience shrinking and swelling out in the field. The question arose if we built a panel with all pieces being the same width throughout the panel, would this decrease the shrinking problem? We maintain around 8 percent moisture content.

Two of WDMA's Total Product Performance™ standards for interior architectural wood doors have been approved as American National Standards.