Woodworking Industry News

Taking the fingerprint of smuggled wood

Chemists at the US Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) have been developing a method to identify trafficked wood on the spot using chemical fingerprinting. The USFWS has been instrumental in developing this technique for wood identification and sharing it with law enforcement labs around the world. The technique is called direct analysis in real time mass spectrometry, or DART-MS for short. Today, the suite of molecules it measures can be used to rapidly identify the species, and sometimes even the region, a piece of wood came from.

Woodworking Industry News

CertainTeed expands Landmark ClimateFlex across U.S. and Canada

CertainTeed has expanded the availability of Landmark ClimateFlex the all-weather performance shingle from its Landmark product family. The expansion includes the North Central, East Central and Lake Central regions, as well as parts of Canada, Including Ontario, Manitoba, Alberta, and Saskatchewan. This expansion follows a successful regional launch across the South Central and Central regions, and meets the growing demand for all-weathered roofs as extreme weather conditions continue to rise.