Lucidyne Technologies Inc., a North American supplier of automated lumber scanning and optimization, is integrating its software platform with Microtec's scanning solutions that it develops for the sawmilling and wood processing industry.

Black Bros. Company has named Clay Coss as its marketing manager. Founded in 1882 and in its sixth generation of family ownership, Black Bros. specializes in the manufacturing of laminating and roll coating technology and provides machines to businesses across the globe. Coss comes to Black Bros. with 10-years’ experience in the industrial sales and customer service industry and more than five years as a newspaper editor. He will also serve as a technical writer for the company.  

Mercer Mass Timber LLC., a subsidiary of the Vancouver, British Columbia-based Mercer International Inc., a global producer of market pulp and solid wood products with mills in Canada, Germany, and Australia, plans to invest $50 million over the next two years in capital projects at its Spokane Valley mass timber manufacturing facility.

Louisiana Pacific has recently completed a major conversion project at its Houlton, Maine facility.

Milwaukee Tool has begun construction on a new facility in Mississippi. Located in Grenada County, Mississippi, Milwaukee's latest expansion will accommodate the company’s growing power tool accessories and power tool business, and will also serve as a centralized repair facility. The new $60 million location is expected ed to open in mid-2023. 

The U.S. Bankruptcy Court has approved to access financing.

The Princess Royal has unveiled the Fenland Black Oak table - a 13m-long piece of furniture made from a 5,000-year-old fossilised tree.

The Container Store hit the highest full-year sales in its history, with consolidated net sales of $1.1 billion for fiscal 2021.

DRUMMONDVILLE, Quebec – Bastien Larouche, who is celebrating the 10th anniversary of his company Roboistic RMC (Robot-made Cabinets), will deliver a keynote presentation at Salon Industriel du Bois Ouvré (SIBO).