WASHINGTON, DC - The Environmental Protection Agency has amended the testing methods for the Formaldehyde Emission Standards for Composite Wood Products to allow for small chamber testing. The update on the small chamber correlations was published in the Feb. 7 Federal Register and is effective immediately.

The conference returns for its third year in 2018 as one of the largest events for CLT and mass timber experts from around the world devoted to mass timber in mid-to high-rise construction.

Legacy Post & Beam, a maker of kits for barns, houses, pavilions, sheds, and other structures, decided to move into a brand new 13,000-square-foot facility after experiencing big growth.

A 500,000-square-foot skyscraper will be the largest mass timber building in the United States.

Thanks to skyrocketing demand in China, export values of Japanese timber products are on track to reach highs not seen in 40 years.

Arkansas will ask 120 of its active sawmills to participate in a survey, which will allow it to construct year-end harvest and production reports.

McCONNELLSVILLE, N.Y. — Harden Furniture has resumed limited operations after the longtime residential and contract furniture maker temporarily shuttered its doors last week following the Feb.1 sale of its assets to a loan firm.

MEDINA, Minn. – Rockler Companies Inc. has recalled approximately 2,300 Murphy Bed hardware kits that the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission said pose serious tip-over and entrapment hazards to children. The CPSC said the hardware kits used to secure the wooden wall enclosures to the wall studs do not provide sufficient bracing support. To date, Rockler has received received five reports of the wooden wall enclosure falling from the wall, including one report of injury involving muscle strain and soreness to an adult.

The creation of the new AWI Standards is expected to continue for the next two years.

In an effort to source timber more ethically, furniture giant Ikea has purchased a massive 25,000-acre forest in the middle of Alabama.