The National Wooden Pallet & Container Association (NWPCA) appointed Hinton Howell of Hinton Lumber Products as its new chairman.

Combined sales reached $73.3 billion for the FDMC 300, North America’s largest manufacturers of cabinetry, closets and home organization, furniture, architectural millwork, retail fixtures, flooring, windows and doors, and other wood-related products.

Expletives are not usually the sort of discourse heard when a CEO is discussing his company's financial results in a call with financial analysts, journalists, and investors. But, for Restoration Hardware's CEO Gary Friedman, his real-time surprise of "Oh (bleep),” perfectly fit the moment he learned that shares of his company were down 30% after the White House made its "Liberation Day" tariffs splash.

Virginia Tile, a division of Transom Capital Group-backed Artivo Surfaces, has sold its woodworking products distribution business to Wilsonart Engineered Surfaces. The acquired operations are headquartered in Kansas City, Kansas, with branches in Tulsa, Oklahoma City, Wichita, and Springfield, Missouri. The acquired locations distribute decorative surfaces, cabinet accessories, and decorative and functional hardware.

The SBCA Innovation Grant was created to encourage individuals and companies to share their ideas and solutions in an effort to cultivate innovation in the structural building components and lightweight wood framing industry.

In March, based on data released by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics and analyzed by Associated Builders and Contractors, construction industry employment increased by 143,000, 1.8% year-over-year.

Timesavers, LLC, a global leader in industrial sanding and finishing solutions, promoted Paul Ostlund to president. Ostlund previously served as Vice President of the company since joining in 2022.

Mercer Mass Timber played a key role in the construction of Walmart’s new Home Office in Bentonville, Arkansas—the largest mass timber corporate campus in the United States. The installation of the mass timber panels began in Spring 2024 and is now fully complete.

WASHINGTON -- After repeatedly saying that the U.S. didn't need Canadian lumber and numerous repeated threats to add to import taxes to a big chunk of U.S. wood supply, lumber has been left out of Trump's tariff blitz. When President Trump announced reciprocal tariffs on a list of dozens of countries, lumber, composite wood panels and related products and other USMCA-compliant goods from Canada and Mexico were exempted.

The Green Science Alliance has set a goal of replacing chemical products with those derived from plants and natural biomass. The glue, roughly comparable to commercially available chemical glue, is a two-solution mixing type epoxy resin glue with a plant biomass content between 30-50%.