CNC Software, Inc. and Sandvik Coromant plan to integrate Sandvik's Adveon Tool Library with CNC's Mastercam CAM software programs.

transFORM, a designer and manufacturer of custom storage solutions, hired Gavin Bromell as design manager, overseeing its Westchester and Fairfield County design team.

Lumber from the 80-year-old Norway spruce that was the 2015 Christmas tree Rockefeller Center will be donated to Habitat for Humanity to be used in local building projects.

Residential furniture manufacturer Ethan Allen, will provide furniture and décor for HGTV's Dream Home 2016 contest, while flooring manufacturer Lumber Liquidators, its sister company Cabinets To Go, Jeld-Wen windows and doors, and Bush Brothers office furniture also supplied the project.

Fabelli Group, an Italian furniture manufacturer and importer, recently expanded its operations with the acquisition of a warehouse – and a new U.S. headquarters – in Sunrise, Florida. The acquisition will allow Fabelli to enter a market that it says is dominated by Chinese imports.

Mark Kovich, a VP at cabinetry manufacturer American Woodmark, will become board chair of the National Kitchen & Bath Association, effective January 1, 2016. Kovich is VP sales and marketing at the kitchen cabinet firm's fast-growing Waypoint Living Spaces.

J&L Tonewood owner, Harold Clause Kupers, pleads guilty to trafficking illegally harvested big leaf maple from Gifford Pinchot National Forest located in Southwest Washington state.

A Swiss firm will build temporary wood huts for Middle East refugees after an IKEA version failed to meet fire resistance standards. The Swiss city, housing 250 refugees in hall nine of the Messe Oerlikon trade show campus, plans to accept another 780 refugees in January.

Rutland Plywood Corporation's pension fund may have been embezzled. Earlier this month, a federal grand jury in Rutland, Vt. returned a three-count indictment against Neiman Groce, accusing him of raising $88,000 from the 401K, though Groce pleaded not guilty at a hearing last week, the U.S. Attorney for the District of Vermont reported.

University Furnishings LP and its partner, Freedom Furniture Group Inc., will pay $15 million for misclassifying imported university dorm furniture to avoid paying antidumping duties on the Chinese-made wood bedroom furniture. A competitor blew the whistle.