Horner Millwork will invest $7 million to expand its Somerset, MA, manufacturing plant by 20,000-square-feet, adding two new CNCs and a solar plant facility and creating 15 new jobs.

Online furnishings retailer Wayfair says it offers "a zillion things" for the home. What the e-commerce firm doesn't tell you is that some of those items contained high levels of formaldehyde. Nine out of 10 furniture and flooring items submitted to HPVA Laboratories for formaldehyde emissions testing failed to comply with CARB II regulations.

JW Millwork, which sells domestic and imported moulding products, was acquired by Cedar Creek, a wholesale buildings materials distributor.

Optimized for iPad Pro with Apple Pencil support, a new function in the Houzz app makes it easier to communicate through images and to add products from the Houzz Marketplace to any photo.

Biewer Lumber, a producer of lumber products for building construction and secondary wood manufacturing, will invest $85 million to open a new plant in Newton, MS, creating approximately 125 jobs.

A proposal is underway by the Forest Stewardship Council to revise the trademark requirements and make easier the labeling and promotion by FSC certificate holders. The deadline for public comments on the draft standard is Jan. 31, 2016.

Citing improving markets for rotary hardwood veneer in North America, Gary Gillespie, vice president of Columbia Forest Products’ Northern Operations, announced this week that Columbia is in the intermediate stages of preparing for a reopening the company's plant in Rutherglen, Ontario.

Roseburg Forest Products will combine the manufacturing and sales functions for its solid wood and composite panel lines as part of its reorganization efforts for 2016. Other areas of the company will remain as currently structured, said incoming President Grady Mulbery. The company also announced a number of promotions.

MakersDream, a startup from Venice, Italy has launched Evo-One, a CNC mill that can be used on a desktop. Fundraising the project on Kickstarter, the developers, who previously launched the InventOne 3D printer, say keeping 3D and CNC separate is a better approach to engineering and operation.

Lumber Liquidators finally catches a break, as Whitney Tilson, an investment manager who was a steady critic of its business practices, reverses his position. Tilson says he is now top management did not knowingly sell Chinese made laminate flooring with high levels formaldehyde. The stock rose 17 percent on the news.