In response to the devastating fires in California earlier this year, Real American Hardwood and National Wood Flooring Association is rallying to educate consumers about the benefits of real wood products over plastic look-alikes.

Flexsteel Industries Inc. has appointed Terence P. Calloway as an independent director of the company effective May 21, 2025.

As a sales representative of long standing with Global Fabricating Inc., Toronto, Canada, I spent many years developing clientele in America. We were very successful in the long run.The pandemic taught us to seek out local suppliers, side-stepping the supply chain crisis as much as possible.Our supply equation was: Buy local - Provincial-Canadian, then America, and then elsewhere if need be.

Citing unfair trade practices, the Coalition for Fair Trade in Hardwood Plywood has petitioned the U.S. Department of Commerce and the International Trade Commission to enact antidumping and countervailing duties against Indonesia, Vietnam, and China. The petitions, filed Thursday, May 22, "have significant implications for our economy, in which hardwood plywood plays a critical role in producing numerous downstream products."

The Texas Woodworking Festival is an event that can best be described as a mix of an industry trade show, educational seminar and a woodworking-themed festival.

Weyerhaeuser has announced it has reached an agreement to sell its lumber mill in Princeton, British Columbia, to the Gorman Group, and also announced an agreement to acquire approximately 117,000 acres of timberlands in North Carolina and Virginia from Roanoke Timberlands LLC.

Homanit, a manufacturer of MDF and other fiberboard, has selected a site in South Carolina for its first U.S. manufacturing operation. The $250 million investment is expected to create 300 new jobs.

Recipients are eligible for the scholarship for four years, with some granted a fifth year based on their school and finalizing their undergraduate degree or their trade school program.