H3D Tool Corp. announced it has moved its Southern operations to a new location, in Connelly Springs, NC.

Roseburg's Grady Mulbery will take over the reigns as chairman of the Composite Panel Association in 2015. Additional 2015 officers and board members were also elected.

Masco, parent of Masco Cabinetry and its Merillat and KraftMaid lines, says it will spin-off its installation and services businesses into a publicly-traded company. It also will buy back 50 million shares and plans to lay off 40 percent of headquarters staff.

U.S. Forest Service will auction rights to almost 10 square miles of logging rights at Tongass National Forest. Hemlock, spruce and cedar woodlands will be sold in an effort to support logging and sawmill firms until second growth forest lands mature.

Custom office furniture firm Friant and Associates is expanding its manufacturing base eastward. The Oakland, CA-based manufacturer announced it will invest $17.4 million to open a new plant in Suffolk, VA.

A 29-year-old worker died Friday in an industrial accident at Boise Cascade's plywood plant in Moncure, NC.

L.J. Smith Stair Systems adds WBH Group to its sales force, effective October 1, 2014.

Roseburg hopes to have the Weed facility up and running by Thanksgiving, and will provide temporary housing for Weed employees who are unable to return home or lost their homes.

Net sales in the first quarter totaled $509.7 million, an increase of 8.9% from the same quarter last fiscal year.