EPA clean air standards for industrial boilers, Incinerators and some kilns include were issued the Friday before Christmas. They set numerical standards for small particle emissions,
U.S. office furniture manufacturing, weakened over the past five years by recession and changing workstyles, is now poised for sustained growth. Business improvement and increased hiring will result in a 3.6% revenue rise, to $20.6 billion in 2012
Deublin Company says it acquired Barco Seals on December 1. Both businesses make fluid power components used in wood manufacturing machinery and for equipment and process industries.
Table saw safety; six mergers and acquisitions, two Chinese companies setting up shop on U.S. soil, Gibson Guitar's settlement of Lacey Act violations and a $70,000 bent wood bike are among Woodworking Network's Top 25 news items of the year.
Steelcase Inc. marked its 11th consecutive quarter of organic growth for its sales of office, contract and healthcare furniture in North, Central and South America during its third quarter ended Nov. 23.
The parent company of Armstrong Cabinet/ACProducts and Northwest Hardwoods has added another firm to its building products portfolio. American Industrial Partners has acquired the operating assets of Potomac Supply Corp., a softwood mill and wood treatment service supplier in Kinsale, VA.