Vendura Solid Surfaces, a major player in the Midwest, has its sights set on expanding its health care business nationally.

Lennar is the latest homebuilder to report positive earnings, another signal the housing market is recovering. operating

Wood to see slowest growth of all fenestration products, though windows and doors overall will have double-digit growth. Competition from plastic windows and doors will have an impact.

KB Home revenue rose 16 percent to $414.5 million, as the number of homes delivered increased and selling prices rose - a sign of the general housing market recovery..

TimberSIL, a lumber products that fills voids in the wood cell structure glass particles as a preservative and strengthener, was selected as a wood entry in the Regenerative Network green roster.

California’s timber industry groups say they scored a big win with the passage by the California Assembly of AB 1492

Researchers at the Agriicultural Sciences and Natural Resources University of Gorgan say they have fabricated a higher quality of oriented strand board (OSB) out of low-grade paulownia wood by incorporating nanoclay and nanosilica in the recipe.

Furniture orders climbed 3% in June over June 2011 but only 47% of respondents in Smith Leonard's monthly survey reported increased orders. In comparison, 69% of respondents said they experienced new order increases in May.

North American composite panel shipments in August totalled 504 MMSF, up 9.4% from 460 MMSF (3/4” basis) for the same period a year ago, according to the Composite Panel Association's (CPA) monthly Industry Snapshot.

Hampton Affiliates said it will rebuild the Babine Forest Products sawmill in Burns Lake, BC, destroyed in a deadly explosion and fire, contingent on government guarantees for sufficient timber supply and negotiating "an acceptable agreement" with the United Steel Workers union.