Riccardo Quattrini will take over the management of Cefla Finishing Group, succeeding Roberto Scala, who led the group for more than a decade. The move is effective April 2.

Iconic guitar maker Fender Musical Instruments Corp. has announced plans to go public with its shares, which it will list on NASDAQ under the proposed ticker FNDR.

Middle East buyers switched from ash to oak, but Europe refuses to substitute oak for ash. Low sawmill production levels have pushed green ash species prices up much faster than kiln-dried ash lumber.

American Furniture 2011 sales fell 23 percent to $105.3 million.The unit of Compass Diversified Holdings wrote down $56.6 million in assets and good will in the past two years, and took a furniture obsolescence charge of $1.7 million.

The Window and Door Manufacturers Association board elected Ann Duebner, of Eggers Industries of Two Rivers, WI, as 2012-2013 chair, replacing outgoing Chair Elaine Sagers of Pella Corp.

Home prices could be near the bottom, says Robert Shiller, Yale economics professor and co-founder of the Case-Shiller Home Price Index.

It was a week laced with international intrque, as a veneer firm in Virginia pled guilty to smuggling $2.6 million worth of veneer to Syrian - an export market that has been strictly verboten for years. This was not a story of misplaced paperwork.

The Cabinet Makers Association, the organization for cabinetmakers and woodworkers, has launched the CMA Professional Certification Program — an educational and marketing tool intended to help woodworking businesses improve their competitive advantage.

ALPHARETTA, GA – The Kitchen Cabinet Manufacturers Association (KCMA) has entered into a cooperative marketing alliance with the National Kitchen & Bath Association (NKBA) to support the annual Kitchen & Bath Industry Show (KBIS).

Wood industry factories close as capacity shifts to new players, says Stiles president Peter Kleinschmidt. As once outsourced products return to the U.S., companies see they can't capture opportunities with 25-year-old technology.