Wood flooring giant Lumber Liquidators' third quarter net income jumped 57.2 percent to $6.7 million. Sales rose 16.8 percent sales to $172 million. Carl R. Daniels was named senior VP, supply chain.
At the WMS Toronto woodworking show, the second-day sees a bump in floor traffic as wood industry professionals fill the aisles to get product and technology insights delivered directly by exhibitors.
Woodworkers stream into Toronto's Direct Energy Centre at the opening of the second day of the Woodworking Machinery & Supply Expo. Canada's largest woodworking event continues through Saturday, October 29.
IMA America and Schelling America will celebrate their 60th and 25th anniversaries respectively with two days of planned events. The celebration will take place Nov. 10-11 at the companies’ office in Raleigh, NC.
West Wood Products announced it has added 20,000 square feet of space to its Houston, TX, plant, which now totals 45,000 square feet. The company’s main component manufacturing and flatline plant in Rancho Dominguez, CA, is 92,000 square feet.
Patrick Industries, Inc. (NASDAQ: PATK), a manufacturer and distributor of building and component products for recreational vehicles and manufactured housing, saw a 6.4 percent rise in third quarter sales, to $77.4 million. The gains came from acquisitions.
Within an hour of the Woodworking Machinery & Supply Expo opening in Toronto this morning, wood working professionals filled the floors, touring booths loaded with CNC cutting machinery, sanders, moulders, planers, and the latest in portable power tools, hardware and supplies.
Toronto's Woodworking & Machinery Supply Expo got off to a strong start, as wood industry professionals flowed through the exhibits. By noon crowds were packing some aisles.