Furniture start-ups are appearing in the Southeast. Kith Furniture is producing bedroom sets in a factory adjacent to Door Component in Haleyville, AL; and $3.5 million in grants are aimed a North Carolina furniture manufacturers.

TORONTO -- Sino-Forest Corporation (TSX: TRE), a commercial forest plantation operator in China, has repaid the outstanding balance of its 9.125% Guaranteed Senior Notes totaling $87,570,000 plus accrued interest. The final payment was made to Citibank N.A.

The Holzma U.S.Manufacturing Solutions Seminar Oct. 25 Grand Rapids, MI

EPA issues stop sale order to DuPont on sale and distribution of Imprelis herbicide

Canadian furniture manufacturer Bermex has reportedly purchased a 95,000-square-foot former hosiery factory building in High Point, NC.

SEATTLE -- Chilkoot Lumber Company of Haines, AK, and its owner, Edward Lapeyri, will pay $9,500 for improperly storing and failing to repair leaking transformers that contained toxic PCBs, according to a settlement with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

Woodworking tooling manufacturer LMT Onsrud celebrates the grand openingof its Waukegan, IL center Sept. 8 with a photographic exhibition, “125 Auto Motive,”celebrating the 125th anniversary of the invention of the automobile.

Converting the Federal inventory of homes into rental property could stimulate new home construction, the Obama administration suggests. New construction would increase demand for cabinetry, flooring and architectural millwork.

Most viewed this week in wood: After Swedwood voted in a union, neighboring IKEA furniture supplier EBI llc, Danville, VA, says no to unions. Baldwin Hardware follows some furniture makers to produce its hardware in Mexico, Masonite will spend $14 million to automate a door plant, lead rules for juvenile furniture are eased, and Rick Hill advises on entering the cabinetry field.

Bush Industries, Inc., a maker of case goods and ready-to-assemble furniture for office and home, says it has completed the final phase of separating into two operating divisions: Bush Furniture, for retail and online sales, and bbf, for the commercial market segments.