Lise LeBreton has joined Tafisa Canada as marketing manager.

A next-generation composite wood panel product is in development by SierraPine and Noble Environmental Technologies. At the AWFS Fair woodworking show plans to commercialize the co-branded panel product.

A shortage of lumber drives China to buy millions of wood chopsticks manufactured by an Americus, GA start-up.

Thomasville Furniture auctions wood machinery, Vaughan Bassett sawdust pile catches fire, and AWFS Fair Sequoia wood products awards were the week's most viewed wood reports. A Federal court rules St. Joseph Abbey's woodworks may build wood caskets also topped the list, with craftsman monks on video.

Buyers in Vietnam purchased a record volume of U.S. hardwood logs in May, and that market will likely overtake Italy as the third leading foreign destination in the next couple of months.

Supa Doors, Inc., a manufacturer of quality medium density fiberboard (MDF) doors used in residential and commercial developments, says it has upgraded and automated its woodworking tooling management process.

At furniture maker ModuForm and lumber company Universal Forest Products, execs tell reporters small business hiring and expansion are on hold while Washington settles the debt ceiling the economic outlook clears up.

Workers at Swedwood Danville, the Ringgold,VA furnishings factory operated by IKEA, have voted overwhelmingly to unionize giving the Intl. Assn of Machinists and Aerospace Workers the right represent workers in collective bargaining over wages and benefits.