UNION CITY. PA -- A former Ethan Allen furniture factory destroyed by fire eight months ago remains a community eyesore.

Construction spending in China will rise 9.4 percent annually through 2015, according to a recent study by The Freedonia Group.

The WoodWorkers Guild of America recently held its second annual Build a Vet a Guitar event, with the instruments to be donated to Guitars For Vets, a non-profit organization that enhances the lives of ailing and injured military veterans by providing them with guitars and music instruction.

The National Association of the Remodeling Industry said it applauds the EPA's decision not to impose lead dust clearance as an addendum to the Lead Renovation, Repair and Painting Rule.

HIGH POINT, NC -- The American Society of Furniture Designers (ASFD) announced the Finalists for the 2011 Pinnacle Awards.

PORT ANGELES, WA --Peninsula Plywood, buoyed by financial aid approved by the Port Angeles City Council, has hired some 30 workers and more than doubled production from a reported 1.3 million feet to 3 million feet.

SELINSGROVE, PA -- Barefoot Pellet Co. experienced approximately $100,000 in fire damage shortly after midnight Friday, July 22.

The wood products firm has expedited its restructuring.

HIGH POINT -- Smith Leonard, furniture consultants, reported that new furniture orders jumped 16% in April, largely due to earlier dates for the biannual High Point Furniture Market.

BAD SALZUFLEN, GERMANY -- Sixteen months after the sale of the trade exhibitions ZOW Zuliefermesse Ost-Westfalen, FMB Forum Maschinenbau and Focus Kitchen & Bath, to Clarion Events Ltd., German ZOW-“inventor” Peter Meyer and Clarion Survey, subsidiary of the international group, separated completely.