WASHINGTON -- Delta Enterprise Corp. of New York, NY, has reannounced its recall of more than 985,000 drop-side cribs, resulting from the reported death of a second child.
Furniture manufacturing at Standard Furniture is expected to be back to 100 percent by Monday following fires Tuesday night, April 5, at the two sawdust collection silos.
A federal government shutdown could have harmed the wood industry, especially the struggling housing market, throwing a monkey-wrench in the mortgage approval process if FHA workers had been told not to return to work Monday.
Klaussner Home Furnishings's management buyout and Bush Furniture's quick-to-assemble casegoods technology, announced during the NC residential furniture show at the High Point Market, lead the news. Auctions at big wood door plants, Harney Woodworking's shut down, new hiring at wood panel plants, and a furniture plant reopening, plus a fire and Audi launches a wood bicycle line.
Domestic demand for hardwood is weak, report the editors of Hardwood Review. Foreign
markets are expanding, so a larger share of U.S. hardwood
lumber production is being exported than at any time in
history. For now, “exports are driving the bus,” one lumberman said.