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.

SNX Technologies announced it is now an authorized representative for Omnitech CNC routers.

Woodworking hobbyists spend more on their craft - a total $3..32 billion - than other crafting enthusiasts.

Wood coatings and adhesives firm Accessa says it will now distribute the Sayerlack line of premium polyester and polyurethane wood finishes

HILLMAN, MI -- No injuries were reported in a fire that destroyed the sawmill of Rust Wood Products, a manufacturer of wood pallets.

WASHINGTON -- Woodworkers and others whose jobs expose them to respiratory hazards, are being urged by federal safety agencies to regularly undergo spirometry testing.

NAGOLD, GERMANY -- Häfele, an international supplier of hardware technology for the cabinet, closet and furniture industries, will showcase its interpretation of "dream rooms" at interzum 2011, May 25-28, in Cologne, Germany.