PARKERSBURG, WV -- Three woodworkers won SawStop table saws in the "Finger Saving Sweepstakes" drawing sponsored by Woodcraft and SawStop.

DALEVILLE, IN -- Two armed robbers reportedly beat and stabbed an employee at Daleville Furniture Outlet on December 28 before fleeing with money taken from the store's cash register.

WAVERLY, OH -- The end is near of two Mill's Pride cabinetry plants and the 1,200 people who work at them.

WASHINGTON, DC -- Approximately 21,500 Ryobi RTS20 portable table saws are being voluntarily recalled by One World Technologies of Anderson, SC.

GRAND RAPIDS, MI -- Shipments of office furniture are projected to increase at an 8.3% clip in 2011, according to a forecast by IHS Global Insights' produced on behalf of the Business and Institutional Furniture Manufacturers Association Intl.

The National Wood Flooring Assn. relaunches its consumer oriented flooring website.

Wood industry closures, saw dust explosions, fires and fatalities confirmed that "bad news sells" as Masco's Waverly, OH cabinetry plant closure and a combustible dust explosion at Wood-Mode were among top 2010 news.

The Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree will milled into lumber in Rockefeller Plaza by building managers Tishman Speyer, then used to build a low-cost home by Habitat for Humanity.

EcoBlue Products says it expects its patent pending wood treatment will meet Greenguard Children & Schools criteria.

Akzo Nobel's Casco Adhesives unit, supplier to the secondary wood manufacturing industry, is implementing IFS Eco-footprint Management.