Alexander Hoehn-Saric, chair of the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC), addressed members of the American Home Furnishings Alliance (AHFA) Board of Directors during the group’s spring government affairs meeting here May 14-15.

The Fenestration and Glazing Industry Alliance released the 2024/2025 study of the U.S. Market for windows, doors, and skylights. This bi-annual report delivers information on residential and non-residential market trends.

Winning prizes from Castle USA included a TSM-12 Pocket Cutting Machine for the class winner and the Castle 110 Pocket Cutter for the individual entry.

The Watermill Group, a private investment firm, has invested in Musser Lumber and its principal operating subsidiary, Musser Biomass and Wood Products, a mid-Atlantic producer of premium dried hardwood fiber and associated converted products.

Mortgage rates that averaged above 7% since mid-April per Freddie Mac data acted as a drag on new home sales last month, according to a new National Association of Home BuildersSales of newly built, single-family homes in April fell 4.7% to a 634,000 seasonally adjusted annual rate from a downwardly revised reading in March, according to newly released data from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and the U.S. Census Bureau. The pace of new home sales in April is down 7.7% from a year earlier.

Kronospan, a leading producer of wood panel products, has acquired Woodgrain’s Particleboard facility in Island City, Oregon, which is the second particleboard facility purchase in less than a year.In December, Kronospan closed the purchase of Roseburg’s Simsboro, Louisiana, particleboard facility.

The overarching aim of the collaboration is to equip school woodworking programs with comprehensive instructional tools that will prepare their students for the workforce.

The Public Comment periods for the four standards will be open for feedback until July 1, 2024. During the Public Comment period for these standards, anyone can review the draft standard, share their concerns or comments, and provide their solutions to AWI for review by AWI Standards Staff and the AWI Technical Committee.

Legislation was introduced in the U.S. House in April to promote the use of mass timber in federal building projects and military construction, and while the timber industry is supportive of the bill, that support isn't universal.

In 2024, Colonial Saw celebrates 75 years of supplying American Wood products manufactures with European technology, but 2024 is an important year in more ways than one.