SCHAUMBURG, Ill. – Hampton Lumber will feature a pair of lightweight wood panel products at the Closets Conference & Expo, co-located with Wood Pro Expo Illinois. The two-day exhibition, preceded by a full day of conferences, is scheduled for April 18-19 at the Schaumburg Convention Center.

VANCOUVER, British Columbia – West Fraser Timber, the largest manufacturer of softwood lumber in North America, reported a loss of $167 million on $6.454 billion in total sales in 2023 compared to turning a profit of $1.975 billion on $9.701 billion in 2022.

If you want to learn more about installing scribe molding, Eric Marshall, The Closet Training Institute, is hosting a clinic on Thursday, April 18, during the Closets Expo from 12 p.m. to 1 p.m.

WASHINGTON — Expectations that mortgage rates will continue to moderate in the coming months, the prospect of future rate cuts by the Federal Reserve later this year, and a protracted lack of existing inventory helped provide a boost to builder sentiment for the third straight month.Builder confidence in the market for newly-built single-family homes climbed four points to 48 in February, according to the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB)/Wells Fargo Housing Market Index (HMI) released Feb. 15. This is the highest level since August 2023.

Gat Creek furniture has finished a major expansion that took two and a half years to complete, and expanded its West Virginia facility by 40 percent.

FORT PIERCE, Fla. — A-1 Global Holdings, Inc., a leader in pre-engineered building components, has completed its latest expansion, a 48,000-square-foot addition to the A-1 Industries of Florida manufacturing facility in Fort Pierce, Florida. This significant development is a strategic response to the Company’s record growth and increasing customer demand.

Instillation of the dryer, which has the capacity of approximately 60MMBF, began last spring.

In 2022, Maryland-based Enviva was riding high. For the second year in a row, revenue topped $1 billion, up 24% from two years prior. In April of that year, stocks hit a peak of $87 per share, and multiyear contracts were signed with customers across the European Union, United Kingdom, Japan and South Korea.Enviva, the world's largest bioenergy firm in the world, dominated the global market for wood pellets used by the energy industry.

When their C.R. Onsrud 146C18C CNC router’s controller became obsolescent, E.F. San Juan knew something had to be done before it ceased to function. It turned to MachMotion for a solution.

After the booming growth of recent years, another negative quarter is expected for the processing industry of wood and wood-based materials.