Biennial woodworking show returns to Las Vegas this summer.

The Brock R. Landry Industry Leadership Award is given annually to an industry leader in recognition of their outstanding contributions to the composite panel industry.

The Kitchen Cabinet Manufacturers Association is standing firm on its antidumping and countervailing fight with the board literally standing shoulder to shoulder on a dais at the group’s annual spring meeting in support of these efforts. “We're going to continue to fight for our fair trade agenda,” said Jeff Gulledge, president of Montgomery, Alabama-based Bishop Cabinets and the incoming chairman of the association board. “We've seen the real dollars, $4.9 billion, by seeing this enforced properly. And we're going to continue to stay the course.”

From March 28 to 30, 88 international design experts met to determine the winners of the iF Design Award 2023 as part of the iF Final Jury. A total of 2,104 participants from 47 countries won the award and 75 entrants were awarded Gold awards.

WASHINGTON – Pending home sales decreased in March for the first time since November 2022, according to the National Association of Realtors. Three U.S. regions posted monthly losses, while the South increased. All four regions saw year-over-year declines in transactions. The Pending Home Sales Index (PHSI) – a forward-looking indicator of home sales based on contract signings – waned by 5.2% to 78.9 in March. Year over year, pending transactions dropped by 23.2%. An index of 100 is equal to the level of contract activity in 2001.

The CEO of a company that plans to ship wood from Africa to the United States and use a patent-pending CO-Tech system to dry the lumber in route has sold his sawmill and laminate wood flooring facilities, valued at $30 million, for $1. Caravelle International Group, a global ocean technology company, announced that the Company's CEO Dr. Guohua Zhang has sold Penxing Gabon SARL to Caravelle. 

Janet Linly, president and CEO of luxury-furniture manufacturer Marge Carson, has been invited to be featured in a new publication created to celebrate King Charles of England.

Kronospan will begin construction of a new, state-of-the-art, Oriented Strand Board (OSB) manufacturing plant on its 460-acre site in Oxford, Alabama.

Swedish wood technology company, Modvion, and the Finnish wood product company, Metsä Wood, have agreed to supply laminated veneer lumber (LVL) for Modvion's wooden wind turbine towers.

CITY Furniture, a family-owned American furniture and mattress retailer, and fine upholstery furniture manufacturer, has completed a nearly 1.4 million square foot distribution facility and showroom in Plant City, Florida. The 87-acre development includes more than 1 million square feet of warehouse space, as well as a nearly 200,000 million square foot, two-story showroom.