Ashlee Cribb, vice president of wood products for PotlatchDeltic Corporation, has been elected to serve as chair on APA’s Board of Trustees, succeeding Roy O. Martin III.
TAL Holdings, a family-owned company that operates building material centers in the Pacific Northwest, has agreed to acquire Miller’s Home Center with four locations in Baker City and La Grande, Oregon, as well as a cabinet manufacturing facility and a truss production facility in Oregon.
Furniture giant HNI Corp. has joined a cost-cutting list that also includes other mega companies MillerKnoll and Steelcase when it announced this week several cost cutting measures to weather current economic storms.
Tim Trunkle was a professional home inspector for 34 years and he’d seen it all; the good, the bad, and the really bad. That was sometimes true of the cabinets and cabinet installations that he saw. He came up with a solution to one of the problems he often saw.
The election of a new board, speakers and plant tours were among the highlights of the recent Wood Products Manufacturers Association annual meeting. Representatives from more than 35 companies attended the two-day event, held Oct. 5-6 in Virginia Beach, Virginia.
While the tip-over act, aka the STURDY Act, still sits waiting on action by the House, the Consumer Product Safety Commission has adopted a mandatory product safety rule that will significantly change the way clothing storage furniture is constructed, tested and labeled.