CAMBRIDGE, MA – Strong growth in home improvement and maintenance expenditures is expected to continue over the coming year, according to the Leading Indicator of Remodeling Activity (LIRA) compiled by the Remodeling Futures Program at the Joint Center for Housing Studies of Harvard University.  The LIRA projects year-over-year gains in annual improvement and repair spending will reach 9 percent in the fourth quarter and maintain that pace into 2022.

Scott Ries, who was well known in the woodworking industry as a diamond tooling expert, died October 8, 2021. He was 63. Ries spent his entire working lifetime in the industrial diamond industry during an exciting phase of growth often connected to increased use of diamond tooling in CNC machining for woodworking.

Four Girl Scouts earned their Silver Awards with a woodworking project conceived and created in memory of the late great-grandmother of one of the teens and accomplished with help from a local woodworking shop.

MOSCOW, Idaho — The University of Idaho is developing technology to turn Idaho wood waste into architectural millwork and construction materials on the market — by using it as a medium for 3D-printing. An interdisciplinary research team led by College of Engineering Assistant Professor Michael Maughan has been awarded nearly $4 million from the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) EPSCoR Research Infrastructure Improvement Program.

FLANDERS, Belgium -- Timber is a renewable product and stores CO2 as long as it is not incinerated. So the longer timber can be used and reused, the more our climate benefits.

Students completed a joinery-focused project and received "goodie bags" during MFG Day.

Kebony has demonstrated strong year-on-year growth, and will use the funding to expand and scale across the European and US markets

VANCOUVER, BC -- After slowing down in the summer, sales of new US single-family homes rocketed up by +14%, while the median price of newly built houses increased by even more, compared to the previous month, according to Madison's Lumber Reporter There were 800,000 new U.S. homes sold in September, which is up +14% from a significantly downwardly-corrected 702,000 in August, and is down -18% from 971,000 in September 2020.

Although new residential furniture orders dropped 14% in August compared to 2020 figures, they are up 30% over 2019 figures. Year-to-date new orders are up double-digits over both 2020 and 2019 figures, according to the latest issue of Furniture Insights.

The Home Depot's 2021 annual list of most innovative products included a ventilated wire closet system from Everbilt.