Raymour & Flanigan Furniture, the largest furniture retail chain in the Northeastern U.S., has bid $1.3 million to take over the lease of a Toys R Us store in New Jersey.
Westervelt Co., a lumber producer primarily producing Southern Yellow Pine, will build a new lumber mill in Southern Alabama, creating 100 jobs and producing over 250 million feet of lumber annually.
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Frontline Tooling Solutions, one of North America's largest providers of cutting tools and sharpening services, has announced the launch of two new businesses: Peak ToolWorks and MaxxLife. Both businesses will streamline Frontline's products and services to the marketplace.
Woodworking machinery giant Homag has teamed with Kuka, a German manufacturer of industrial robots, in an effort to expand the presence of advanced robotics in the woodworking industry.
Katerra, a high-tech construction firm, has secured $865 million in funding from SoftBank Vision Fund. That money will go toward ongoing projects in the U.S., like the company's planned cross-laminated timber plant in Washington, as well as research & development activities.