Vermont woodworkers and wood products manufacturers voted to change the trade association name to the Vermont Wood Works Council.

Whitewood Industries, a manufacturer and distributor of case goods, home furniture, and contract furnishings, has sold its privately-owned company to its employees through an Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP).

Last week, within hours after Trump announced the 25 percent tariff on steel and 10 percent on aluminum, many industries rose up in protest, said Gene Wengert, the Wood Dr. “Auto manufacturing indicated that this tariff would raise prices, affect sales and cause large (maybe 200,000) unemployment,” he said. “These industries responded within hours of Trump’s action. The stock market lost around 2 percent.”  

Stanley Furniture has completed the sale of substantially all of its assets to Churchill Downs LLC. As part of the agreement, the residential furniture manufacturer is changing its name to HG Holdings Inc.

Custom cabinet and millwork company makes special designs in its own cavern club.

Woodworking machinery from Swedish firm MOReTENs AB, including CNCs, table saws, and planers, becomes available through Wood-Mizer's global distribution network.

The Incident at Sparrow Creek Lumber is about an ex-cop who interrogates his fellow militiamen in a remote lumber mill to try to find out which one of them is a killer.

HIGH POINT, N.C. - Despite gains in October and November, residential furniture orders dropped 9% in December compared to the year prior,  according to the latest Furniture Insights survey of residential furniture manufacturers and distributors from Smith Leonard. December's drop is only the second time in 2017 where new orders decreased compared with the same month in the year prior.

Miller Manufacturing, a maker of high-speed lumber planers and equipment, will move into a facility double its current size. They will also double their staff.