SALINE, Mich. -- Urban Ashes, a business committed to transforming fallen urban trees into lumber and other high-value products, has furthered its partnership with the City of Ann Arbor.

It was a bitter August for workers, customers and ownership at Klaussner Furniture Industries Inc. in North Carolina and Solid Comfort in North Dakota. The two companies, both ranked in the FDMC 300 ranking of largest North American woodworking shops, were seemingly there one day and gone the next.

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Raumplus, which got its start in sliding doors, also offers wardrobe and closet systems.

Scott Appel, the owner of Frontier Surfaces, which sells flooring, cabinets, counters, and millwork, has acquired Builder Flooring Solutions, a Pennsylvania-based contract flooring company that services builders, developers, and multifamily property owners.

 

NORFOLK, Va. — Over the past decade, an emerging threat has affected America's 1.3 million nursing home residents: Candida auris, a fungus that causes dangerous, often fatal, bloodstream infections. From the first case in 2013, this fungus is now the cause of over 2,300 cases, with a mortality rate of 30-60%.

A new report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine  has backed a 2022 U.S. Environmental Protection Agency draft toxicological risk assessment review that found formaldehyde to be a human carcinogen linked to cancers such as leukemia.

MISSISSAUGA, Ontario – Planit Canada’s “Be Awesome with Planit” software tour returns to the Woodworking Machinery & Supply Conference & Expo, Nov. 2-4 at the International Centre.