Over time, we’ve become a disposable society — even in woodworking production. Instead of maintaining and servicing tools, we’re often quicker to toss them out and buy new ones.

How HNTB and OFS transformed a practice space into a strategic asset for top recruits.

Hackberry is a lumber species that does not stand on its own too often. Rather, it has been used as a substitute for red oak, ash or elm. Indeed, hackberry has strong grain and porous structure, so it is quite similar to these other three species.

The Wood Doctor also answers questions on the red in red oak, controlling carpenter bees, and cracks in Eastern white pine.

Two years ago, a family-owned furniture manufacturer lost one of its factories to a fire. The company is celebrating its new facility's grand opening this month.

Research that could have been beneficial to the health and safety of workers in the engineered stone countertop industry was abruptly halted due to a gutting of the agency conducting the research.The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, or NIOSH, is expected to lose upwards of 900 employees, the vast majority of its staff, by early July as a result of the mass firings carried out by Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. 

At full capacity, the facility will divert tens of thousands of tons of wood waste from landfills each year—converting it into renewable biomass to power local industries, support utility decarbonization, and reduce methane emissions from decomposing wood.