Masonite is facing a securities class action lawsuit for allegedly failing to disclose, between June 2023 and February 2024, that it received acquisition offers from Owens Corning. While hiding these premium offers, the company repurchased nearly 270,000 shares for roughly $25 million at artificially lower prices, misleading investors, and allegedly earning millions on stock prices that later went up when it was revealed that Owens Corning was making a large offer on the company.

LOCKPORT, N.Y. — A local news station says that it has obtained an email purportedly from the owner of Candlelight Cabinetry, Andrew Olsen, that states that he has made progress working with new and existing partners to “sustain Candlelight well into the future.”Woodworking Network has reached out to Olsen via text message to enquire about the email and the progress he says he has made in obtaining financing from partners in an effort to catch up on all operations. Olsen has not responded to the Woodworking Network's message. 

On January 16, the U.S. Department of Commerce released its preliminary affirmative countervailing duty findings on hardwood and decorative plywood after identifying significant subsidies provided by the governments of China, Indonesia, and Vietnam.

Strauss Borrelli PLLC, a class action law firm, is investigating Kroehler Furniture Co. regarding its recent mass layoff in Conover, North Carolina. On December 30, 2025, Kroehler notified the North Carolina Department of Commerce of its decision to conduct a mass layoff at its facility in Conover. More than 200 workers were laid off two days later, on Dec. 31, 2025.

A group of Gloster residents has filed a federal lawsuit against Drax Biomass and its subsidiaries, alleging that the company’s Amite BioEnergy wood pellet facility in the town has, for nearly a decade, unlawfully released massive amounts of toxic pollutants into their community, violating the federal Clean Air Act and Mississippi law.

Three men have been arrested for allegedly robbing and assaulting an Amish family at their cabinet business and home, and allegedly threatened to kill the father and abduct his 8-year-old son. 

In a multi-state investigation, a Florida man was arrested and charged with money laundering and a fraud scheme after getting paid to build cabinets post-Hurricane Ian, and never doing the work.

Wellmade Performance Flooring was raided by federal law enforcement on suspicion of labor trafficking, freeing dozens of workers forced into “labor servitude.” The Aug. 13 story was the most-read story from August 13 to September 13.

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A man and woman have been arrested after allegedly scamming a victim out of more than $600,000 for “high-end Italian millwork” that was never delivered.