CORMO windows and doors manufacturing cooperative, in San Martino in Rio, Italy, was among woodworking companies who presented or were visited during SCM Group's 2011 Windows+Doors tech tour. It's headquarters and plant occupies over 700,000 square feet.

Newly rebuilt wood platforms on Chicago public transit lines are rotting prematurely, says a local government watchdog group. The platforms have required $300,000 in replacement of 10,000 square feet of Southern yellow pine decking at eight stations.