The American Home Furnishings Alliance (AHFA) released test results that it says confirm home furnishings containing engineered wood comply with California’s formaldehyde emission standard.

Georgia-Pacific will invest $110 million to upgrade to its Alabama River Cellulose (ARC) mill.

ATLANTA -- Georgia-Pacific announced a sales and distribution agreement with Lamco Forest Products for the production of laminated fingerjointed lumber (LFL) products, to be sold under the Georgia-Pacific brand.Based in Quebec, Lamco says it uses a patented process combining double tongue and groove and fingerjoints to produce the engineered wood structural building products. (See video, courtesy of Lamco.)[[{"type":"media","view_mode":"media_original","fid":"79176","attributes":{"alt":"","class":"media-image","typeof":"foaf:Image"}}]]

About ten percent of forest wood in Germany goes into engineered wood products. Manufacturers produce an average of some six million cubic meters of particle board, four million cubic meters of fiberboard and one million cubic meters of waferboard.

WholeTrees Architecture & Structures received state funds to launch a line of engineered building products using round timber. It has developed the technology to turn small diameter trees from routine forest thinning and fabricate them into structural building systems

Association President Ed Elias discusses how APA and the engineered wood industry viewed 2013 and what to expect in 2014.