The wedge-dowel components have the potential to trim back assembly time of Ikea furniture by up to eighty percent, and "will likely replace a lot of the fittings and tools you get with each piece of Ikea furniture," says the company in a video, explaining the innovation. Ann-Karin Sjorgen was product developer on a Lisabo table using it.

Ikea will pay $50 million to settle liability claims of three families whose toddlers were killed when dressers tipped over and crushed them.Ikea, which sources 70 percent of its U.S. offerings from domestic manufacturers, recalled the dressers after the third death was reported in February.

In a new campaign, Swedish furniture giant Ikea has renamed its products to the most common Google searches about relationship problems.

After facing public pressure when tipping-over furniture killed three children in the U.S., IKEA has extended its recalls to China.

After six children were killed by falling furniture in the U.S. – three of which took place in the last two years – IKEA is recalling over six million dressers in Canada.

Philadelphia personal injury firm Feldman Shepherd says IKEA was pushed to recall dressers by lawsuits it filed on behalf of the toddlers' families, suits that allege that IKEA designed and sold dangerous and defective dressers, including the MALM dresser line, which do not meet the furniture industry's minimum safety standard for stability.

IKEA recalled 29 million Malm and other dressers and chests after a third tip-over incident. In February 2016, a 22-month-old child was entrapped and died. IKEA is moving beyond a repair kit remediation program launched in 2015. It covers furniture made between January 2002 and June 2016.

IKEA has unveiled furniture made from reclaimed wood and other recycled materials. The furniture giant’s new line of kitchen cabinets is to be made from reclaimed wood planks and laminate coating made from recycled plastic bottles. The line, called Kungsbacka, will launch in February 2017.

The man who brought IKEA's furniture manufacturing to the United States, Jorgen Lindquist has been appointed the president of Södra Wood.

John McDonald, founder of IKEA cabinet hacking Semihandmade, will launch new inkjet printed cabinet door styles, in a line called "Print." McDonald previewed the designs last month in his Cabinets & Closets 2016 keynote.