Paul Sova, president of Showplace Wood Products, was elected president of the Kitchen Cabinet Manufacturers Association. Sova says KCMA will reset its goals. "We have a good story to tell; we are on the way back and on the rebound.”

Most viewed this week: Cabinetry sales of $4.7 billion for 2012, were up 7.3% versus 2011, says KCMA. Sales for December 2012 jumped 15.2%. Topping that was a woodworking robot and a carpenter's claim to the throne of Richard III.

According to the Kitchen Cabinet Manufacturers Association’s monthly Trend of Business Survey, participating cabinet manufacturers reported sales totaling $4.7 billion for 2012 up +7.3 percent compared to total sales for 2011.

Cabinetry manufacturers reported sales of $4.7 billion for 2012, up 7.3 percent compared to 2011, reports the Kitchen Cabinet Manufacturers Association. Sales for December 2012 jumped 15.2 percent.

After closing 2012 on a positive note for the first time in six years, expectations for 2013 cabinet sales are upbeat as the economy continues to improve.

Dick Titus, executive director of the Kitchen Cabinet Manufacturers Association, offers additional comments on the state of the industry.

Wood industry associations are taking sides over the hardwood plywood antidumping petition against China.

The American Alliance for Hardwood Plywood (AAHP) today applauded the Kitchen Cabinet Manufacturers Association's (KCMA) formal opposition to a petition filed with the International Trade Commission by some of the world's largest producers of hardwood plywood.

The Kitchen Cabinet Manufacturers Association (KCMA) has revamped its Environmental Stewardship Program (ESP) Web site, www.GreenCabinetSource.org, to further educate the industry and the public on what’s happening with the only holistic environmental stewardship program in the cabinet manufacturing industry.