Sauder Woodworking is among 18 companies, including 3M, protesting a surcharge levied by Ohio's First Energy Solutions. The companies told the Public Utility Commission of Ohio the so-called "Polar Vortex" charge was unfair, because they group have negotiated flat rates.

IKEA is being sued for $25 million by a now shuttered Canadian furniture manufacturer for breach of contract. Its couch appears on the Big Bang Theory television show.

Home remodeling and marketing partnerships will drive its WoodTrac division closet components and ceiling panels business, says Sauder Woodworking. The ready-to-assemble king has made rapid-fire acquisitions and a big deal with IKEA.

Sauder Woodworking is expected to create 150 new full-time jobs in Archbold, OH, with the aid of job tax credits approved by the Ohio Tax Credit Authority.

Shellac bugs, beer hammers and screw starters intrigued woodworkers, but the industry was was riveted by Sauder Woodworking's coup: a 5-year contract expansion to build furniture for IKEA.

IKEA inks a 5-year deal with Sauder Woodworking for furniture production. Sauder's Archbold, OH plant already produces IKEA kitchen cabinets. It now will hire 150 and invest $13 million to build furniture lines.

IKEA expands production done for it by Sauder Woodworking's Archbold, OH plant. Currently producing kitchen cabinets, the Sauder Woodworking plant will add four furniture lines.

Sauder Manufacturing, which produces church furniture, healthcare furniture and education furniture, acquired Richmond, VA-based Butler Woodcrafters.