Panels add visual interest these days by incorporating texture. The uneven surface of lightly finished wood adds shadow to the play of light. Laminate panel producers are mimicking this trend – texturizing surfaces to correspond to the visual wood grain pattern.

ARAUCO has resumed plywood operations at its Nueva Aldea Industrial Forestry Complex plant approximately two years after a devastating forest fire destroyed the facility.

UNIBOARD launched Woodprint, a textured Thermo Fused Laminate, at the Woodworking Machinery & Supply Expo in Toronto last week. Surface replicates real wood by synchonizing texture with image on th decor paper laminate.

Don Raymond, Vice President of Marketing & Sales for Uniboard, discusses the company's exciting new Woodprint, the first synchronized textured thermofused laminate panels introduced at the 2013 Woodworking Machinery & Supply Expo in Toronto.

UNIBOARD, a North American leader in engineered wood products, announces today that it is launching a revolutionary new TFL product at the Woodworking Machinery & Supply Expo on October 24th – 26th 2013.

Flakeboard released its 2012 sustainability report, its first since being purchased by Arauco.

Mohawk Industries Inc. recently cemented its place as a global leader in laminate flooring in completing its purchase of Pergo from Pfleiderer for $150 million in cash.

The wood panel companies represented by the new executive board of the Composite Panel Association reads like a who's who in mega mergers and acquisitions of 2012.

The former Uniboard 'mega' MDF mill in Moncure, NC, now owned by Arauco, has earned exp, a global engineering firm headquartered in Brampton, an environmental award.

Exp, a global engineering firm headquartered in Brampton has won the Schreyer Award at the 2012 Canadian Consulting Engineering Awards, held on October 23 in Ottawa.