The American Home Furnishings Alliance has awarded Ethan Allen its Sustainable by Design registration, recognizing the manufacturer and retailer's environmentally friendly manufacturing processes. The company also has expanded its ...
The American Home Furnishings Alliance is launching a new web site today to correspond with tonight's airing of "Toxic Hot Seat," an HBO documentary about the use of fire-retardant chemicals in furniture. The documentary shows the ...
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The North American Home Furnishings Assn. has put out a call for nominations for its 2014 Retailer of the Year awards. Nominations are due by Dec. 1 and awards will be presented June 1 at the annual Home Furnishings Networking Conference ...
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Trends for outdoor and patio furniture are big on lots of fresh color, new neutrals, motion furniture and attention to detail. Just the simple of fact of heading out into the sunshine after having been cooped is cause enough for ...
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U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission Chairman Inez Tenenbaum told furniture manufacturers this week that it is committed to developing a national upholstered furniture flammability standard that does not require the use of harmful ...
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Furniture First buying group elected new board members Ken Paul of FrontRoom Furnishings in Columbus, Ohio, and Richard Talsma of Talsma Furniture in Hudsonville, Mich., to two-year terms during the group's general membership and annual ...
SACRAMENTO, Calif. - California's Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment has removed Bisphenol A, or BPA, from its list of Proposition 65 toxic chemicals. The move came following an April 18 preliminary injunction to delist the ...
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The American Home Furnishings Alliance's Pat Bowling will speak on safety and environmental issues during the spring High Point Market. Bowling, vice president of communications for the AHFA, will offer a 30-minute presentation on April ...
Proposed revisions to a voluntary tip-over standard used by many case goods manufacturers became clearer this week. The revisions would update how far a dresser or chest's drawers should be pulled out during tip-over testing. The rule ...
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Furniture makers should speak up now if they have concerns with California's new upholstered flammability rule, a top California official told an industry audience here last week. Tonya Blood, chief of the California Bureau of Home ...
Furniture makers should speak up now if they have concerns with California's new upholstered flammability rule, a top California official told an industry audience here last week. Tonya Blood, chief of the California Bureau of Home ...
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Ocean transportation, trucking and a host of other supply chain management topics are on the agenda for the 2013 Global Supply Chain Management conference sponsored by the American Home Furnishings Alliance. The event takes place Feb. 21 ...
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California's new proposed upholstered furniture flammability rule could give furniture manufacturers until mid-2014 to meet its requirements. The second draft of the new Technical Bulletin 117 rule, uses a ...
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HIGH POINT — The California official heading revisions to that state's longtime flammability regulation and the scientist whose research prompted the urgent regulatory overhaul will both participate in the American Home Furnishings ...
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ROSEVILLE, Calif. — Board members of the three largest industry retailer associations - the National Home Furnishings Assn., the Western Home Furnishings Assn. and the Home Furnishings Independents Assn. - have agreed to merge the ...
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