Employees of Prestige Flooring located in Fenton, Mo., worked with the National Wood Flooring Association (NWFA) to install 900 square feet of flooring in a Habitat for Humanity home in November. The crew members installing the flooring ...
Following significant growth rates in the first and second quarters of 2013, Universal Forest Products (UFP) achieved a further turnover increase of 22.2% to US$651.8m between July and September. At the same time the operating result ...
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The Canadian timber group Canfor has set up a joint venture company together with the Chinese company Tangshan Caofeidian Wood Industry. According to a press report issued by Canfor on 26 November, each company is to hold 50% of shares in ...
Tags: Construction, wood
German exports of rough-sawn softwood lumber in the third quarter were 6% higher than in the same quarter of last year at 1.433m m3. Data from the Federal Statistics Office in Wiesbaden shows that deliveries to countries outside Europe rose ...
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In the third quarter of 2013, US-American hardwood-lumber exports showed year-on-year growth similar to that achieved in the first half of the year. Total deliveries up to the end of September, at 2.548m m3, therefore increased by 8% year ...
Tags: Construction, Decoration, Hardwood-Lumber
Unless you’ve been living in South America these past few years, the Ford EcoSport will be an unfamiliar name. With the popularity of SUVs showing no signs of waning, however, the new-generation version of the EcoSport, like most ...
Canfor saw its positive performance compared with last year continue in the third quarter as well. The Lumber business again fared much better than the Pulp and Paper division, as it had in previous quarters. Altogether the group raised its ...
Tags: Construction, Decoration
The Chicago Floorcovering Association (CFA) will hold the first joint WFCA-CFI installation event, dubbed “the WFCA-CFI Installation Extravaganza,” on Jan. 14. According to Tom Shepardson, CFA president, “We welcome ...
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Green flooring options are becoming more and more popular each year. Flooring manufacturers have, understandably, taken a two-pronged approach to green flooring options, developing new products and more aggressively marketing current ...
Virginia Gov. Bob McConnell's office has announced that a Chinese furniture manufacturer is investing $2.1 million in a new subsidiary here that will create 125 jobs. Lioyang Ningfeng Woodenware Co. Ltd. is establishing a subsidiary ...
Tags: Furniture, Furnishing
As wood products companies continue to come under scrutiny for the sourcing of their lumber, it becomes even more important for companies importing wood into the United States to participate in programs that support the use of legally ...
Tags: Construction, Decoration
Noel Perry of FTR Associates is holding up four fingers and one thumb. He had asked a room full of Ontario trucking executives, rhetorically, “how many dry van carriers or reefer carriers have the capability to bid - in a big way - on ...
Thursday, Nov 21, 2013 Houston Energy will operate the #1 Lutcher & Moore Lumber. The well should spud in late December 2013. The prospect is a Cockfield oil prospect generated from recently license 3D seismic.
Hard working Americans from across the U.S. have been honoured in a short-form documentary series, Unsung, that tells the stories of the often overlooked labourer and how their work and lifestyles intertwine. Shell Rotella has debuted ...
Wooden Shipping Pallets are what wea€re all about! We have been dealing with them for so many years that now we can accurately find out what pallets work best for each of our clients, and we offer plenty of services for all your pallet ...
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