Gene Wengert answers questions about using whiskey barrels for furniture and also questions about green color in walnut, a solar wood dryer, paint on bacterial infected wood, color variations in oak.
The U.S. Court of International Trade ordered the U.S. Department of Commerce to redo countervailing duties on Canadian lumber, saying the department must better explain its refusal to check whether suppliers for investigated companies had received government subsidies.
National Wood Flooring Association (NWFA) and National Oak-Flooring Manufacturer's Association (NOFMA)-certified wood flooring is made by the NWFA manufacturing members that have pledged to uphold the NWFA/NOFMA standards.
Canfor Corporation plans to optimize its footprint in southern Alabama by permanently closing its Jackson facility and expanding production at its Fulton facility
with a second shift.
A team of USDA Forest Service specialists recently returned from Peru where they provided technical support to Peru’s Centers for Productive Innovation and Technology Transfer, universities and the private sector on wood structural design, durability, preservation and technological innovation.
Flooring manufacturer AHF Products has agreed to acquire two West Virginia sawmills to augment the supply of lumber to AHF’s Beverly, West Virginia, solid wood flooring manufacturing facility.