Built to Sell: How to Keep Revenue Streams Flowing and Growing

Growing your wood manufacturing business depends on many factors—with three key drivers fundamental to success: Revenue goals scaled to your business model; target markets matched to your product mix; and sustainable capital resources secured.  Let’s flash forward to this future state—or revisit your current reality: You’ve fully automated your business. High-level production is a constant. The product your […]

North American Plywood Introduces DesignPly System

DesignPly, a new program of multiple-finish birch plywood panels and components, is being introduced by Santa Fe Springs, CA-based North American Plywood Corp. North American Plywood Corporation’s new DesignPly program offers an eco-friendly, highly customizable and quick-to-market line of plywood in multiple finishes, including French oak, weathered oak, white oak, sapele and red birch. “Plywood […]

High Point Furniture Market Continues Rebound

Even as the overall market for home furnishings products, including wooden case goods, remains soft, the leading trade show for the sector showed a 6% increase in registrations. Reflecting the overall housing market and rising interest rates, the home furnishings sector remains soft, off significantly from the boom years of the pandemic when Americans spent […]

Has the Housing Market Bottomed Out?

Several new reports are suggesting that the U.S. housing market may have started a slow return, even as interest rates continue to stymie new home construction. Single-family housing sales, one of the best barometers for both the larger American economy as well as the construction sector, hit a one-year high in March, surging 9.6% to […]

Inflation Drove Subcontractor Spending up $97 Billion Above Plan in 2022

New research shows that U.S. subcontractors spent $97 billion more on materials and labor last year than they had planned in 2022, impacting their profitability. It’s well-known that inflation has driven up the cost of just about everything but the figures from a new study of subcontractor spending puts a hard – and troubling – […]

If IKEA Built Mass Timber Office Buildings This Is How It Would Go

It may not have been the original idea, but a new mass timber office building just completed in Portland, OR was prefabricated at a factory in Austria and flat-packed to the building site where it was assembled. The mass timber segment of the building trade got a new twist recently when a just-completed three-story office […]