Warren Buffett Likes Home Builders…and Proves It

The world’s most famous – and most closely watched – investor is apparently feeling good about big home building companies and he’s put his money where his mouth is with new major financial commitments. There isn’t an individual investor more closely followed by those who play the stock market and just anyone looking for broader […]

Let’s Get Small, Home Builders Saying

Maybe the tiny home phenomenon has peaked or at least slowed down the past few years but the size of the average American home continues to be a case of the incredible shrinking house. Maybe all those McMansions will eventually end up as historical preservation candidates as the typical American new home continues to get […]

Planes, Trains and Trucks: It’s Getting More Expensive However You Ship Your Goods

We’ve already seen labor settlements with port workers and truckers that will result in higher transportation costs. Now come container costs, seasonal surcharges, and even lower water levels in the Panama Canal. It’s been a tough year if you’re in a business that needs to move its products around the country…and around the world. After […]

Cobots Revolutionizing Woodworking: A New Era of Collaboration

Warp-speed technology advances are transforming the woodworking industry thanks to the emergence of collaborative robots—often referred to as cobots. These innovative machines, such as the UR10e Arm by Universal Robots and the Productive Robotics OB7, are ushering in a new era of efficiency and safety in woodworking. Collaborative robots are not your typical industrial robots. […]

A ‘Purpose-Designed’ Handtruck Latest from PaintLine

Long-distance transportation may be challenged but shops have a new solution for transporting newly finished doors: PaintLine’s new purpose-designed Handtruck. PaintLine has just added a “purpose-designed” Handtruck to its recently introduced ProDryingRack Transport (PDRTR) system, which provides a solution for safely and conveniently transporting newly finished cabinet doors. The PDRTR fits up to 20 cabinet […]

California Builders Have a New Challenge: Embodied Carbon Laws

Already the state with the strictest environmental laws in the country, California has enacted new mandatory measures in its building codes to reduce embodied carbon. California has become the first state in the country to enact new building codes that limit carbon emissions in the construction, remodeling, or adaptive use of certain structures. According to […]