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Karen Koenig
Editor

Karen M. Koenig has more than 30 years of experience in the woodworking industry, including visits to wood products manufacturing facilities throughout North America, Europe and Asia. As editor of special publications under the Woodworking Network brand, including the Red Book Best Practices resource guide and website, Karen’s responsibilities include writing, editing and coordinating of editorial content. She is also a contributor to FDMC and other Woodworking Network online and print media owned by CCI Media. She can be reached at [email protected]

WOOD 100 Honorees

12 ways technology improves profits: WOOD 100 Strategies for Success

Opportunity awaits for those woodworking firms that are willing to invest in their future. Enhancing productivity and quality through new technology, are just a few of the strategies put in place by these 2016 WOOD 100 companies. Read below to find out the investments being made by architectural woodworkers, cabinet manufacturers, furniture producers and component makers to improve their production rates and profits.

WOOD 100 Honorees

Want more customers? 17 strategies to improve service: WOOD 100

Good customer service is key when it comes to retaining, as well as obtaining, customers. Today's wood products manufacturers must also work harder, smarter and faster than their competitors. What follows are some of the customer service strategies put in place by manufacturers of wood components, cabinetry, architectural woodwork and furniture. Read all the 2016 WOOD 100: Strategies for Success

Pricing & Supply

Two Rivers Lumber $65 million startup brings jobs to Alabama

Plans are underway for the startup of Two Rivers Lumber Co.'s first sawmill, a $65 million investment that will bring 55 jobs initially, and up to 95 jobs eventually, to west Alabama. When completed, the mill will have an annual capacity of 200 million board feet and produce southern yellow pine dimensional lumber for sale throughout the United States.