American Leather Holdings LLC, a custom leather furniture manufacturer and portfolio company of Capital Partners Private Equity Income Fund II LP, has acquired Lee Industries.

Over a month has gone by since Hanjin Shipping Co. sought bankruptcy protection in South Korea, and the company’s customers are still battling to retrieve their stranded goods. Ashley Furniture is one of them.

Leitz Tooling has announced the passing of its long-standing chairman of the company's management board and former CEO Dr. Dieter Brucklacher. Brucklacher passed away on September 27 after a short illness. He was 77.

A manager of his uncle's wood shavings processing company was convicted of 13 federal felonies, for stealing and selling Long Beach Shaving's products and keeping the proceeds for himself.

Autodesk engineers Arthur Harsuvanakit and Brittany Presten have created a chair – but didn’t design it. They left that part to the company’s Dreamcatcher generative CAD system software.

Los Angeles-based residential furniture manufacturer Nova LifeStyle said in an SEC filing it made a share transfer agreement to sell its China manufacturing subsidiary for $8.5 million.

Architecture firms are beginning to feel the impact of labor shortage across the construction industry, according to the latest Architecture Billings Index issued in September.

The 2016 annual Architectural Woodwork Institute (AWI) convention taking place Sunday, October 23 until Tuesday, October 25 in Kansas City, Missouri will visit veneer firm C.S. Humphrey & Co. and RCS Millwork's 60,000 sq. ft. plant. The convention will also feature educational sessions, industry professional speakers, team building, networking, and over 50 industry-leading exhibitors.

The U.S. Forest Service has finalized a policy that it says will provide nationally consistent training, evaluation and certification requirements for the use of chain saws and crosscut saws on National Forest System lands.

Frank Miller Lumber, a manufacturer of quartersawn and plainsawn hardwoods, has acquired USA Woods International Inc., a Memphis-based wholesale American hardwood lumber exporter.