Uniboard regional sales manager Sena Wilks will present "TFL: Exceptional Design, Durability and Sustainability in a High-Value Decorative Panel" during Closets Expo.

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.

VANCOUVER, British Columbia – ChopValue, a franchise model built on using recycled chopsticks to make furniture and other décor products, recently announced that it surpassed the recycling of 150 million chopsticks.The company estimated that the world-wide recycling effort translates into eliminating 7,302,600 kg CO2e from being emitted to the atmosphere.

Wood is apart of just about every aspect of our lives. It warms us, shelters us, helps cook our food, and the surface on which we eat that food. It is being used in space, medicine, glass and even more. It even can help pay our bills, and not just for those in the primary and secondary wood industry.In the last couple of years, wood has become a source material for credit and debit cards.

Further research reveals more opportunities for the wood industry.

The event will take place on August 7-8 at the Conference Center at the Guilford Technical Community College in Colfax, North Carolina.

Saint-Gobain, through its building materials subsidiary CertainTeed Siding, has achieved a 96% reduction (Scopes 1 & 2 only) in emissions from the manufacturing of polymer shakes, vinyl trim, millwork, and vinyl siding at its manufacturing facilities in McPherson, Kansas, Social Circle, Georgia, and Williamsport, Maryland, respectively.

Woodsafe Timber Protection AB, which said it is Europe's largest manufacturer of durable fire-resistant impregnated wood, and Thermory AS, reportedly the world's largest manufacturer of thermally modified wood, have collaborated on durable thermally modified fire-resistant wood. Thermory’s real wood products with fire protection are available immediately.

Manufactured in various dimensions with a wide range of physical properties, particleboard offers design flexibility and ease of fabrication for specifiers and end users.

MEMPHIS, Tenn. – Memphis Urban Wood is going back to the drawing board after cancelling plans to develop an urban lumber sawmill operation due to staunch opposition from some members of the community and Memphis City Council.According to WREG TV, Memphis Urban Wood proposed converting “a blighted property in North Memphis into a facility that would upcycle lumber into other useful products.” The operation would have created approximately 10 jobs to recycle trees removed due to age, storm of other causes.