Office Furniture Industry Finalizing Sustainability Standard
A new national sustainability standard for office furniture makers could become a template for other industries to use in developing their own guides for building efficiency into their processes. Herman Miller Inc. President and CEO Brian Walker, in a recent interview, said the standard allows manufacturers already involved in sustainability to go even further, while [...]
Furniture Sustainability Standard Open For Comment
BIFMA and NSF partnered on the development of this standard over a year ago gathering a broad and diverse group of stakeholders in the consensus process. ANSI mandates openness, balance, due process, consensus, and a right to appeal in the development of consensus standards. Representatives from academia, the A&D community, end users, regulatory agencies, federal [...]
Ghana Strives to Remain Competitive in Global Timber Market
Professor Nii Ashie Kotey, Chief Executive of the Forestry Commission, said on Thursday that current trends in the country’s timber industry required strategic innovations including the pooling of resources in order to remain competitive on the global market.
He as a result, he lauded the rebirth of the Ghana International Furniture and Woodworking Industry Exhibition (GIFEX) [...]
Furniture Makers Are Getting Creative
Steel prices up 300% during the last five years, experts say, and 50% in the last nine months alone have already affected industry players such as Leggett & Platt, which makes furniture swivels and coil springs. The Missouri company has had to raise prices on some recliner mechanisms three times in as many months. “Metal [...]
Cebu furniture makers consider South Africa as export market
APART from tapping upscale market segments in Europe, Russia and the Middle East, furniture exporters in Cebu are also considering venturing into the South African market.
Cebu Furniture Industries Foundation Inc. (CFIF) president Eric Vincent Casas said the group is eyeing South Africa as a growing market for its products, since there are already Philippine-made products, [...]
Troubled Berkeley Youth Find Outlet in Furniture Decoration
A new non-profit in Berkeley is creating some unlikely artists out of homeless and at-risk youth.
Youth Spirit Artworks is a new non-profit–patterned after a similar program in New Orleans.
“We are involving youth in learning about commercial art through painting chairs,” said the group’s Executive Director Sally Hindman.
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Council approves DDA funds for Town Square’s furniture
Sometimes it pays to have friends in high places.
And due to Empire Deli owner John Colombani’s connections, the city of Northville is getting quite a deal on furniture for the Town Square.
City council approved funding for the DDA’s initial purchases of the furniture at Monday night’s meeting.
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