National Hardwood Magazine - July 2011

News Developments
News about North American industrial Hardwood consumers and overseas updates,
including mergers, plant expansions, association activities and personnel
NATIONAL WOOD FLOORING ASSOCIATION
PRESENTS GREEN FLOOR AWARD
The National Wood Flooring Association (NWFA) recently
announced that Woodwright Hardwood Floor Co., Dallas, Texas, has
received an NWFA Environmental Craftsmanship Award.
The Environmental Craftsmanship Award recognizes professionally
installed wood floors that exhibit creative and responsible environmental
stewardship in their methods of installation, raw material
sourcing, and/or contributions to human well being in the indoor built
environment. Members of the environmental design community conducted
judging for the contest. The contest is open to any professional
wood flooring company.
NWFA is a non-profit trade organization, with more than 3,100
members worldwide, dedicated to educating consumers, architects,
designers, specifiers and builders in the uses and benefits of wood
flooring. Located at 111 Chesterfield Industrial Boulevard,
Chesterfield, Mo., 63005, the NWFA can be contacted at 800-422-
4556, or online at www.nwfa.org.
FAIRMONT DESIGNS ACQUIRES N.C. PLANT
Fairmont Designs, based in Hickory, N.C., recently acquired a former
Thomasville upholstery plant. A company representative said the
firm would use the plant to manufacture upholstery for its East Coast
accounts.
Paul Savicki has been named Vice President of Manufacturing. His
responsibilities will include overseeing the 210,000-square-foot operation.
Savicki’s previous experience comes from Bernhardt Furniture
where he was plant manager of the company’s contract seating division.
According to Savicki, the company will produce fully upholstered
sectionals, sofas, loveseats and chairs. Initially he expects 45 jobs to
be created with a possible growth of up to 70 by the end of the year.
President of Fairmont Designs, Brian Edwards, said the company
realized it needed an East Coast manufacturing presence to be competitive
in servicing East Coast accounts. “You can make it efficiently
wherever you are, but the cost of freight becomes a dictating factor
in how well you can be a value in the marketplace,” Edwards said. “If
we were going to service that part of the country and be competitive
in what we were offering, freight is a huge factor. That issue is being
resolved by having a facility in North Carolina.” For more information
visit www.fairmontdesigns.com.
AWC STATEMENT ON REQUEST OF EPA
TO STAY BOILER MACT AND CISWI RULES
The American Wood Council (AWC), headquartered in Washington,
D.C., issued the following statement following a broad coalition of
manufacturers’ requests to the Environmental Protection Agency
(EPA) to stay the Boiler MACT and Commercial Industrial Solid
CARL ROSENBERRY & SONS LUMBER, INC.
7446 Path Valley Road Fort Loudon, PA 17224 Phone: (717) 349-2289 FAX: (717) 349-2044
www.rosenberrylumber.com
Two automatic circle mills and line bar band resaw
Maintaining 700,000’ K.D. inventory and 1,000,000 bd. ft. of Green and Air Dried lumber
300,000 bd. ft. Kiln Capacity
KILN DRYING FINE PENNSYLVANIA HARDWOODS
ANNUAL PRODUCTION 7,000,000ʼ
75% Red and White Oak
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