Articles Tagged with ''furniture manufacturing''

HIGH POINT, NC—Furniture Brands International has completed the American Home Furnishings Alliance’s environmental management system at all of its domestic facilities, including plants, warehouses and offices. Under the system, facilities must improve management of resources and raw materials, reduce energy and water consumption, and reduce waste disposal and associated costs.

EVERGREEN, MT—Accurate Casework Industries, a manufacturer of office furniture, is expanding its assembly plant here, adding 21 jobs.

Finally, U.S. furniture manufacturers are slowly, but surely, gaining ground lost during the Great Recession.

La-Z-Boy is one of the best-known brands in the residential furniture industry. The company is synonymous for its comfortable reclining chairs. But, La-Z-Boy is also well-known for lean manufacturing and its made-in-the-USA production philosophy.

HIGH POINT, NC—U.S. furniture factory orders in April were 11 percent higher from the same month a year ago. The April results brought the year-to-date order increase to 3 percent.

SHELBY, NC—Furniture manufacturer Bernhardt Inc.is reopening an assembly plant here that had closed four years ago.

NETTLETON, MS—United Furniture Industries is growing the workforce at its assembly plant here by 25 percent. United, which makes sofas, loveseats and other upholstered furniture, already employs some 400 people.

HIGH POINT, NC—New factory orders for furniture in July were 4 percent above July 2011, and are up 4 percent year-to-date.

LAKEWOOD, WA—A three-alarm fire destroyed a furniture assembly plant here Tuesday morning.