You’ve finished your project, and you’re pleased with the way it turned out. Now, what do you do with all those leftover MDF scraps? If you would normally throw them out or let them collec...
Did you know Columbia and its distribution partners’ investment in FSC® Chain-of-Custody certification assures you with a supply of FSC® Mix PureBond® NAF hardwood plywood across Nor...
Everyone knows that 2023 was the year of pink. From ice cream to clothes to toys, Barbie fever took over. It may not be a struggle for you to recall the week your friends and families were rushing to ...
One of life’s small gifts I greatly enjoy is the beauty of a foggy morning. Dew glistening on the grass. Rays of sun that pierce through the mist like stained glass. The peace and quiet as the s...
Since I was a young boy, basketball has been my favorite sport. I remember playing against second- and third graders when I was in kindergarten in New York because I was a bit taller and more skilled ...
When I was a teenager, my high school basketball coach had a saying he used almost every practice: “Don’t play outside yourself. Do what you do best.” One time, I took a bit of a wil...
I used to collect sports cards as a kid, begging my mother to buy my brothers and me a pack at the store. I’d look into all the nooks and crannies for some quarters to buy a pack and put basebal...
How the University of Cincinnati Leveraged our Plywood “That’s doing it right!” thought Columbia’s Field Sales Representative Bob Stiles when he toured the new $120 million hom...
Many of you enjoyed the story of the Fossmobile in our last issue – here’s a story on the project that recently aired on Canada’s CTV News . You can catch a glimpse of our Radi...
Columbia’s Old Fort Facility Celebrates a Major Milestone When Columbia Forest Products broke ground on its Old Fort, NC mill in 1981, the company had its sights set on doing things never done b...
Awards Highlight Diverse and Enduring Commitment to Forest Conservation MINNEAPOLIS – Forest Stewardship Council, the world’s most trusted forest certification system, announced its 10 th ...
Medium-density fiberboard (MDF) has long been used as a durable, reliable and cost-effective composite panel option in construction and woodworking projects. MDF offers all kinds of solutions to build...
The Architect Architect Robert Garneau, a founding partner of Architecture Workshop PC , was tasked with renovating a modest prewar apartment in Manhattan’s Chelsea neighborhood by former ABC Si...
PureBond has always been a popular choice for living spaces because of its natural beauty, formaldehyde-free technology and ease of fabrication. Since its 2005 inception, PureBond has gained many inte...
2021 continues to present challenges for supply chains of many industries. From lumber to retail goods to copper to housing, the massive decline in demand from COVID-19 shutdowns and the subsequ...
2020 is the type of year that can make or break those of us whose job is to predict future events with a high degree of accuracy and precision. These “black swan” events, from the CO...
Happy New Year to everyone. Hopefully your 2022 is off to a good start and some of the chaos of the past two years will start to calm down a bit! Many of my past reports have dealt with new housing st...
I thought I would switch up the format in this quarter’s article to cover some of the issues I’ve recently been asked about by co-workers and our customers. I don’t have the space to...
For the first time since I began writing this article for Columbia, I received requests from readers to provide an outlook for the remainder of 2023 and all of 2024 for the macro economy and the domes...
With headlines about GDP, arguments about definitions of recession and whether or not we are in a recession (we won’t get into that today), inflation at the highest levels in my lifetime (based ...