“We’re here.” That was the message from World Millwork Alliance president and CEO Rosalie Leone this week, as the association proceeded—in person—with its annual trade show. After sitting out a year and proceeding with a virtual platform in 2020, “Two years is just too long,” Leone declared. While the event failed to gather as many […]

When members of the door, moulding and millwork industry gathered last week to talk about the current state of the market, a few themes reigned supreme. Door sales are robust, companies are busy serving current customers, rather than looking for or taking on new ones, and huge challenges in material availability, particularly lumber, prevail. This […]

World Millwork Alliances’ Annual Convention and Tradeshow is no International Builders Show. It doesn’t pack numerous exhibit halls the size of football fields. (Getting from one side to the other is more like reaching a first-down marker.) But the show also doesn’t carry the fat of outlying products, consumers and services—all of which can clutter […]

Earlier this year some members of the Moulding & Millwork Producers Association (MMPA) set out on an international journey, traveling to France to learn about the millwork market there and also to attend the Carrefour DuBois trade show in Nantes. The group began in Paris for a day of sightseeing, and then traveled to the […]