WFB Briefs: Top Step Vents Sale; Floor & Decor Opens California Store; More

Sep 22, 2025

Top Step Vents is offering a 10% discount on all standard-sized vents purchased online. Use code WEB10 at checkout.
Floor & Decor (Atlanta) announced the grand opening of a store in Lancaster, Calif. The warehouse store and design center is located at 44765 Valley Central Way and will open with a team of about 23 employees led by April Barrera, the store's chief executive merchant.
Festool’s fall product line, which includes its FS-EZ 150 One-handed Clamp and the MB 40 mobile drilling attachment, is now shipping out to customers.

Pallmann’s Pall-X Now

Pallmann Releases Pall-X Now One-Component Finish

September 22, 2025

Misconceptions About Film-Forming Wood Floor Finishes

Misconceptions About Film-Forming Wood Floor Finishes

Weather Disasters Are Growing Force in Home Improvement Market

Hardwood Federation Asks For Feedback on Tariff Policies

Registration Open for MFMA 2026 Members-Only Conference in Orlando

Pallmann Releases Pall-X Now One-Component Finish

Pallmann’s Pall-X Now is a waterborne hardwood floor finish developed for residential use.

Pallmann’s Pall-X Now

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Meet the MFMA: Setting the Gold Standard in Sports Flooring

Maple Flooring Manufacturers Association

Since 1897, MFMA has led the way in high-performance, sustainable maple sports flooring. The MFMA is your go-to resource for best practices, product standards and support.

Meet the MFMA: Setting the Gold Standard in Sports Flooring

Weather Disasters Are Growing Force in Home Improvement Market

Climate- and weather‑related disasters are becoming a growing share of all remodeling spending, according to a recent report by Harvard’s Joint Center for Housing Studies.

Hardwood Federation Asks For Feedback on Tariff Policies

The Hardwood Federation is asking for feedback on how the current trade and tariff policies are impacting the U.S. hardwood industry.

Registration Open for MFMA 2026 Members-Only Conference in Orlando

Registration is open for the Maple Flooring Manufacturers Association’s members-only bi-annual conference that will take place Feb. 26–28, 2026, at the Caribe Royale in Orlando, Fla.

Vilas Partners Acquires Creative Tile & Hardwood Floors

Vilas Partners (Tampa Bay, Fla.) has acquired Creative Tile Concepts, DBA Creative Tile & Hardwood Floors (Naples, Fla.).

Robbins Releases Timber Legends Densified Hardwood

AHF Product’s brand Robbins released Timber Legends Densified Hardwood. Densified Hardwood is developed using a patented densification process that applies heat and pressure to close the open cells of natural hardwood.

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Dr. Hönle AG Rebrands Group of Companies to Hoenle AG

Dr. Hönle AG (Gilching, Germany) consolidated and rebranded its eight industrial UV and adhesives brands under the unified name "Hoenle."

Hoenle Name Change Rebranding

ABC: Contractor Confidence Unchanged, Construction Backlog Down in August

Associated Builders and Contractors’ Construction Backlog Indicator fell to 8.5 months in August, down 0.2 months since July and up 0.3 months since August 2024.

U.S. Department of Agriculture Proposes Rescinding Roadless Rule

Known as the Roadless Rule, it has protected 44.7 million acres of National Forest, mostly in Alaska and western U.S. states, for the past 24 years.

New Home Listings Fall To Record Low For August

New home listings were down 3.0% in August 2025 from August 2024 and down 7.3% from July, reaching a record low for August, according to Zillow’s market report.

Builder Confidence Unchanged at Low Level in September

While builder sentiment has hovered at a low reading between 32 and 34 since May, builders expressed optimism that a more favorable interest rate climate could bring hesitant buyers back to the market in the final quarter of 2025.

Single-Family Housing Starts Decreased 7% in August

Single-family housing starts decreased 7% from July to August to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 890,000 units—the lowest reading since July of 2024, according to a report from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and the U.S. Census Bureau.

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