Shaw Industries Group Inc. has announced it will become the exclusive provider of synthetic turf material used by ClosureTurf LLC, an Atlanta-based landfill closure systems provider.
Social housing and benefit services are set to be hit by a national day of strike action on Wednesday over Government plans to make public sector workers work longer, pay more and get less on retirement.
According to the U.S. Commerce Department, sales of newly built, single-family homes inched up 1.3 percent to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 307,000 units in October.
New Zealand's largest carpet maker Godfrey Hirst says it may move some of its manufacturing to China or India after a wool processor was given the green light to potentially gain monopoly of the domestic wool scouring industry.
Though the overall housing market has not escaped the doldrums, the senior housing sector, driven by investment companies, has gone gangbusters since 2010.
After a year characterized by grumpy partisan gridlock, Congress came up with a Thanksgiving compromise that could change the mortgage choices of buyers and refinancers in more than 660 markets across the country.