Source: Virginia Annable, HICKORY RECORD, 12/29/20


In furniture factories today, companies tout their cleaner atmospheres, well-lit plant floors and skilled positions they’re looking to fill. Technology enhances the work. Twenty years ago, the furniture industry was much different. At the turn of the century, a large chunk of the furniture manufacturing jobs in the Catawba Valley were building case goods — wooden furniture or frames. Within 10 years, the majority of those jobs moved offshore, Craftmaster Furniture President and CEO Roy Calcagne said in a December interview.

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