Furniture Buying Craze Sparks Renewed Demand for Skilled Labor

Unlike many businesses, these furniture manufacturers are buzzing overtime in Hickory, North Carolina, the furniture manufacturing capital of America! Furniture is being shipped out faster than it can be built, with consumers spending record amounts of money on home furnishings. But there isn’t enough skilled labor to keep up with demand. So they turn to North Carolina’s Catawba Valley Furniture Academy, a community college where instructors teach a new generation the craft of furniture building.