By Wayne Brown, Of the NEWS Staff e-mail WayneLast updated: Friday, November 1, 2002Houlton furniture firm to close, 50 joblessHOULTON - Houlton International Corp., which manufactures hardwood furniture components, will close its doors by the end of the year, putting more than 50 people out of work. Several companies that supplied hardwood logs to the firm also will be affected. The culprit, according to Peter Collett, company vice president, is foreign competition in the domestic furniture business, primarily from China. "They've got 30 percent of the domestic furniture market and are expected to double that in the next few years,"...