RIKON Power Tools Supports Woodworking Education at the AWFS Fair With Over $16,000 in Tool Donations to Nebraska and Colorado schools.

AWFS released the second poster in the 'Meet the New Face of Manufacturing' campaign, a comprehensive marketing effort to acquaint and interest young people in careers in wood products manufacturing.

Laguna Tools Inc. will introduce its Smartshop III CNC at booth 7411 in the 2015 AWFS Fair in July in Las Vegas, Nevada. Developed in partnership with FANUC, the SMARTSHOP III is powered by the most reliable, most advanced CNC control Technology in the automation industry.

Steady traffic from the opening bell of the AWFS Fair woodworking show offer promise of a solid turnout for the show's four-day run. With some indications that pre-registration was running as much as 33 percent ahead of the 2013 show, a number of exhibitors arrived at the Las Vegas with signed orders in their hands - a sign that the wood industry is ready to invest. Islands of innovation, including some surprises, appear all over the Las Vegas Convention Center.

Blum has added more installation options for its AVENTOS lift systems, by developing brackets alowing their use on face frame cabinets. Aventos face frame mounting brackets provide a fast and easy way to install Aventos lift systems in face frame cabinets.

The Las Vegas Convention Center is wood industry central for the next four days, with registration queues growing in anticipation of the opening of the AWFS Fair woodworking show at 9:00 sharp on July 22. Exhibitors hustled to uncrate woodworking machinery for sale, as forklifts sped through the halls. AWFS opens amid glowing Commerce Department reports of a housing starts surge in June.

At AWFS Fair 2015, HOLZ-HER will introduce five newly developed processing units for the upper range Accura and Lumina series edgebanders. This new range including the top/bottom trim unit, corner-rounding / shaping unit, profile scraping, finish scraping, and grooving units were developed with the target of 100% repetition accuracy.

Vexor Custom Woodworking Tools will exhibit for the first time at the 2015 AWFS Fair woodworking show. Vexor will show its custom cutting tool capabilities, and new corporate branding at AWFS, running July 22 – 25 in Las Vegas. Vexor (Booth #9146) will join hundreds of the nation's most popular woodworking tool manufacturers at one of the largest industry gatherings in the world.

Wood manufacturing technology firm Biesse says it strengthened its partnership with Eurosoft. For the past two years, Eurosoft and Biesse have worked together on systems integration in North America. This deal formalizes that relationship.