The woodworking industry continues to show signs of improvement. Is your business geared up to meet the challenge?

To ensure your wood products company has the tools and information it needs to increase not only its productivity, but more importantly its profitability, check out the manufacturing tips and techniques available in the 2013 Red Book Resource Guide for Best Practices. This one-of-a-kind guide is a key source to help your company optimize: solid wood machining, panel processing, tool selection and maintenance, gluing and pressing applications, sanding and finishing, software needs, dust collection and more.

In addition to the print format, the Red Book Resource Guide to Best Practices is available digitally, in a full-edition format as well as individual articles posted at WoodworkingNetwork.com. Keep checking back in the articles’ section on the site as we’ll continue to post relevant content year round.

The resource guide also links with RedBookOnline.com, a 24/7 searchable database of more than 2,000 manufacturers and exclusive distributors to more than 600 types of woodworking equipment and supplies. Navigating through the directory’s categories is like a virtual plant tour: lumber and solid wood machining/rough mill area, to the panel processing cell, to the laminating/veneering/pressing area, finishing and sanding room, to the components and assembly area. Plant operations is the umbrella for shop-wide operations such as software, moisture control, dust collection/spark detection, services etc.

RedBookOnline.com’s advanced capabilities also enables searches via a drop-down menu or by typing specific keywords. Specification charts on 23 types of equipment and supplies also can be downloaded for quick comparisons.

A third component to keeping your company informed of new products and technology is the weekly Red Book Alerts. If you don’t already receive them, sign up now at WoodworkingNetwork.com.

Use the Red Book: It can help you grow your bottom line.