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Will Your Framing Crew Measure Up When the Housing Boom Hits?

While the price of framing remains highly competitive, will your crews have the tools and skilled craftsmen to lead the pack? Is meeting ever increasing quality and lead time demands, coupled with a lack of top notched framers going to handicap you? Will ever narrower margins eat into your profits, just as the markets look to be turning around?

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Beckhoff at Hannover Messe 2013

With the guiding theme “Integrated Industry”, the Hannover Messe 2013 is setting course toward the future: the focus is on the networking of all industrial sectors, and the integration of IT and automation technology.

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DendroLight Ligna 2013 Highlights

We would like to invite you to our corner in the common stand in Hall 17, Stand D42 of igeL (Lightweight Construction Association) at LIGNA HANNOVER 2013 in Germany from May 6 to May 10. At the stand you can get to know the highly engineered timber products DendroLight®, their qualities and applications.

LEICHT Küchen Puts Trust in Latest Batch-Size-1 Machines from IMA

The German kitchen manufacturer LEICHT Küchen AG from now on relies on the latest production technology from IMA. The traditional company located in Baden-Württemberg, Southern Germany, has invested in a highly flexible batch-size-1 work cell for the production of carcase elements and fronts. The purchase of the machines, which are equipped with the latest technology, comes along with a realignment of the production. With the new investment, LEICHT has optimized the entire production process, where parts shall be processed in an integrated line. The order volume is about 11 million euros.

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Interzum 2013: U.S. Hardwoods and Sustainable Design

The American Hardwood Export Council (AHEC) has published a comprehensive report on the environmental life cycle of delivering U.S. hardwood lumber into overseas markets. The case study of American hardwoods discusses putting LCA at the center of sustainable design.