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Karl Forth

Karl D. Forth is online editor for CCI Media. He also writes news and feature stories in FDMC Magazine, in addition to newsletters and custom publishing projects. He is also involved in event organization, and compiles the annual FDM 300 list of industry leaders. He can be reached at [email protected].

IWF News

What about water-based coatings? Find out at IWF 2016 Finishing Symposium

ATLANTA - Waterborne wood coatings can provide lower VOCs (volatile organic compounds), HAPS (hazardous air pollutants) and toxicity, while offering improved pigment loading, improved productivity and output. Waterborne wood finishes will be discussed by Nick Bartoszek, global director, new product development for Sherwin-Williams at the Finishing Symposium August 23 at the Georgia World Congress Center. The daylong event will be the day before the exhibition starts.

Management

Signs of lean at display and commercial fixtures firm ConceptWorks

Signs of lean are everywhere at ConceptWorks, which designs, engineers, and crafts prototypes or low production run industrial products, commercial displays and trade show exhibits. 
Kanban tags hang from small stacks of sheet goods. Whiteboards indicate the next jobs for the saw operator. A large sign of jobs currently in the shop resembles an airport flight status board.
Adam Schneider had a background in lean manufacturing from his experiences in metal manufacturing and in his and Jason Gudex’s education at MSOE.

Management

How to find your Next-Gen employee

Educators are now saying that for many students and their parents, high school age is too late to introduce them to technical careers, writes Nancy Fister, AWFS education director. If you want today’s kids to consider jobs in the skilled trades, they need to be exposed in middle school.