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Resolute Forest CEO makes free trade case to Canadian House of Commons

Resolute Forest Products CEO Richard Garneau made the case for free trade in the wood products industry with the U.S., noting that managed trade increases volatility, and that Western Canada's lumber producers have advantages in trade with China and large U.S. manufacturing centers.

By Bill Esler, April 25, 2016 | 5:50 pm CDT

IWF Products

Purpose-built CNC automates production of sound absorbing panels

Vitap's Point Acoustic compact CNC drilling machine was designed specifically for applications in the manufacturing of acoustic and sound absorbing panels, for which there seems to be growing demand. It is a semin-finalist in the IWF 2016 Challengers Awards

By Bill Esler, April 25, 2016 | 5:23 pm CDT

Ask a Woodworker

Milwaukee Heated Gear… so hot right now

I wear two hats: woodshop worker and public face. If I could find a way to schedule different days for all my meetings and all the days I am banging, cutting, and sanding it would be easy. More often than not I have to split my days and showing up to a luxury high-rise caked in sawdust is not an option. Enter Milwaukee's stylish gear.

By Ethan Abramson, April 25, 2016 | 1:23 pm CDT

Panel Talk Blogs

5 Questions for Jeff Johnson - Timber Products' Vision of Particle Board

Jeff Johnson is Timber Products’ new Vice President of Composites and Strategic Planning. We’re excited to welcome him to the team as we integrate the particle board division of SierraPine (operating as Ampine, a division of Timber Products Company) into our particle board offerings. We recently caught up with Jeff to talk about trends, applications and what’s in store for 2016.

April 25, 2016 | 12:40 pm CDT

Architectural Products

Hollywood Millwork awarded American Express regional headquarters interior

Hollywood Woodwork was awarded the American Express Regional Headquarters in Sunrise, Florida, in conjunction with CCI Group of Longview,Texas.

By Bill Esler, April 25, 2016 | 12:33 pm CDT

Woodworking Industry News

Cefla to show vertical robotic finishing system at Xylexpo

The iGiotto system by Falcioni, used for spraying large, multi-dimensional, vertical surfaces, will be shown by Cefla at the Xylexpo trade exhibition May 24-28, in Milan, Italy.

By Karl D. Forth, April 25, 2016 | 10:09 am CDT

Wood Explorer

Sweetgum

Cherry, mahogany, or walnut in disguise?

By Gene Wengert, April 24, 2016 | 7:00 pm CDT

Pricing & Supply

Chernobyl's radioactive pine lumber may be in Europe's supply chain

Pine tree logs from areas surrounding the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster are entering the lumber supply chain in Europe, say local watchdog organizations, who claim government agencies managing the 18-mile Chernobyl Exclusion Zone around the reactor disregard evidence of clear cutting contaminated pine woods.

By Bill Esler, April 24, 2016 | 11:02 am CDT

Project Gallery

Mattiazzi ash wood chair attains a functional first: it stacks 10 high

Sam Hecht, a designer at Industrial Facility, has created a new chair for Italian furniture manufacturer Mattiazzi. The Tronco chair, a stackable item aimed at churches. Hecht, who previously designed the Brancca chair, offers this description of the ash wood chair, launched at this month furniture show in Milan. Tronco appears to be a very basic chair, its seat formed from planks of wood joined together and mounted on round dowels.

By Sam Hecht, Designer, April 23, 2016 | 10:18 pm CDT

Show Us Your Shop

Bacci operators disprove myth that mechanized manufacturing is not a craft

The highly specialized craftsmen at Mattiazzi, in Udine, Italy, operate the most sophisticated machinery available to the wood industry. A ten-axis CNC milling machine allows wood to take the complex shapes associated with injection-molded plastic. Operating such a machine is an art and Mattiazzi disproves the modern myth that mechanized manufacturing is not a craft.

By Jonathan Olivares, April 23, 2016 | 9:55 pm CDT