The first step in choosing a bandsaw blade is to define the cutting requirements. Some considerations are related to the quality of the cut — smoothness, accuracy or straightness, and curve radius — and some are related to the wood itself: density, depth of cut and grain orientation.

Considered the “future of productivity,” Industry 4.0 has already had a significant impact on woodworking processes, including the panel processing arena.Improving communication has been key to its development. “Industry 4.0 requires connectivity between the machine and the data exchange source, i.e., network,” noted Peter Tuenker, managing director at IMA-Schelling America.

Actor and woodworker Nick Offerman appeared on the Late Show with Stephen Colbert recently and presented the host with a handcrafted California myrtle and black Eastern walnut table. While he's still working on the finish he said in the video below, the much-needed gift offers talk show guests, including Offerman, a place for their obligatory mugs.

In this excerpt from FDMC Editor Will Sampson’s article “Financing your next machine,” Joan Peterson and Kevin Mellon of SCM Group North America share their tips for buying new technology.

In addition to their smaller footprint, vertical saws are also available with added capabilities. Here’s a few of them.

Considered the heart of the edgebander, if the glue pot is not functioning at 100 percent, then neither is your machine. Here are four tips for maintaining a good glue pot.

JOLIET, Ill. – Swedish ready-to-assemble furniture maker and retailer IKEA has begun construction on its new Midwest distribution center located in Joliet, Illinois - 48 miles southwest of Chicago. Set to open in the spring of 2018, the approximately 1.25-million-square-foot distribution center will be designed and built by Gray Construction, a nationally recognized engineering, architecture and construction firm. Gray has designed and built more than 250 distribution facilities across the U.S., including other IKEA distribution centers.

Norman D’Souza, the former chief financial officer and vice president of finance of a New Jersey-based furniture wholesaler and retailer and of sister-firm Echelon furniture manufacturing in Indiana, pled guilty to defrauding lenders to obtain $17 million in loans from a commercial bank based in New York City and $1 million in municipal loans from Gas City, Indiana.

As the ranks of self-employed and gig-economy workers rise, Staples (NASDAQ: SPLS) offers an alternative to working at home - short-term office space rentals with Workbar, an operator of co-working facilities. The first three open near Boston.

Armstrong Flooring, Inc. North America’s largest producer of resilient and wood flooring products completed its separation from Armstrong World Industries, Inc. (NYSE: AWI). Armstrong Flooring is now an independent, publicly traded company whose common stock will begin trading April 4 on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol “AFI.”