FDMC June 2025

Integrating new sawing technology has made this Wisconsin company more efficient while reducing workers’ aches and pains caused by the old technology.

Laminate Technologies, known to many as LamTech, is marking its 40th anniversary in 2025, and doing so with major news. It is transitioning to an employee-owned company through an Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP).

Lithuania’s newest import to the U.S. is a massive and highly automated US factory set to open later this year.

Each month in FDMC Magazine we feature the 'Notable Nine Online', nine stories that were the most viewed and engaged with from WoodworkingNetwork.com over the past month. The following stories were chosen by our readers by what they were most interested in from April 14 to May 13.

Expansions and acquisitions keep this FDMC 300 segment strong.

Whether you revere disruptors and disruptions probably depends on who is doing the disrupting.

It’s one thing to set profitable prices, but ensuring you are paid that price is another.

Brian Beaulieu offers economic predictions to WIC audience including tariffs, housing, employment, and business opportunities.

John LeTourneau wants to replicate a successful education model across the country.

Laminate Technologies, known to many as LamTech, is marking its 40th anniversary in 2025, and doing so with major news. It is transitioning to an employee-owned company through an Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP).

If you want to stop leaking cash, you need to prevent one thing from happening.

Matt Buell talks about three indispensable tools he uses regularly in his shop.

MicroJig MatchFit grid router guide attaches to handheld routers.

Redwood (Sequoia sempervirens) is a wonderful evergreen species, with mature trees commonly reaching 300 feet high and 12 feet in diameter. (Giant sequoia is even larger and is a different species.) 

Wood Doctor also answers questions about powder post beetles, surface checks in white oak, and what is pith.

Every year the AWFS organizes a D.C. fly-in event, where leaders of businesses that supply tech and materials for furniture producers meet with lawmakers’ staffs to discuss issues and legislation affecting our industry.  This was my second year as part of the fly-in team, tasked with bringing lawmakers up to speed our industry’s positive impacts on sustainability, climate change, forest management and local economies and culture.