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Ways to help in hurricane relief efforts

Hurricane Helene devastated communities across multiple states including Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia and West Virginia. And even as the communities and the businesses within struggle to recover another Stage 5 hurricane, Milton, is bearing down on these same communities threatening more death and destruction. How can you help? Here are some ways.

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Ethan Allen begins recovery efforts

DANBURY, Conn. — An Ethan Allen distribution center located in Old Fort, North Carolina, was recently impacted by the significant flooding caused by Hurricane Helene. The distribution center, which primarily focuses on shipping custom-made home furnishings to select wholesale customers, has not yet resumed daily shipping operations due to limited road accessibility for tractor-trailers.

Wood Machinery & Supplies

ERP software with Dashboard Creation tool

Crows Nest ERP software now comes with a Dashboard Creation tool that enables unlimited dashboards to be created for each user, automatically updating each project in real-time. The tool supports multiple objects such as pivot tables, grids, charts, scatter charts, pie charts, gauges, cards, treemaps, choropleth maps, and geo point maps to form any view desired for the given purpose. Chart functionality includes trend, regression lines, constant line and strip presentations.

Wood Machinery & Supplies

Carbide-tipped band saw blades for hardwoods

The Woodpecker CT carbide-tipped band saw blades from The L.S. Starrett Co. feature aggressively angled carbide-tipped teeth that are precision-ground and triple-sharpened for superior cutting performance and high fatigue resistance for extended blade life, reduced cutting time and improved productivity, the company says. Blades are available in welded bands, in 1/2, 3/4, 1, 1-1/4 and 2 inch widths, in 0.032, 0.035 and 0.042 inch thicknesses, and in 1.3 and 3 teeth per inch.