Wood Machinery & Supplies

Tool presetting equipment

Microset tool presetting equipment optimizes machining processes and can reduce setup time by up to 70 percent, Haimer USA says. It improves tool life and boosts overall process reliability in your production, the company adds.

Wood Machinery & Supplies

All-in-one machining center

The Koch Centronic is designed to be the ultimate all-in-one machining center. It can handle 6-sided horizontal and vertical drilling operations. It can be equipped with shaping, doweling and grooving units. It’s designed to be highly flexible and perfect for batch size one production. With the NC controlled gripper, workpieces are processed continuously. It is effective for small, narrow to large parts.

Woodworking Industry News

Housing sales are up as are softwood lumber prices

VANCOUVER, BC -- After slowing down in the summer, sales of new US single-family homes rocketed up by +14%, while the median price of newly built houses increased by even more, compared to the previous month, according to Madison's Lumber Reporter There were 800,000 new U.S. homes sold in September, which is up +14% from a significantly downwardly-corrected 702,000 in August, and is down -18% from 971,000 in September 2020.

Podcasts

Wealth from Waste - with Jeff Wagner

Will Sampson talks about how wealth can be found in what some view as waste, and his guest is Jeff Wagner, executive chairman of CalPlant, a company that is transforming rice straw, a waste product of rice farming, into high-quality medium density fiberboard panel products for the woodworking industry.