Showplace Wood Products' significant growth in frameless cabinetry production has lead to a $10 million expansion including construction of a 60,000-square-foot plant.
Wood-Skin, a new panel technology integrating wood, textile and geometrically cut patterns and digital hinges, adds another dimension to furniture and architectural design.
There seems to be a huge amount of voodoo involved in setting up segmented platen sanding machines. Techs and the folks running them just don’t understand the concepts, so they just play with the settings until something looks okay.
Merillat Cabinetry Revit and AutoCAD files are now available on the Autodesk Seek website. The company says it is the first national manufacturer to offer its files this way for architects and builders.
Industry 4.0 will be the buzz at LIGNA 2015, drawn from European wood manufacturing and other industries. It is based on high-tech strategy of the German government to promote computerization on a much larger scale than is currently used.
Vertical panel saws from Streibig and Putsch, and Castle's award winning pocket joint machine will be running live at Cabinets & Closets Expo, April 15-16 in Schaumburg, IL. Visitors can also learn about sliding table saws from SCM, Stiles and Felder at the Chicago event.
Interprint, whose decor papers and films are widely used in laminate panel and moulding production, has inaugurated a high-speed, wide format inkjet system, the KBA RotaJET VL, for digitally printed decorative panels.
Most viewed lately: Preparing solid wood joints for edge and face gluing. Also popular: Short of walnut for a countertop, Scott Wunder shows how to stretch supply to make thick boards from thin ones. Plus hanging furniture, and Grabski's CNC.
Gavin Munro's Full Grown project is training trees to grow into the shapes of chairs, lamps, tables and other furniture. His topiary tree farm project would gradually scale up if the products attract customers.