Engineers at the University of Maryland have developed a new use for wood: filtering water.

The robot uses vision to sort and stack the the cut nested parts based on the labels that were applied earlier in the process.

Saw, drill, and profile custom wood door and window frames of virtually any size on one machine. The Biesse Uniline CNC work center does all of this with extreme precision and in a small footprint.

Engineers at the University of Maryland have used modified wood in a metal battery, seeking to prevent battery failure.

Donaldson Company, Inc. (NYSE:DCI) now offers a snap-in pleated bag filter for its Torit RF Baghouse dust collector.

Techniks Industries, parent of NAP Gladu, Riverside Tool, and RKO Saw, which supply woodworking tooling, will acquire the tooling division of Parlec, Inc., located in Fairport, NY.

Retrofitting machinery for manual, electronically monitored, or fully automatic size changeover – when does each solution make sense?

Comau was named a GM Innovation Award winner at the General Motors annual Supplier of the Year awards ceremony held in Orlando, Fla.

SMTCL held its 4th Annual Open House in City of Industry, CA, with Marposs, Index Designs, SurfCam, Fanuc, Siemens, and CimCool on hand.

Biesse Group has acquired control of Avant, a company specializing in the development of software for the integration and supervision of machining lines and working cells.