The best-of-the-best new products entered into the 2026 Challengers Award competition have been cut to twenty products.

Owner of California custom van shop talks about how adding a CNC router put the gas pedal down on his business.

Investment will help expand and modernize local sawmill to increase production of Ontario-made wood products and create five new jobs at Bernie McGlynn Lumber Ltd. in Mildmay, Ontario.

COBHAM, United Kingdom — Hexagon’s Production Software Division has acquired Planit Canada, the world’s second-largest reseller of Cabinet Vision, strengthening its direct presence in the Canadian woodworking software market.Details of the transaction were not immediately available.

Technology, supplies, and services to grow business on display from Aug. 25-28.

Are too many woodworkers wasting energy solving problems that have already been solved?

Laguna Tools is opening its doors on July 16, 2026, for a hands-on Open House at its Huntington Beach, California, facility where shop owners and makers can meet directly with product specialists, see equipment running live, and get specific answers to their shop’s production questions.

Eighty-four new products available from 65 IWF 2026 exhibiting companies comprise the field of contestants in the IWF 2026 Challengers Distinguished Achievement Award competition. Of the 84 contestants, 20 finalists will be announced on June 16.

The Plansee US Holding Corp. and Manhattan Five Partners LLC have entered into a definitive collaboration framework agreement outlining the formation of a joint venture to establish a strategic tungsten oxide stockpile in the United States.

British Columbia's secondary wood manufacturing firms showed low efficiency for most of the business types, and performance consistently lagged sawmill and panel sectors, with a “significant downward divergence” observed since the financial crisis, according to a study by Lili Sun, Rico Chan and Bryan Bogdanski of Natural Resources Canada’s Pacific Forestry Centre.