CNC manufacturer C.R. Onsrud says that with interest in American-made products growing, it accomplished major sales and marketing goals during this year’s 2015 AWFS Fair woodworking show in Las Vegas.
CNC manufacturer Thermwood Corp. says it is developing a 3D additive manufacturing system, that is capable of making large carbon graphite reinforced composite thermoplastic components. It uses a “near net shape” approach with a large extruder, mounted to the machine, heats, melts and “prints” carbon graphite filled thermoplastic material to create a structure which is then five-axis machined to its final net shape.
The new innovative LUMINA series offers a unique combination for processing panels: Two systems for perfectly invisible joints. The GluJet application system for standard use of PUR glue and the LTRONIC, the new unit from HOLZ-HER, which provides a fully integrated solution for processing laser edging.
The innovative HOLZ-HER CAD/CAM software can control CNC machining centers with 3 to 5 axes and was developed from scratch to meet the demands for machining wood and synthetic materials.
At AWFS Fair 2015, HOLZ-HER will introduce five newly developed processing units for the upper range Accura and Lumina series edgebanders. This new range including the top/bottom trim unit, corner-rounding / shaping unit, profile scraping, finish scraping, and grooving units were developed with the target of 100% repetition accuracy.
Wood manufacturing technology firm Biesse says it strengthened its partnership with Eurosoft. For the past two years, Eurosoft and Biesse have worked together on systems integration in North America. This deal formalizes that relationship.
Vero Software says sales of its Alphacam solution for wood, stone and metal set records in the first half of 2015, with revenue up 23%. set records. Improvements to advanced 5-axis machining cycles, nesting functionality, and parent / child relationship support for multiple part management arethe focus of the company's developers.
A hand-held router that uses machine vision and GPS to guide its cutting path is getting closer to market. A product of MIT grad student research, the first version was presented in a Siggraph 2012 paper by Alec Rivers, Ilan E. Moyer and Fredo Durand. Now moving into the world of venture capital funding, the router has been redesigned, and renamed, Shaper.