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Industry leaders donate to Reed Custer's wood program

Industry leading woodworking companies have donated to Reed-Custer High School in Braidwood, Illinois which offers industrial technology classes with a program that covers a wide range of woodworking materials and equipment, including the latest for programming and CNC operations.

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Thermwood To Combine 3D Additive Printing and CNC Machining

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.