Filling a roundish hole in a plank is a not-uncommon requirement: covering screw holes, knot holes, or reclaimed wood accompanied by cuts for plumbing and heating, can present boards that need something beyond wood filler - they need a plug. Here are four tools we've run across, and a bit about a project involving hole plugging.

BENZ Inc. has named Paul Roza as its new National Sales Manager of Wood, Plastics and Composites.

The Turbine System utilizes the spinning force of the tooling to amplify air movement up and away from the cutting surface. Ideal for both standard router applications and nested-based processing, the Turbine System will greatly enhance tool life and product quality, resulting in greater productivity. The Turbine System will also improve workplace cleanliness, improving both safety and employee satisfaction.

Leitz Tooling is developing the first generation of “smart tools.” By integrating a data chip in the tool body, operators and production managers gain the ability to review information on critical production values; tool dimensions, cutting geometry, RPM, feed rate, performance times, servicing cycles and much more.

Leitz Tooling says its new “Premium” line of horizontal panel saw blades includes laser ornaments in the blade body filled with a special polymer for the maximum in vibration damping and accuracy.

KYOTO, JAPAN - Aiming to double its woodworking tool sales, the Kyocera Group industrial cutting tools subsidiary, Kyocera Unimerco A/S has acquired all shares of Garsdalo Medienos Technologija (GMT), a Vilnius, Lithuania manufacturer and distributor of woodworking tools.Kyocera Unimerco says it aims to strengthen its woodworking tool business currently centered in Northern Europe, and double its sales in this business segment by the year 2020.

Toolmaker Solutions by Ceratizit has been launched in partnership with its U.S. trading partner, Southeast Tool, Conover, GA, aimed at providing faster and better response for customer needs in the U.S. and Canada.

Leitz woodworking tools is showing prototypes of networked tooling at LIGNA 2015, with chips embedded to communicate to CNCs and other machinery and operations controllers. It is also presenting a research project called eApps4Production.

Leitz woodworking tools is incorporating networked production at LIGNA 2015 showing prototypes of networked tools and is presenting a research project called eApps4Production.