Dean Mattson, director of the Wood Manufacturing/Cabinet Making Program at North Salem High School, Salem, Ore., reacts to winning the WMIA Wooden Globe Educator of the Year Award.

Computer numerically controlled router producer KOMO Machine announces that it will be attending the 2013 Woodworking Industry Conference (WIC).

WMIA presented its 2013 Wooden Globe Awards at this year's Woodworking Industry Conference held in Tempe, AZ. The recipients were: Innovator of the Year, Kotter Woodworking, Inc., Borden, IN; Commitment to Excellence through Technology, Stanley Furniture, Robbinsville, NC; and Educator of the Year, North Salem High School, Salem, OR.

The Woodworking Machinery Industry Association named SCM Group North America its 2012 Partner of the Year.

John Park, SCM Group North America, was elected president of the Woodworking Machinery Industry Assn. during the WMIA 2013 annual meeting. Scott Mueller, Edward B. Mueller Co., was named VP.

John Park of SCM Group North America was elected president of the Woodworking Machinery Industry Association at the group's annual meeting during the 2013 Woodworking Industry Conference.

The Woodworking Machinery Industry Association named Scm Group North America its 2012 Partner of the Year.

Wood industry supplier Joan Kemp, head of CP Adhesives, was honored this morning at WIC 2013, for her years of service to the wood industry, in a presentation by John Henderson, on behalf of the Woodworking Machinery Industry Association.

John Park of Scm Group North America assumed the presidency of the Woodworking Machinery Industry Association (WMIA) vowing to take advantage of the improving economy to strengthen the association and grow the International Woodworking Fair (IWF)