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Wood Tech Summit Keynoter Shares Lessons Learned from Fire

Denis Staples, co-owner and president of Deslaurier Custom Cabinets of Renfrew, ON, kicked off the Day 2 of Wood Tech Summit with a keynote presentation on how his company rebounded after a 2009 New Year's Day fire wiped out its 95,000-square-foot plant, including all of its manufactguring equipment and 150 full kitchens that were ready to be shipped to customers after the holiday break.

A Cabinetmaker and His Robot

1 Man + 1 Robot @ 24/7 = 1,200 Cabinets. That's the potential weekly output at Ro-Bois-Tic, a most intriguing start-up I visited last week in St.-Apollinaire, QC.