New age brackets are growing as a percentage of the wood industry workforce: those in their sixties and even seventies, and those in their twenties.

As workers age and to avoid injury, factory managers - including those at woodworking plants - are adding exoskeletons to their production tool box.

Glenn Ripley, CEO of Mission Bell Manufacturing, opens the doors to the world during the Executive Briefing Conference, April 14-16 in San Jose, California.

CEOs from millwork firm Mission Bell Manufacturing, United Cabinet's Tru Cabinetry unit, and ACProducts' Master Woodcraft Cabinetry will examine rationales behind capital investment in wood products production operations at the 2019 Executive Briefing Conference.