Wilsonart HPL Earns Green Declare Label from Furniture Institute
Temple, TX—Wilsonart® High Pressure Laminate (HPL) now includes the International Living Future Institute Declare label, the first laminate to earn the distinction. “Wilsonart prides itself on offering stylish engineered surfaces that mimic nature without impacting the environment, and we are thrilled to offer the first laminate in the industry to feature the Declare label,” says […]
PantoRouter Joinery System to Show Bosch Capability at IWF 2022
The PantoRouter (IWF Booth A10554) allows woodworkers to make sophisticated and precise joinery for furniture and cabinets using a hand-held router. PantoRouter locks a conventional hand-held router horizontally into a 2:1 pantograph, which guides the router based on patterns from a wide range of templates to make mortise and tenon, dovetails, box joints and custom […]
Podcast—Being About Doing It with Nick Sawyer, Sawyer Design
In this episode, host Ethan Abramson sits down with Nick Sawyer, owner of Portland, OR-based Sawyer Design. Not all those who wander are lost. This could easily sum up the beginning of Sawyer’s working life. He had the drive, he just didn’t know what that drive was pushing him towards. Sawyer had been waiting tables […]
Somerset Hardwood Flooring Acquired by Swiss Firm Bauwerk
St. Margrethen, Switzerland—Switzerland-based Bauwerk Group AG has acquired Somerset Hardwood Flooring. Somerset Hardwood Flooring, with a reported $163 million in revenue, is a vertically integrated forest products company based in Somerset, KY. Globally, Bauwerk employs 1,600 and reports annual sales of $300 million. The group has production sites in Switzerland, Lithuania, and Croatia. The combined […]
VIDEO—Digitally Imaging Wood, Knots and All
Tokyo, Japan—Researchers at the University of Tokyo and other locations have developed a way to generate graphics that model the annual ring pattern of solid wood, along with natural elements like knots. Although wood texturing is a well-studied topic, there have been few previous attempts at modeling knots inside the wood texture, according to a […]