The New AWI Standards and ANSI – What It Means for Millwork

The Architectural Woodwork Institute (AWI) will do a presentation at IWF 2022 on the emerging AWI/ANSI Standards. Register here. The AWI Standards book has long been like a bible for millwork and casegoods built to exacting commercial standards of construction and performance. For the latest revision of the handbook AWI adopted the formal accreditation process […]

The Wood Pastor Shares His Plans and His Business. Meet Him at IWF—Podcast

Stephen Michutka, owner of Lumberton, Texas-based The Wood Pastor, is a craftsman who learned woodworking by doing, following plans, and picking up technique along the way. “I began building several years ago because well…I’m cheap. My son needed a bed and I was determined to figure out how to design and build it myself,” Mitchutka […]

Weinig Holz-Her Sponsors the Beer Garden at IWF 2022

Atlanta, GA—The Beer Garden at IWF 2022 is your spot to relax, refresh, and connect with other attendees and exhibitors. Sponsored exclusively by Weinig Holz-Her, the Beer Garden offers a selection of food and beverages on tap in a new easy-to-access International Boulevard Entrance location. It’s open daily Tuesday, August 23—Friday, August 26. Among innovations […]

Garnica Brings Latest Plywood Innovations to IWF 2022

Garnica is introducing the newest innovations in its family of plywood. Founded over 81 years ago in Spain, the global leader in sustainable plywood is committed to the planet, health and safety, and durability in its plywood products. Garnica (IWF Booth C1546) says it challenges the ordinary by reimagining plywood as a 100 percent sustainable […]

Finalists Named in IWF 2022 Design Emphasis Student Furniture Design Competition

Atlanta, GA—IWF 2022 Design Emphasis adjudication yielded 48 Finalist Projects from a field of 75 entries. The Design Emphasis Student Furniture Design Competition is widely acclaimed as a foremost furniture competition for U.S. college students. Sponsored by IWF and its owners WMIA and WMMA, the Design Emphasis competition affords students a platform to demonstrate design […]

See Latest in Multimaster as Fein Makes Its IWF Debut

In 1867, Wilhelm Emil Fein founded a company to manufacture physical and electrical equipment where his son Emil Fein invented the first electric hand drill almost 30 years later in 1895. This invention paved the way for highly reliable power tools, which FEIN still manufactures at its site in Germany. Fein’s roots are in metal […]

‘Scalability’—New Marker for a Well-run Woodwork Business?

Best practices in business management evolve over time, as experts adapt to changes in technology, materials, and—when it comes to workforce—society at large. From Henry Ford’s manual assembly line to Tesla’s robotic workflow, materials and end products change. While managers in many industries can lay claim to “exceptional conditions” due to markets and end products, […]

Launching at IWF 2022: A New Production Training Program – Attendee Fast Facts No. 10

Atlanta, GA—Suppliers have worked with hundreds of woodworking businesses and helped them solve problems and implement new techniques. Exhibitor EDU sessions at IWF 2022 tap that wealth of knowledge. Exhibitor EDU provides woodworking industry professionals with practical production training in a focused setting just a few steps from the show floor. One example is a […]

FirstFacts for Exhibitors: Hitch Your Marketing Star to IWF Woodworking Influencers

Atlanta, GA—IWF Woodworking Influencers Lounge (Booth A10620) sponsored by Shaper Tools, will see more than two dozen of the most popular online personalities drawing hundreds of shop owners and many industry managers and operations professionals who follow them on YouTube, Instagram, and Facebook. All exhibitors will benefit from the traffic “halo effect” of these online woodworking stars […]

Video: Izzy Swan’s Latest Jig. Meet Him at IWF Woodworking Influencers Lounge

Atlanta, GA—Izzy Swan will appear at the IWF 2022 Woodworking Influencers Lounge. One of America’s most-followed woodshop operators—with nearly one million subscribers to his instructional YouTube channel—Swan is a magnetic personality, emanating a passion for the woodshop business and authoritative mastery of the craft. In his latest video, Swan shows how to build a jig […]