Festool has expanded its Northeastern and Midwestern U.S. tour schedule for Festool Roadshow, which is powered by a 48’ truck making numerous stops throughout the United States and Canada.
The Felder Group has released a fun little project for CNC owners to build a foosball table.
Vaughan & Bushnell Manufacturing Co., a hand tool producer, announced it has acquired substantially all the assets of Dasco Pro Inc., a producer of chisels and punches.
Harvey Industries Co. Ltd., a woodworking machinery manufacturer based in China, is acquiring Bridge City Tool Works of Portland, Ore.
Next Wave Automation offers free instructions and VCarve files for making a mini baseball bat with the company’s CNC Shark.
Steven Shepard is the new director of product management for Ridgid, whose responsibilities include implementing a growth strategy for the company’s hand, tubing and pipe fabrication tools.
The National Wood Flooring Association’s Wood Flooring Expo, held April 11–13 in Tampa, Fla., had record attendance with over 3,000 visitors.
Harbor Freight has doubled this year’s Harbor Freight Tools for Schools Prize for Teaching Excellence to more than $1 million.
Doug Mockett & Co. has selected three first-place entries in its annual design competition, submitted by a repeat winner and two students at Appalachian State University.
New Pig introduces the Pig Lamp Recycling Program, a mail-back package with everything required to safely and properly collect, ship, and recycle spent bulb waste.
WGBH Boston began airing the Emmy-nominated public television series “Rough Cut with Fine Woodworking” in April with a new host, professional woodworker and teacher Tom McLaughlin.
Continuing its mission to increase demand for globally sourced wood products from sustainably managed forests, the International Wood Products Association held its 62nd World of Wood Convention, March 14-16, in New Orleans.
To commemorate its 20th anniversary, the Cabinet Makers Association held its first national conference Mar. 1-2 in Denver.
Stiles Machinery hosted nearly 200 manufacturing professionals at its Manufacturing Solutions Seminar, held May 1-3 at the distributor’s showroom and finishing lab in High Point, N.C.
Rev-A-Shelf LLC announces the acquisition of CompoKeeper , a supplier of kitchen compost bins, from parent company 1908 Brands of Boulder, Colo.
Metro Hardwoods Inc., based in Glendale Heights, Ill., is now a master distributor of the complete line of Milesi wood coatings.
The 24th annual Philadelphia Furniture Show returned to the 23rd St. Armory for a weekend show, Apr. 14-15, that featured custom pieces by about 50 woodworkers from across the country.
Doug Mockett & Co. announces three winning entries in its annual Design Competition. The first entry coming from repeat winner, Steve Goldberg, who has engineered a floor track wire management system that allows cables to enter and exit at various entry points along the raceway.
Lazy Lee USA Spinning Closets has won the 2018 WMIA Wooden Globe Innovator Award using Lockdowel fastening to speed and simplify flat-packed assembly.
Sherwin-Williams, through its Industrial Wood Coatings division, introduces the Virtual Panel Studio, an first-of-its-kind online inspiration tool that provides furniture, kitchen cabinet and other wood product designers access to a complete library of high-resolution images of finished wood panels.
Stiles Machinery is revealing a new logo and brand identity, representing the distributor’s industry-leading solutions and support services throughout North America, backed by Homag’s global reputation for world-class technology and innovation, according to the company.
Vollmer of America announced it will be moving to a new building that is almost three times the size of its current location in Carnegie, Pa.
The robust pace of spending on home renovations and repairs is expected to stay strong over the coming quarters, according to the Leading Indicator of Remodeling Activity from the Remodeling Futures Program at the Joint Center for Housing Studies of Harvard University.
The Society of American Period Furniture Makers recently announced James R. (Ray) Journigan, Sr., owner of The Colonial Craftsman in Virginia Beach, Va., as its 2018 Cartouche Award recipient.