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There has been palpable excitement along with tremendous activity this summer as crews of engineers, electrical technicians, installation laborers and technicians from Japan have collaborated on installing Columbia Forest Products newest Meinan lathe line – this time at Columbia’s plant in Hearst, Ontario. Columbia’s interest in finding the hardwood plywood core peeling system that delivers the […]

The U.S. International Trade Commission (USITC) recently voted to investigate whether the new Bosch REAXX jobsite table saw infringes on safety patents owned by SawStop LLC. “The products at issue in the investigation are table saws that quickly stop and/or retract the cutting blade to prevent serious injury when detecting that the operator has made […]

The term “match”, and its derivatives, “matched” or “matching,” is frequently used in discussing decorative wood veneered panel products. It is a seemingly simple term, but it can be quite confusing at times because it has multiple applications, including describing the relationship between: one component and the adjacent component in a panel face, all the […]

Metro Hardwoods offers a lot more than its name implies. Well rooted in the distribution of hardwood lumber since its flagship location opened in Maple Grove, MN, 25 years ago, Metro Hardwoods has grown in leaps and bounds through a combination of organic growth and strategic acquisitions. Today the company owns and operates four distribution […]