Legal: Trademark Protection — It’s a Tougher Ballgame Overseas
R. Scott Tobin takes you through the how-to’s and what-not’s of protecting your hard-earned brand as more U.S. companies enter business in overseas marketplaces. If your products are heading for the docks, put this article on your checklist before the ship sails.
How to Use Your Microwave Oven to Determine Moisture Content — The Right Way
Drying and Rough Mill editor Dr. Fred Lamb shows you how to sample for moisture content before you take the bigger plunge and risk wood wastage with wrong decisions. Sampling made simple!
Transportation: Hours of Service Proposal Threatens
If your company has its own trucking employees, you will want to catch up on this latest proposal, which may impact how your drivers operate in the future.
Finding Answers to Seat Frame Failures
Those elusive solutions to seating frame failures aren't so elusive anymore. A 10-year research study at Mississippi State University is coming to fruition. In this new series by Dr. Jilei Zhang, you'll learn how to re-engineer frames for optimum design and structural strength. Stay tuned!
Factory Floor
How do you meet those demanding consumers who want it now — and still keep some level of profit margins with short runs? See how Hooker Furniture is doing it with a custom system that helps shorten turnaround time and reduce work-in-progress.
Accent on Design: Tapping the Kids Market
Furniture that “grows” from child to adult is the new wave in children’s furniture. Here is how designers are approaching the booming youth furniture market with sleep, study, storage and safety the key ingredients.
Custom Shop Hits the Right Chord by Thinking Outside the Box!
Fender Custom Guitars has found an unconventional solution to a conventional problem. Looking to the metal machinery industry to solve a wood production problem is striking just the right kind of music a profit-generating company likes to hear.
Powder Coatings for Wood
The new generations are coming. Are they for you? These powders take on complex curves and edges with UV curing helping to boost IR and convection methods. Check it out here, then sign up for the IWF2000 seminar on powder coatings coming to Atlanta, August 24.
How to Choose the Right Edgebander
Until just a few years ago the only edgebanders were made in Europe. Now with American companies also introducing edgebander innovations, the options are widening. So how do you choose the edgebander that will carry you through your “growing” years? Consider these ideas then meet with edgebander manufacturers at IWF2000 in August for more.
Millwork
Hollywood Woodworks pre-plans for potential economic downturns by plunging into new waters while the economy still rides the crest of the waves. Going after the boating business is how this Florida architectural millwork company stays above the swells.
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