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WCMA technology partners: connecting manufacturers of woodworking machinery and supplies to WCMA member companies.

The Wood Component Manufacturers Association has a "Technology Partnership" program to connect manufacturers of woodworking machinery, equipment, tooling, supplies, software and business solutions to WCMA WCMA Williams College Museum of Art (Williamstown, MA)
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 member companies who utilize these products and services. Our Technology Partners have the opportunity to showcase and educate WCMA members on their newest technology, products and services.

The highlight of the Technology Partner program is our Wood Technology Expo, which is held annually in conjunction with the WCMA Fall Conference & Plant Tour Event.

If you would like to find out more about becoming a WCMA Technology Partner, please contact the WCMA office at 770-565-6660 or e-mail us at wcma@woodcomponents.org. A description of all current Technology Partners is included on the WCMA's Web site at www.woodcomponents.org--just click on Technology Partners.

AWMV Industrial Products

Tel: 317-808-0835

www.awmv.com

Products: AWMV Industrial Products is the commercial division of Wood-Mizer. The product line includes moulding machines, profile grinders, resaws, edgers and thin-kerf sawmills.

Active Machine & Tool Co. Inc.

Tel: 616-662-9730

www.activemachine.com

Products: Active Machine & Tool Co. Inc. manufactures, distributes and services solid carbide, carbide-tipped, diamond and H.S.S. tooling.

AetnaGroup USA

Tel: 770-622-6629

www.aetnagroupusa.com

Products: AetnaGroup USA manufactures semiautomatic and fully automatic packing machines: portable stretch wrappers, turntable A playback machine for vinyl phonograph records, which were a major music distribution medium throughout the 20th century. The turntable contains a rotating platter to hold and spin the disc and an arm that holds a cartridge and needle (stylus). , horizontal ring, rotary arm and high speed spiral wrappers and shrink wrapping machines.

American Wood Dryers Inc.

Tel: 503-655-1955

www.drykilns.com

Products: AWD AWD Alive with–disseminated and/or metastatic disease  kilns are known for their quality, efficiency, and maintenance-free operation. The company offers both package and track kilns for hardwood and softwood applications, and methods to improve efficiency.

Arminius Tooling Inc.

Tel: 320-294-5900

www.arminiustooling.com

Products: Arminius Tooling customers achieve excellent surface qualities on natural woods, veneer and MDF (1) (Main Distribution Frame) A wiring rack that connects outside lines with internal lines. It is used to connect public or private lines coming into the building to internal networks.  panels. They are innovators in profile sanding.

Baker Products

Tel: 573-663-7711

www.baker-online.com

Products: Baker offers single- and double-sided surface planers, 4-sided planer/moulders, 6-spindle 4-sided moulders, thin-kerf band resaws, band sawmills, cut-to-length equipment, conveyors and more.

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Barr-Mullin Inc.

Tel: 919-833-3334

www.barrmullin.com

Products: Barr-Mullin Inc. produces computerized woodworking machinery, specializing in grading, automatic lumber scanning systems and optimizing cut-off cut-off Anesthesiology The point at which elongation of the carbon chain of the 1-alkanol family of anesthetics results in a precipitous drop in the anesthetic potential of these agents–eg, at > 12 carbons in length, there is little anesthetic activity,  saws/gang-rip saws.

Carolina Specialty Tools Inc.

Tel: 828-397-2467

www.carolinatools.com

Products: Carolina Specialty Tools specializes in the design and manufacture of high-tech cutting tools for the woodworking industry. Carbide-tipped, insert tooling and diamond tooling for industrial CNC (Computerized Numerical Control) See numerical control.

CNC - Collaborative Networked Communication
 machinery.

Carter Products Co. Inc.

Tel: 616-647-3380

www.carterproducts.com

Products: Carter Products is a manufacturer of 2-D computer laser production systems, line lasers, inspection lights, widebelt sander setup/diagnostic devices, bandsaw Noun 1. bandsaw - an endless saw consisting of a toothed metal band that is driven around two wheels
band saw

power saw, sawing machine, saw - a power tool for cutting wood
 guides and other machine accessories.

Colonial Saw Co.

Tel: 781-585-4364

www.csaw.com

Products: Colonial Saw provides panel saws, grind machinery for sharpening saws, routers, knives, and PCB PCB: see polychlorinated biphenyl.
PCB
 in full polychlorinated biphenyl

Any of a class of highly stable organic compounds prepared by the reaction of chlorine with biphenyl, a two-ring compound.
 tools. The company offers complete solutions including machinery, supplies, installation, training and support.

Computer Associates Inc.

Tel: 800-422-4782

www.caisoft.com

Products: Computer Associates' industry-specific Ponderosa software automates and optimizes sales, production, inventory control, scheduling, POS/e-commerce and business intelligence.

Costa & Grissom Machinery Co.

Tel: 336-434-6644

www.costagrissom.com

Products: Costa & Grissom is a supplier of widebelt, brush, orbital and wet polishing sanding machines to the wood, metal and solid surface industries of North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. .

Dantherm Filtration

Tel: 336-821-0800, 800-533-5286

www.danthermfiltration.com

Products: Dantherm Filtration provides air filtration and dust collection solutions. Dantherm specializes in turnkey systems, including design, fabrication fabrication (fab´rikā´shn),
n the construction or making of a restoration.
 and installation of systems from 750 CFM to 200,000 CFM.

Delmac Machinery Group

Tel: 336-854-1211

www.delmac.com

Products: DMG (Disk iMaGe) The file format used in the Macintosh for distributing Mac software. Mac install packages appear as a virtual disk drive on the Mac as if you had inserted a CD or floppy disk.  provides CNC machining centers, CNC routers, edgebanders, case clamps, tenoners, combination machines, material handling, panel saws, straight/contour edgebanders and bore/dowel machines.

Alexander Dodds Co.

Tel: 616-784-6000

www.dodds.com

Products: Alexander Dodds Co. produces drawer machinery, dovetailers, dovetail dovetail
(dov´tāl),
n a widened or fanned-out portion of a prepared cavity, usually established deliberately to increase the retention and resistance form.
 gluers, drawer clamps, mortise and bore machinery for mortising and boring pockets for Mod-eez clips.

See our ad page 32

Eagle Machinery & Supply Inc.

Tel: 330-897-3013

www.eaglemachines.com

Products: Eagle Machinery & Supply specializes in total mill solutions and optimized system integration of dimension mill machinery, custom material handling, the Ripmaster optimizing fenceless ripsaw feeder, the Talon optimizing cutoff saw, hydraulic and mechanical components.

See our ad page 27

Fletcher Machine Co. Inc.

Tel: 336-249-6101

www.fletcher-machine.com

Products: Fletcher Machine manufactures edgebanders, heat transfer foil machines, electronic rimmer machines, softformers, tenoners, shapers, sanders, flatline laminators and the E-Z E-Z Engdahl-Zigangirov (bound)  Door raised panel door machine.

Friulmac Inc.

Tel: 828-327-6265

www.friulmacusa.com

Products: Friulmac offers single- and double-end tenoners, random length end matchers with endless workstation combinations. It also offers on-site technical support and spare parts Spare parts, also referred to as Service Parts is a term used to indicate extra parts available and in proximity to the mechanical item, such as a automobile, boat, engine, for which they might be used.

Spare parts are also called “spares.
 packages.

Franklin Adhesives

Tel: 800-877-4583

www.franklininternational.com

Products: For more than 70 years, Franklin Adhesives has been an industry leader in bonding wood and wood products. The company markets Titebond[R], Multibond[R], Advantage[R], and Woodbonds[R] products.

Froedge Machine & Supply Co.

Tel: 270-487-5891

www.froedge.com

Products: Industrial solutions focusing on labor-saving devices and yield improvements. It achieves this through the use of high technology and material handling concepts.

Great Lakes Great Lakes, group of five freshwater lakes, central North America, creating a natural border between the United States and Canada and forming the largest body of freshwater in the world, with a combined surface area of c.95,000 sq mi (246,050 sq km).  Custom Tool Mfg. Inc.

Tel: 800-873-4528

www.glct.com

Products: Great Lakes Custom Tool. manufactures Great-Loc[R] carbide insert systems, Great-Loc[R] SG Universal Tool System, brazed carbide; brazed diamond [PCD PCD

polycystic disease.
], solid carbide, Helicarb[R] and saw blades.

Hasko Inc.

Tel: 423-648-5200

www.haskomachines.com

Products: Hasko Inc. manufactures optimizing gang rip saws and systems, sidematching, planning centers, end matchers, lineal That which comes in a line, particularly a direct line, as from parent to child or grandparent to grandchild.


LINEAL. That which comes in a line. Lineal consanguinity is that which subsists between persons, one of whom is descended in a direct line from the other.
 feed tables, sorting, grading and nesting systems, crayon-mark and optimizing cutoff saws.

Holz-Her U.S. Inc.

Tel: 704-587-3400

www.holzher.com

Products: Holz-Her products include vertical panel saws, sliding table saws and horizontal beam saws for cutting, edgebanders, as well as a large range of widebelt sanders and CNC machining centers.

Jenkins Systems

Tel: 920-452-2110

www.jenkins-systems.com

Products: Jenkins Systems manufactures high-quality, simple-to-operate cabinet, millwork, furniture, RTA RTA

renal tubular acidosis.

RTA Renal tubular acidosis, see there
, sizing and specialty machinery, tenoners, CNC miter miter

bishop’s headdress signifying his authority. [Christian Symbolism: EB VI]

See : Authority
 machines, CNC shapers and tool changers
''For the species of shapechangers in the Culture novels, see Changers (The Culture)


The Changers are a fictional group of anti-hero published by Wildstorm an imprint of DC Comics.
.

Komo Machine Inc.

Tel: 320-252-0580, 800-643-5089

www.komo.com

Products: Komo Machine designs and builds high-speed precision CNC rooters integrated with CIM-Tech's premiere Router-CIM Automation Suite machine programming software for a complete CNC solution.

Leadermac USA

Tel: 866-522-6835

www.leadermacusa.com

Products: Leadermac manufactures high quality moulders, including small 1-head to 10-head moulders, with up to 1,200 fpm.

Leitz Tooling Systems

Tel: 800-253-6070

www.leitz.org

Products: With 14 domestic sales/service centers, Leitz is a leading supplier of complete tooling solutions, technical support and tooling service to the woodworking industry

LuxScan Technologies

Tel: 704-528-7313

www.luxscan.com

Products: LuxScan designs and sells vision systems for automatic quality control and products for real-time scanning real-time scanning

see real-time ultrasonography.
 and quality inspection in crosscutting cross·cut·ting  
n.
A technique used especially in filmmaking in which shots of two or more separate, usually concurrent scenes are interwoven. Also called intercutting.
, moulding, sorting and rip saw applications.

Mereen-Johnson Machine Co.

Tel: 612-529-7791

www.mereen-johnson.com

Products: Mereen-Johnson manufactures fixed arbor and movable blade ripsaws, single-and double-end tenoners, panel sizing equipment, dovetailers and complete rough mill material handling systems.

See our ad page 31

Mikron mi·kron
n.
Variant of micron.
 Woodworking

Tel: 800-496-4589

www.mikronmachinery.com

Products: Mikron designed the M645 Multi-Moulder and the M652R Multi-Moulder with Router System with the operators in mind with quick changeovers between applications.

Mirka Abrasives Inc.

Tel: 800-843-3904

www.mirka-usa.com

Products: Mirka Abrasives is an internationally recognized leader in the development and manufacturing of coated, non-woven and specialty abrasive products for surface finishing Surface finishing is used to describe a number of industrial processes that can be applied to improve the surface of a manufactured item. The major reason to apply these processes is to improve appearance, improve adhesion or ink wettability, corrosion protection, wear resistance and .

NAP GLADU

Tel: 812-462-2000

Products: NAP GLADU provides carbide-tipped saw blades, insert tooling, diamond tooling, carbide-tipped cutters, moulder moul·der  
v. Chiefly British
Variant of molder.


moulder or US molder
Verb

to crumble or cause to crumble, as through decay:
 heads, refuse hoggers, muter bits, inserts and accessories.

National Casein casein (kā`sēn), well-defined group of proteins found in milk, constituting about 80% of the proteins in cow's milk, but only 40% in human milk.  Co.

Tel: 773-846-7300

www.nationalcasein.com

Products: Founded in 1921, National Casein provides a wide variety of liquid and powder adhesives to the wood products industry All products are available from five plants and five warehouse facilities.

Newman Machine Co. Inc.

Tel: 336-273-8261

www.newmanwhitney.com

Products: Newman Machine Co. is a manufacturer and designer of double roughing planers, double and single surfacers, gang ripsaws, presses, trimmers and knife grinders.

Northtech Industrial Machinery

Tel: 502-719-0015

www.northtechmachinery.com

Products: Northtech supplies industrial double-surface planers, fixed and movable arbor gang ripsaws, vertical and horizontal band re-saws, fingerjoint systems, moulders, and widebelt and planer planer

Metal-cutting machine tool in which the workpiece is firmly attached to a horizontal table that moves back and forth under a single-point cutting tool. The tool-holding device is mounted on a crossrail so that the tool can be moved across the table in small sideward
 sanders.

C. R. Onsrud Inc.

Tel: 704-508-7000

www.cronsrud.com

Products: C. R. Onsrud Inc. offers a comprehensive line of high-precision machining products, including standard models of 3-, 4-, and 5-axis CNC routers, inverted inverted

reverse in position, direction or order.


inverted L block
a pattern of local filtration anesthesia commonly used in laparotomy in the ox.
 pin routers, tooling and accessories.

Paul Saws & Systems, division of Koch Machinery

Tel: 678-444-5000

www.paulsaws.com

Products: Paul Saws & Systems offer equipment for roughmill optimization. This equipment includes optimizing ripsaw infeeds, ripsaws with moving blades and optimizing crosscut saws.

See our ad page 33

Progressive Solutions Inc.

Tel: 604-214-8750

www.progressive-solutions.com

Products: Progressive Solutions offers sales, inventory and accounting software for wood component manufacturers and suppliers.

Ritter rit·ter  
n. pl. ritter
A knight.



[German, from Middle High German riter, from Middle Dutch ridder, from r
 Mfg. Inc.

Tel: 925-757-7296

www.rittermfg.com

Products: Ritter Mfg. produces woodworking machinery for the cabinetry, millwork and furniture industries, from manually operated machines to full 5-axis CNC machining centers.

SCM (1) (Software Configuration Management, Source Code Management) See configuration management.

(2) See supply chain management.
 Group USA

Tel: 770-813-8818

www.scmgroup-usa.com

Products: SCM Group is a leading manufacturer of a broad range of solid wood, wide belt sanding and panel processing machines, from entry level to the most advanced.

SII SII Servicio de Impuestos Internos (Chile)
SII Seiko Instruments, Inc.
SII Strong Interest Inventory
SII Standards Institution of Israel
SII Securities and Investment Institute (UK) 
 Dry Kilns

Tel: 336-357-7146

www.siidrykilns.com

Products: SII Dry Kilns manufactures: all aluminum and aluminum/stainless steel, prefab or masonry dry kilns, predryers, pallet heat treating systems, fan sheds and steamers.

Schmalz schmaltz also schmalz  
n.
1. Informal
a. Excessively sentimental art or music.

b. Maudlin sentimentality.

2. Liquid fat, especially chicken fat.
 Inc.

Tel: 919-713-0880

www.vacuworld.com/us

Products: Schmalz is a supplier of vacuum components, ergonomic vacuum handing systems and vacuum clamping systems.

Solid Wood Systems Inc.

Tel: 336-884-0700

www.solidwoodsystems.com

Products: SWS SWS Slow Wave Sleep
SWS Short Wavelength Spectrometer
SWS Sturge-Weber Syndrome (birthmark)
SWS Stadtwerke Speyer GmbH (Germany)
SWS Social Work Services (US Army) 
 offers a complete line of standard and CNC machines and systems from Balestrini, Comec and MZ for the chair, crib, furniture, casegoods, paper, plastics and solid wood component industries.

Stiles Stiles can refer to: People
  • Bert Stiles, short story writer
  • Charles Wardell Stiles, American zoologist
  • Edgar Stiles, character on the popular drama 24
  • Ezra Stiles, president of Yale College
  • Innis Stiles, singer, musician
 Machinery Inc.

Tel: 616-698-7500

www.stilesmachinery.com

Products: A division of Stiles Machinery, Solid Wood Technologies features a comprehensive range of products addressing the needs of the solid wood industry: moulders, ripsaws, grinders and optimizing systems. Stiles also specializes in a wide range of panel processing machinery

Super Thin Saws Inc.

Tel: 802-244-8101,800-541-7297

www.superthinsaws.com

Products: Super Thin Saws manufactures and services high-precision thin kerf kerf  
n.
1. A groove or notch made by a cutting tool, such as a saw or an ax.

2. The width of a groove made by a cutting tool.
 circular saw blades for use in rough mills, flooring and millwork plants, plus supplies accessory tooling.

Taylor Group

Tel: 845-452-3780

www.jamesltaylor.com

Products: Taylor produces edge-gluing and laminating machinery; Cameron Automation features optimization systems for the rough mill; and JLT JLT Journal of Lie Theory
JLT Jardine Lloyd Thompson Group PLC
JLT Junior Leader Training (Boy Scouts of America)
JLT Just Like That
JLT Junior League of Toronto
JLT Junior League of Tulsa
JLT Junior League of Tampa
 Clamps supplies edge-gluing and door clamping.

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TigerStop LLC (Logical Link Control) See "LANs" under data link protocol.

LLC - Logical Link Control
 

Tel: 360-254-0661

www.tigerstop.com

Products: TigerStop manufactures automatic stop/gauge and pusher pusher Drug slang 1. A person who sells drugs, especially the 'heavies'–eg, heroin 2. A metal hanger or umbrella rod used to scrape residue in crack stems  systems. TigerStop can be retrofit onto existing equipment and position material to save time and material, and reduce miscuts.

Vortex Tool Co. Inc.

Tel: 800-355-7708

www.vortextool.com

Products: Vortex manufactures and services cutting tools, including brazed carbide tipped, inserts, PCD-tipped tooling and solid-carbide router bits for CNC routers.

Weima America Inc.

Tel: 803-802-7170

www.weimaamerica.com

Products: Weima has provided customized size reduction solutions to the wood industry for more than 20 years. Hopper-fed and horizontal shredders are available to fit all applications.

Weinig Group

Tel: 704-799-0100

www.weinigusa.com

Products: The Weinig Group: Weinig, GreCon, Dimter, Waco and Raimann. A source for solid wood processing Wood processing is an engineering discipline comprising the production of forest products, such as pulp and paper, construction materials, and tall oil. Paper engineering is a subfield of wood processing. Many countries, notably Sweden also produce tar from pine trees.  machines. Weinig Group produces equipment to make businesses more profitable.

Western Pneumatics pneu·mat·ics  
n. (used with a sing. verb)
The study of the mechanical properties of air and other gases.


pneumatics
Noun
 Inc.

Tel: 541-461-2600

www.westernp.com

Products: Western Pneumatics is a leader in fingerjointing technology and custom manufactures fully automated systems, from high-production machines to a low-production reclaimer.

WoodEye North America Inc.

Tel: 770-995-6765

www.woodeyeinc.com

Products: WoodEye is a leader in the development of vision scanners for the woodworking industry exclusively since 1981. Its scanners work with any brand of crosscutting saws, planers or sorting lines.

See our ad page 33

STACKER

Designed to process packs of varying size, the Eagle Machinery & Supply Stacker produces uniform rows and consistent stacks of even-ended/ even-sided bunks. The Stacker's unique design accommodates a bunk height at a floor-level working position. 330-897-3013; www.eagle machines.com CIRCLE 254

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OPTIMIZER

Cameron Automation says its Quick Rip Optimizing machine can be joined with either a fixed arbor or movable arbor gang ripsaw. The Quick Rip Optimizer features Auto Skew (1) The misalignment of a document or punch card in the feed tray or hopper that prohibits it from being scanned or read properly.

(2) In facsimile, the difference in rectangularity between the received and transmitted page.
, is fenceless and is movable blade compatible, with a movable laser optional. 800-952-1320; www.cameronautomation.com CIRCLE 255

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RIPSAW

Mereen-Johnson's Model 312-DC/SR2 Select-A-Rip straight-line multiple ripsaw features two shifting saw blades in combination with the company's CamLock fixed blade positioning system for fast changeovers and improved production flexibility. 888-465-7297; www.mereen-johnson.com CIRCLE 256

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SCANNER

WoodEye says the new version of its scanner--reportedly the world's fastest scanner--will be able to scan wood at a speed of 2,700 fpm, making it possible for sawmills to produce more while maintaining consistent quality levels. The company says it plans to have soon a scanner that can handle up to 3,600 fpm. 404-520-0239; www.woodeyeinc.com CIRCLE 257

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PLANER/MOULDER

Baker Products says its Model M-412 planer/moulder can plane material up to 13 in, wide and 3/8 in. to 9 in. thick; 2-side plane/mould up to 12 in. wide and 3/8 in. to 9 in. thick; and 4-side plane/mould up to 10 in, wide and 9/16 in. to 4 in. thick. The M-412's variable speed range is from 11-52 fpm. 800-548-6914; www.baker-online.com CIRCLE 258

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CROSSCUT SAW

From Paul Saws & Systems, the Pushcut CX-Z CNC optimizing crosscut features a total grip system for precise material handling at high speeds. The saw also has a new control that the company says results in complete connectivity. 678-444-5000; www.paulsaws.com CIRCLE 259

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