FurnitureToday: New orders for furniture rose 11% in December compared with December 2015. That’s according to the latest Furniture Insights survey of residential manufacturers and distributors from High Point accounting and consulting firm Smith Leonard.
Curious as to how industrial distributors are embracing (or not) new technology, particularly e-commerce tech? If so, check out this recent inddist.com blog post.
In this webinar, you will learn how manufacturers and distributors who invest in native mobile ordering applications have an enormous opportunity to transform their customer experiences, build customer loyalty, and win business from competitors.
Woodworking Network has opened the call for nominations in its 2017 Wood Industry 40 Under 40 award program, the second annual effort to recognize superstars in the wood manufacturing industry.
Ligna 2017 to be bigger and “different” Timber Trades Journal-5 hours ago The central focus of LIGNA 2017 is on intelligent concepts for integrated manufacturing across multiple links in the wood processing chain.
Doucet Machineries DSS400 featured in a recent episode of the "Daily Planet"show (Discovery channel). Here is the youtube link to view Pascal talk about this impressive machine. https://youtu.be/ltQP4EG1KYM
U.S. Census Bureau releases new data on building permits in January 2017 showing seasonally adjusted annual rate (SAAR) of 1,285,000, up 4.6 percent from the revised December rate, and up 8.2 percent from January 2016. Housing starts in January 2017 were…
From NYtimes.com - "John Deere has designed a curriculum and donated farm equipment to several community colleges to train technicians for its dealer network. About 15 to 20 students come through the program at Walla Walla each semester. Because they…
According to the Reimagining Distributor and Manufacturer Relationships survey of 246 NAED companies (102 distributors and 144 manufacturers), a full 91% of participants said there is a real need for manufacturers and distributors to reimagine how they can better work…
Atlantic Machinery Corporation and Vitap S.p.A. have just released information and a video on the 2017 Point Grooving, a sister machine to the 2016 Challengers Award Finalist the Vitap Point Acoustic, the successful compact CNC machine dedicated to the execution…