Welcome to the first edition of PRODUCTIVITY BOOSTERS, a series of three e-newsletters featuring machinery and supplies from WMMA members exhibiting at AWFS 2007 — complete with booth number and contact information. PRODUCTIVITY BOOSTERS is specially presented by the Wood Machinery Manufacturers of America, in collaboration with Wood & Wood Products and Custom Woodworking Business magazines.

As an added feature, to the right is an alphabetical list of WMMA members exhibiting at AWFS, along with each company's corresponding booth number and a link to its Web site.

This month’s Productivity Boosters:

Vortex Tool Company Inc. 5605 Jelinek Avenue, Schofield, Wisconsin 54476 (800) 355-7708 info@vortextool.com www.vortextool.com AWFS in Booth No. 5008

Insert Router Tooling
Turn your flat table router into a dovetail machine. Vortex Tool Co. introduces a tooling package that will allow you to use any flat table CNC router to manufacture dovetail drawer boxes. By using a combination of a specially designed profile insert router bits and standard straight tooling, you can make a true male/female style dovetail joint while machining all pieces laying flat on the table.

Komo Machine, Inc. 11 Industrial Blvd. Sauk Rapids, MN 56379 (800) 643-5089 info@komo.com www.komo.com AWFS in Booth No. 5322

Fusion CNC Router
The New Fusion Series CNC Machining Centers from Komo Machine Inc. can be equipped with a fully automatic Material Handling System. The system will load, unload and clean the table in one pass to give your company the speed and precision that is needed to keep your machine running in its most productive state.

Safranek Ent., Inc. 4005 El Camino Real Atascadero, CA 93422 (800) 553-9344 sales@hersaf.com www.hersaf.com AWFS in Booth No. 23002

Insert Tooling
At this year's AWFS Fair, Safranek Enterprises Inc., will introduce the newest addition to the Her-Saf Insert Tooling line, Round-Over Insert Quick Change cutter with bearing — available in a 1/8-, 3/16- and 1/4-inch radius.

Larick Machinery, Inc 4000 Main St. PO Box 308 Timnath, CO 80547 (970) 224-3061 info@larickmachinery.com www.larickmachinery.com AWFS in Booth No. 13100

Profile Sander
Larick Machinery's Model 360 can tilt either forward or backward to minimize the depth the profile goes into the wheel, and to keep the abrasive as flat as possible on the wheel. It also has a simple, stationary, rigid, but removable fence, and features both vertical and horizontal spindle adjustment from the front of the machine. Horizontal spindle adjustment allows the operator to quickly make fine adjustments of sanding pressure without moving the fence. The newly re-designed Model 360B uses an inverter for speed control, and the spindle tilts easily with a crank and easy to read scale.

Deimco Finishing Equipment 1004 E. 5th St. Tama, IA 52339 (800) 728-8806 marv@deimco.com www.deimco.com AWFS in Booth No. 1615

Lineal Finishing System
Deimco’s PLC controlled Multiple Canopy Lineal Finishing System is a complete in-line spray finishing system capable of finishing more than 300 fpm in both conventional and UV coatings.  Deimco's multiple canopy machines allow you to run completely diverse finishes on the same line without contamination issues.

Super Thin Saws Inc. P.O. Box 299, Route 2 Moretown Commercial Center Waterbury, VT 05676 (800) 514-SAWS sales@superthinsaws.com www.superthinsaws.com AWFS Booth No. 16072

Splitting Saws
Super Thin Saws' FL Series splitting saws are designed specifically for the production of sawn veneers, using double vertical arbor splitting units. The saws use double-hub, tapered-rim circular sawblades, to achieve maximum stiffness with minimum steel thickness and minimum kerf. The uniquely high stiffness-to-kerf-squared ratio allows users to achieve maximum yield and maximum feed rate, with minimum lamella size variation.

Great Lakes Custom Tool Mfg., Inc. 101 N. Old Peshtigo Road Peshtigo, WI 54157 (800) 873-4528 info@glct.com www.glct.com AWFS Booth No. 13163

Helicarb Cutterhead
The patent-pending Helicarb cutterhead offers the woodworking industry cutters that feature a continuous, one-piece replaceable twisted carbide blade — not a segmented design. The blade produces a smooth shearing action, like a scissors when cutting, and reduces tear-out. The one-piece twisted blade is replaceable, and can be easily sharpened with proper grinding — keeping downtime to a minimum. The Helicarb cutterhead can be jointed to attain a multi-knife finish and achieve true running accuracy within 0.0005-inch.

Ogden Group 1320 Industrial Drive Matthews, NC 28105 (704) 845-2785 sales@ogden-group.com www.ogden-group.com AWFS Booth No. 12076 and 13079

Slant Bed Gluers
RfsProtech’s SL Series of Slant Bed Gluers is use to clamp and cure components for a variety of applications including kitchen cabinets, door frames and stairs. The SL model is compact and requires minimal floor space, but because of the radio frequency technology, it has the capability for high production while providing consistent glue joint strength.

Carter Products Company Inc. 2871 Northridge Dr. NW Grand Rapids, MI 49544 (888) 622-7837 sales@carterproducts.com www.carterproducts.com AWFS Booth No. 12088

SandTrac Monitor
Carter Products introduces a new version of its SandTrac Width Utilization Promptor/Monitor. Carter says the SandTrac helps operators and supervisors manage abrasive belt usage, improving product consistency and reducing abrasives costs. SandTrac monitors operator input, and outputs a real-time LED graph reflecting belt usage patterns directly on the front of the machine. The graph indicates where abrasive belt wear is the greatest, prompting the operator to utilize other sections of the widebelt.

The PRODUCTIVITY TIPS series is presented by the Wood Machinery Manufacturers of America (www.wmma.org) in partnership with Wood & Wood Products and Custom Woodworking Business (www.iswonline.com).

The opinions expressed are those of the individual companies responding to each question and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of the WMMA, W&WP and CWB.

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