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Harry Urban

Harry Urban is the retired publisher of the Woodworking Network. Urban spent more than 30 years working in business-to-business publishing, trade shows, and conferences. He has travelled extensively throughout North America and overseas visiting and reporting on major manufacturing facilities and trade shows. In retirement, he's still following the woodworking industry, but he plans to do a lot more fishing.

Wood Pro Expo Lancaster

Connectors eliminate the need for edge drilling

LANCASTER --  Colonial Saw's Cabineo is a time-saving furniture connector that eliminates the need for edge drilling. The concept behind Cabineo is to use a minimal amount of resources for a maximum of functionality, offering considerable advantages throughout the entire process.  Cabineo is inserted into a surface-only routed shape on the cabinet during production or installation. When factory-installed, they are easily flat-packed for transport, and end-users don’t need to install loose fittings.

Wood Pro Expo Lancaster

Multi-router designed for small shops

LANCASTER -- Lorraine Machine, Inc. will be displaying the Multi-Router at Wood Pro Expo Lancaster.  The company says the Multi-Router is the ultimate joinery machine for small shops. If its face frames, doors, or drawers, in the custom cabinet shop, the Multi-Router can handle these tasks with surprising ease. For the custom furniture maker it  can produce difficult angled and compound angle tenons and mortises in seconds.

Wood Pro Expo Lancaster

Tool-free adjustability for roll-out shelving

LANCASTER -- The X-Series Bracket System by Century Components is a revolutionary product, designed to provide affordable, high quality, tool-free adjustability for roll-out shelving systems. Installation is quick and easy for kitchen builders and simple to use and adjust for consumers. Tool-free adjustability allows users to move their shelves up or down after the kitchen is installed.  Tested to over 400,000 open/close cycles.

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Video: SCM's enhanced Maestro IoT in the limelight at Xylexpo 2018

MILAN, Italy --  "For a smart factory to truly be 'smart' machines in different workshops and different operators in the production chain must be linked by a common flow of integrated information," said Luigi De Vito, SCM Division Director.  De Vito said the new generation of SCM machines are able to collect data through smart components (sensors, microprocessors, software, etc.), and connectivity systems.  The company's Maestro software and sophisticated algorithms are then able to extract valuable information for customers from the data, including, for e