Founded in 1938, Akhurst is one of North America’s largest independent machinery distributors, with five branches strategically located across Canada, along with a sales office dedicated to their U.S. customer base. Akhurst Machinery Group also includes the operations of Cantek America Inc. and Leadermac USA who are set up to distribute equipment directly and through dealers throughout the United States. With sales and service staff strategically located across Canada and the US, Akhurst can offer their customers local support that is unparalleled in the industry. Working as a full-service organization, they can assist you with the selection of your equipment, financing, installation, training, parts support, and after-sales service. Cantek America Inc. | Leading and providing solid wood and panel processing machinery with top design quality and excellent overall dollar value for the North American market since 1985. Leadermac USA | Manufacturing moulders to the highest quality standards and offering the latest technology together with the greatest productivity at the lowest unit cost since 1972.
KVAL Inc.
Kval Machinery (www.kvalinc.com) sets the standard for residential and commercial door equipment, specializing in high quality and innovative CNC machines for door manufacturers and distributors alike. Kval is family-owned and operated and has served the woodworking industry since 1947. The company was founded in 1947 by A.A Kvalheim, a Norwegian cabinet-making carpenter who utilized his skillset and ingenuity to design and build revolutionary machinery. Since inception in the mid 40’s, KVAL has focused its efforts on providing its customers with innovative equipment of the highest quality while instilling teamwork, honesty, and integrity throughout. KVAL maintains its high-quality product by controlling each step of the manufacturing process here in the United States. Within the KVAL facility, raw steel is received and finished machinery is shipped; we design, cut, machine, weld, paint, wire, and program each and every machine “in-house” with the best components and materials available. As KVAL has past our 75th year servicing the woodworking industry, the 3rd and 4th Generations continue to grow the KVAL legacy by leading the industry in CNC technology, state-of-the-art machine software, robust safety features and provides our customers with cutting edge support solutions.
Kouros Tools
Kouros Tools is an innovation-driven woodworking and carpentry tool company founded by Dino Kouros, a tradesman with a background in custom millwork, cabinetry, and real-world field experience. The company develops practical, affordable tools and systems designed to improve efficiency, accuracy, and workflow for professionals in the shop and on the jobsite. Built from hands-on trade experience, Kouros Tools focuses on identifying everyday challenges in woodworking, finish carpentry, and cabinet installation, then creating solutions that are useful, cost-effective, and easy to integrate into real working environments. The product line includes patented and patent-pending innovations, modular clamping systems, specialty tools, and workflow-enhancing accessories for cabinet shops, finish carpenters, woodworkers, and serious makers. A cornerstone of the company is the patented VACPAD System, one of the original product lines that helped establish the Kouros Tools brand. The VACPAD System is a portable and stationary vacuum pad holding system for woodworking applications in the shop or on site. Compact, versatile, and easy to reposition, it acts like an extra set of hands for finish carpentry and other detailed tasks, with multiple attachments and supporting innovations built around the system. Additional featured products include the patent-pending Miter Clamp, designed to improve miter clamping for trim carpentry; Sand-R-Light, a custom-fit lighting attachment for sanders that reveals surface imperfections with raking light; and modular cabinet door and face-frame clamping systems that help shops assemble more efficiently at a lower cost than many traditional alternatives. Kouros Tools stands apart through fast in-house product development, allowing ideas to move quickly from concept to prototype to market while maintaining a strong focus on function, affordability, and innovation. The company serves both end users and a growing dealer and distributor network, with a mission to bring smarter, field-tested solutions to the woodworking and carpentry industries.
Koch Machinery & Systems
Koch Machinery offers drilling and doweling equipment for both single-end computer controlled and double-end configurations. Paul Saws division offers optimized crosscut saws as well as moving blade ripsaws for solid wood and wide arbor ripsaw for panel material. We also offer a full range of Dynma case and door clamps as well as orbital wrapping solutions from Plasticband. Through our partners at Zippy Vision, we offer a profile scanning solution for inspection and evaluation for precise quality control of wood profiles
Ideal Machine
Ideal Machine started in 2013 with a vision to help manufacturing businesses be more efficient and productive – and therefore more profitable. Ideal Machine offers a full line of custom machinery options including 3D design, electronic controls, air controls, hydraulic controls, general fabrication, and other custom designs! We offer a range of industrial woodworking machinery including our HSK Wood Molder the RM-100, a simple shaper the IM-101, three Half-Lap Machine variations, and a cope machine. In addition to industrial woodworking machinery, Ideal Machine partnered with Universal Robots, and in 2023 we became a Certified UR Integrator. We now offer collaborative robot automation for manufacturing. These cobot functions include sanding, welding, machine tending, material handling, polishing, and more. Ideal Machine selectively takes on custom manufacturing projects each year. We love helping our customers solve their problems with custom applications that increase the throughput of materials and maximize efficiency. We’re excited to meet you this year at IWF, make sure you stop by our booth and introduce yourself.
Hymmen GmbH Maschinen- und Anlagenbau
Hymmen is a medium-sized mechanical and plant engineering company with 130 years of tradition. We predominantly deal with industrial production technology for the large volume production of board materials or the surface finishing of board or roll materials. Our headquarters with office buildings and production halls are located in the heart of Bielefeld, Germany. With 230 employees worldwide we work on investment projects for our customers in the following industries: Furniture, Flooring, Doors/Gates, Decorative Laminates, Building Materials, Engineered Wood As highly innovative and forward-looking high-tech company we continuously develop and manufacture state-of-the-art machines and plants for our customers. Our products (machines and lines) are divided into the following areas: Double Belt Presses, Multi Opening Presses, Laminating Lines, Lines for Liquid Coating, Calender Coating Inert (CCI), Industrial Digital Printing Lines, Automation and Control Technology, Service Our customers profit from our technological partnership. We operate a spacious technical center and laboratory in which we can test and optimize all production processes with customers’ original materials. Our long-standing relationships with customers speak for themselves. Hymmen is the right partner for every customer seeking high-quality mechanical engineering combined with profound technological know-how, innovative strength and development potential for its own products within our industry.