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
James L. Taylor Mfg. / Ultimizers
James L. Taylor Mfg. has been manufacturing woodworking equipment in Poughkeepsie, NY since 1911. With three distinct product lines we aim to help our customers improve their processes with American made, well built, efficient and safe machinery. JLT Clamps is our custom shop clamping line that focuses on door, drawer, edge, and face gluing applications. The machines are compact, sturdy, and simple to use. Taylor Clamps, known mostly for our Clamp Carrier, takes door clamping, edge and face gluing, and glue application to the next level. Clamp Carriers, Door Pros, conveyorized applicators, and return conveyors are the main stays of the Taylor line. Cameron Automation is the third product line built in Poughkeepsie and is focused on computer controlled optimizing equipment. Ripping, cross cutting, panel sizing, color matching of panels, and automated nesting of flooring bundles has been our focus for the past 25 years. As a company, Taylor has taken the leap into automation to help our customers become more productive and more efficient. Our Engineering and Programming teams focus their energy on systems built around our “main” line of products to move materials in and away. Utilizing conveyors and chain systems of all sorts, along with sophisticated PLC programming, our aim is to be able to provide complete solutions for our customers, maximize their productivity, and reduce their labor input to a manageable and profitable level. Being able to offer these types of solutions, and building them in the US, has given us the ability to expand this part of our business in North America. We look forward to working with you on a project in the future!
iBiD Machinery/StarV USA
Looking to trade your equipment for new equipment or searching for late model machines to increase production? iBid has you covered. iBid buys and sells premier brands of Routers, Edgebanders, Widebelt Sanders, Sliding Table Saws, Planers, Moulders and shop essentials for Flat Panel and Solid Wood Processing. We provide door to door service including setup, freight and installation. Simply put, iBiD provides the most efficient way to buy and sell woodworking equipment. Featured IWF Show partner is StarV Machinery. See this SLG-2000 V Groover in action at our booth. The SLG-2000 V-Groover is the top of the line V-groover for the serious solid surface fabricator. It is designed to v-groove various wood materials, wood composites or plastics such as solid surface. V-Folds to create a build-up front edge, cove back splash profile, scribe strip, triple fold profiles, dado for back panel, double edge shelving etc. This machine comes standard with all available options for enhanced operator convenience and performance.
Hasko / Mekanika
Are you ready for Heavy-Built Performance? HASKO Industries rough-mill, lumber processing and flooring machinery incorporates robust engineering, state-of-the-art 21st century technology and the industry’s best service and support. Hasko partners with USNR, the world’s largest, most comprehensive supplier of equipment and technologies for the wood processing industry and Mekanika, the North American leader in Automated Material Handling for Lumber, Moulding, Furniture, and Flooring Manufacturers. Our goal is to ensure that our customers maintain a competitive advantage in a challenging global manufacturing environment. HASKO and its partners have delivered hundreds of machines to customers who demand the ultimate in accuracy, efficiency, productivity, and performance. When you buy from HASKO, there is no middleman — you deal directly with the manufacturer. Call us to see how our custom machine solutions and automation expertise can help your company improve yield, reduce labor, and improve efficiencies and output. Hasko/Mekanika/USNR are proven manufacturers, delivering Heavy-Built Performance and innovative solutions.