Company Category: Dowel Rods and Pins

U.S. Futaba, Inc.

Since 1983, U.S. Futaba has been connecting global suppliers with North American furniture hardware markets. With distribution centers on both the East and West coasts, we ensure stability and consistent inventory levels. Guided by our core values – Quality, Availability, and Service – we value authenticity—offering not just quality products, but genuine partnerships. | Since 1983, U.S. Futaba has been a well-known name in the furniture hardware industry. Our core values – Quality, Availability, and Service are the foundation of our work. Our well-established global sourcing capabilities ensure stability with consistent inventory and quality products. For over 40 years, U.S. Futaba, Inc. has been connecting global suppliers with the North American furniture hardware markets through the distribution centers strategically located on the East and West coasts. Our customers’ satisfaction is the motivation behind the unparalleled service U.S. Futaba provides. In a landscape dominated by facades, we value authenticity, offering both quality products and genuine partnerships. We are not just about transactions – we are about connections.

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Titus Precision Company (Titus Group)

Titus Group’s mission is to develop and manufacture innovative hardware solutions that ensure customers’ competitiveness by improving their products and efficiency while also reducing the cost of their processes. Titus maintains their global leading role and growth of market share in target segments by investing in product improvements and production efficiency. Titus hardware solutions include connectors that provide “Consumer Assembly Friendliness,” concealed hinges with consumer-preferred Confident Close soft action, Tekform Drawers, and the multi-purpose Titus Damper that provides soft-close damping technology for applications in furniture, interior sliding doors, swing doors, household appliances, and various other industries. Titus has more than 60 years of experience and provides products and services to customers in more than 70 countries from manufacturing facilities based in Europe, North America, China, Southeast Asia, Australia, and New Zealand.

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Thompson Forest Products International

Supplier of solid wood components, turnings, and mouldings. Thompson Forest Products supplies semi- or fully-machined wood components and dimensional products. Servicing the housewares, furniture, hospitality, hardware, sporting goods, and fixture industries, we offer dimension lumber, solid and laminated squares, dowels, edge glued panels, solid wood table tops, butcher block, hardwood frame assemblies, handles, and bat-billets. We provide both custom and production turnings, mouldings, and a variety of fully and semi-machined shaped parts to meet your specific needs. Our components are accurate and ready to use for efficient production at your facility and to meet the quality specifications our customers require. Specializing in: CNC Routing; Lumber; Curved Components; Mouldings; Custom Wood Products; Shaped & Profiled Components; Dimension; Slats; Dowels; Squares; Edge-Glued Panels; Table Tops; Butcher Block; Frame Assemblies; Tenoning; Handles; and Turnings.

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Striplox

As the industry leader, Striplox sets the benchmark for design and innovation. Our world-class range of joining products makes assembly so easy. Strong and secure our panel fixing systems, wood joining systems, invisible fixings, timber joiners, shelf supports, furniture connectors, furniture screws and metal brackets. Striplox solutions make all construction and assembly processes cost effective with less labor and installation time. Since 2010, Striplox has received numerous innovation awards including the Visionary New Product Award for Innovation at the International AWFS Fair held in Las Vegas 2015 and the ABC’s New Inventors Award. Striplox systems are revolutionising every industry sector and are being used by some of the world’s largest manufacturers and industry-leading organisations. You’ll be impressed with our clever range of Retail and Trade products, along with our popular Accessories. Whether you require permanent joints for kitchen cabinetry and furniture or temporary joints for retail displays and signage, we have the perfect solution for you. BREAKING NEWS – LAUNCHING THE NEW ‘STICKMAN’ BRAND! Striplox has successfully launch the Stickman range. or Innovative visible edge profiles. This exciting new product range has been in development and is now ready for the market. Stickman – “Innovative Visible Edge Profiles” add slimline corner protection for any joinery product and has unlimited application potential. International Stickman Sales Director – Dean Urquhart will be at the AWFS Show ready to answer your questions and demonstrate how Stickman works and the many advantages it has over existing products. SEE THE STICKMAN RANGE visit www.striplox/stickman.com | Innovative and award-winning international company Joinlox is experiencing very strong global demand and sales growth for its rapid installation, strong and concealed fastening and joining systems – Striplox. The patented Striplox range fills a large gap in the joining and fastening market, leading to the opening of a new North American distribution centre to further service international market demand in the US, Canada and Europe. The leading-edge concealed fastening systems are strong and durable, providing rapid installation off-site or on-site without the need for specialist tools or personnel. This gives ease-of-us and significant cost savings across numerous uses and industries. Striplox Sales and Marketing Manager, Dean Urquhart said innovation is at the core of Striplox’s success, investing heavily in and focusing on research and development. “We listen closely to the market and this feeds the full pipeline of our new products being released regularly,” he said. Due to recent market research and innovation, Striplox currently has one dozen new products undergoing design, development and testing to be trailed and released into the market in the near future. Striplox’s innovation success goes from strength to strength and it recently won the Visionary New Product Award for Innovation and Productivity at the international AWFS Fair held in Las Vegas in July which was attended by over 15 thousand participants. The key to Striplox is its innovative connecting and fastening method delivering strength and durability in one action by transferring load capacities evenly over a series of interlocking teeth across the entire length of the joint. The Striplox range is supplied to some of the world’s largest industry-leading organisations. Striplox is the perfect joining solution for: · Commercial and office design · Architectural features · Cabinetry · Kitchens and bathrooms designs · Furniture manufacture · Architectural projects · Exhibition displays · Retail and office fit-outs · Panel & ceiling joinery · RTA / Knock Down Components

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OVVO

The OVVO connection system is an award-winning, innovative product that enables a new way to join finished board products invisibly, while also eliminating the lengthy assembly times typically associated with flat-pack furniture assembly. The OVVO connection system will eliminate hours of frustration that comes with flat pack assembly, there will be no more use for tools, glues or screws. The concept is a push fit solution that allows two pieces of material to join together easily without the use of tools, glues or screws. The action is simple, all you have to do is ‘push’ them together and wait for the ‘click’ which indicates that the ‘connection’ has been made. It is an invisible solution with one element embedded in the material while the interlocking, self-clamping clip forms a tightly held bond between the two pieces of material being joined.

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Milescraft, Inc

Milescraft’s mission is to offer a broad range of high-quality, innovative, and affordable product solutions that enable the user to complete projects quickly, accurately, and easily. All of their products are designed, developed and engineered in the US to meet the needs of the end users, whether they are hobbyists, woodworkers, or professional contractors.

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Lockdowel

Lockdowel increases your profit by providing a fastening solution to make assembly and installation fast and easy. Installation of cabinets, closets, furniture, wall panels, and other woodworking applications becomes effortless. Our solutions require no glue, screws or tools for assembly or installation, and are invisible once installed. Lockdowel connectors can be installed automatically or manually. Customers report reducing assembly labor time by up to 60%, with assembly speeds averaging less than 3 minutes per cabinet. And training time for new personnel is virtually eliminated. Lockdowel also works perfectly for flat-packing, enabling low shipping costs to the on-site job build, and occupying minimal space and product damage when warehousing. Cabinets and furniture made using Lockdowel fasteners pass all ANSI/BIFMA tests and provide very strong joints. Lockdowel’s fastening solution is AWI tested and approved to Duty Level 3 and has passed KCMA testing. The company also offers the Visionary Award winning drawer slide line and hinges, which utilize the patented Lockdowel Channel Lock assembly technology. The new One-Click sidemount and undermount 3D adjusting slides enable rapid drawer slide installation…like fastening a seatbelt. FastCompany magazine selected Lockdowel as one of the Top 10 Most Innovative companies in the world in 2021. | Lockdowel provides wood-product manufacturers with simple assembly solutions that enable higher profitability, high-end quality, and customer satisfaction. Lockdowel’s invisible slide-to-lock fasteners and One-Click drawer slides are glue-less and tool-free, providing the industry’s leanest and fastest assembly process for cabinets, furniture, closets, drawers, and ready-to-assemble (RTA) designs. | Lockdowel increases your profit by providing a fastening solution to simplify the assembly and installation of cabinets, closets, furniture, and other woodworking applications. Lockdowel Eclips fasteners can be installed automatically or manually. They require no glue, screws or tools for assembly or installation, and are completely invisible once installed resulting in high-end aesthetics your customers will rave about. Cabinets and furniture made using Lockdowel connectors pass all ANSI/BIFMA tests and provide very strong joints. Lockdowel’s fastening solution is AWI tested and approved to Duty Level 3 and has passed KCMA testing. Customers report reducing assembly labor time by 40% to 60%, with assembly speeds averaging less than 3 minutes per cabinet. Training new personnel is just as easy — new hires are able to build cabinets on their own in less than an hour! Special skilled labor is not necessary for fast and easy assembly. For customers who wish to flat-pack, Lockdowel is perfect, enabling the lowest cost shipping possible to the on-site job build. Warehousing flat-packed also occupies the least amount of space with minimal damage to finished goods. The company also offers the Visionary Award winning Drawer slide line and hinges, which utilize the patented Lockdowel Channel Lock assembly technology. Our new One-Click sidemount and undermount 3D adjusting slides enable a rapid slide-and-click drawer slide installation time similar to the time it takes to fasten a seatbelt. Automated CNC boring and insertion solutions for EClips are available from premier machinery manufacturers and leading software libraries. Lockdowel was awarded by FastCompany magazine in 2021 as one of the Top 10 Most Innovative companies in the world! It’s easy to see why so many woodworking businesses are switching to Lockdowel for their assembly processes.

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Hafele America Co.

Häfele America Co. serves the U.S. market with innovative services and solutions by focusing on delivering functional hardware and specialty fittings to meet your construction needs. Our corporate offices and primary distribution center are located in Archdale, North Carolina, with regional distribution centers in Torrance, California; Fort Worth, Texas and Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania. Häfele is known internationally as a leading source of hardware, fitting systems, lighting and electronic locking systems. | Häfele America Co. serves the closet industry with a wide range of products which add function, style and wow including hardware fittings, LED lighting, organizational solutions and much more to closets, home offices, garages, mud rooms, entertainment centers and beyond. | Häfele is a leading worldwide supplier of furniture and architectural hardware components that improve the functionality of cabinets, doors, kitchens, bathrooms and other living and working environments with products such as LED lighting, smart home technology, decorative hardware, opening and closing mechanisms for doors and drawers, furniture fittings and electronic locking systems. For more information, please visit www.hafele.com.

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Excel Dowel & Wood Products, LLC

Excel Dowel & Wood Products is a full-service manufacturing & distribution company. We warehouse over 150 million Plain & Pre-Glued Dowel Pins, Dowel Rods, Joining Biscuits, Wood Plugs, Wood Buttons and Spindles. We offer quality domestically produced Turnings and Component Parts including Kitchen Island Columns, Square, Tapered and Turned Legs, Table Bases and Feet, Custom Turnings and Butcher Blocks. All are available at very competitive prices with low minimums and short lead times. Excel’s unique capabilities and extensive manufacturing network allow us to supply virtually any Wood Product, Part or Component required. Our attention to detail during the entire manufacturing process ensures that only the highest quality products are delivered to your door.

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Carolina Machinery Sales

Carolina Machinery Sales (CMS) buys and sells used machinery in the wood industry. We work with dealers, technicians and end users to move surplus equipment. In addition to Used Machinery, CMS also represents North America for Big on Dry Thermal Modification Kilns and Timber Treatment Solutions for pressure treating and timber incising. •Woodworking •Panel Processing •Sawmill •Pallet •Wood Shavings •Dust Collection *Biomass | Carolina Machinery Sales (CMS) buys and sells used machinery in the wood industry. We work with dealers, technicians and end users to move surplus equipment. In addition to Used Machinery, CMS also represents North America for Big on Dry Thermal Modification Kilns, Timber Treatment Solutions pressure treating and timber incising, and Tuff Stix aluminum kiln sticks. •Woodworking •Panel Processing •Sawmill •Pallet •Wood Shavings •Dust Collection *Biomass •Moulders •Planers •CNC Routers •Edgebanders •Panel Saws •Solid Wood •Wood waste and Biomass

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