As the industry’s leading provider of advanced manufacturing solutions, Stiles has been helping manufacturers nationwide increase their efficiency and productivity for over 50 years. Stiles is a proud member of the HOMAG Group, a global leader in the production of industrial manufacturing machinery. With world-class machinery backed by an experienced and responsive support team, extensive parts inventory, unique upgrade capabilities and a nationally accredited education and training program, Stiles offers a solution for every challenge. Headquartered in Grand Rapids, Michigan, Stiles has regional offices in High Point, North Carolina; Bristol, Pennsylvania; Coppell, Texas; and Rancho Cucamonga, California. | For more than 60 years, Stiles Machinery has helped woodworking manufacturers transform how they produce, compete, and grow. As part of the HOMAG Group and exclusive partner to leading brands across all processes and applications, we deliver the industry’s most comprehensive portfolio of advanced woodworking and manufacturing technology and software, backed by unmatched service and support. Solutions for Every Stage of Production From single machines to fully integrated production systems, Stiles offers solutions across the entire manufacturing process: CNC Routing & Machining: Nested-based manufacturing, pod and rail, 5-axis processing, drilling, doweling, and precision shaping Edgebanding: Automated edge processing, zero-edge technology, contour edging, and return conveyor systems Sawing & Cutting: Panel saws, beam saws, and other high-speed cutting systems Sanding & Finishing: Wide-belt sanding, automated finishing lines, and surface technology Material Handling Automation: Robotics, storage systems, and integrated work cells Solid Wood Processing: Planing, moulding, profiling, and more Mass Timber Construction: Radio-frequency presses and advanced production systems from Kallesoe and System TM Digital Software: Production optimization, data integration, and smart factory solutions Whether you are a smaller shop looking to increase throughput or a large manufacturer implementing full automation strategies, Stiles provides scalable technology designed to meet you where you are and grow with you. Service That Sets the Standard Our commitment extends far beyond installation. Stiles offers comprehensive lifecycle services including on-site service technicians, in-house technical support, 24/7 parts, and accredited in-person and online training. With the largest service team in the industry, we help manufacturers maximize uptime, performance, and return on investment. Built for Today & Ready for Tomorrow Manufacturing is evolving rapidly. Labor challenges, material efficiency, customization demands, and digital transformation require smart, flexible solutions. Stiles delivers the equipment, automation, software, and support needed to stay competitive today and into the future. Visit us to explore how Stiles Machinery can help you optimize production, improve efficiency, and unlock your next level of growth.
Sjöbergs Workbenches AB
Sjöbergs Workbenches is a Swedish manufacturer of premium workbenches and workshop furniture with a heritage dating back to 1922. For more than a century, we have combined traditional craftsmanship with modern manufacturing to create durable, functional workbenches used by professionals, schools, and makers around the world. All Sjöbergs workbenches are developed with a strong focus on quality, ergonomics, and long-term performance. Using carefully selected hardwoods and high-quality materials, our products are designed to withstand heavy daily use and to support creative work for generations. In addition to our classic woodworking benches, our range includes flexible solutions for educational environments, storage systems, and height-adjustable workstations that promote inclusive and ergonomic learning spaces. With production based in Sweden and distribution worldwide, Sjöbergs Workbenches stands for Scandinavian design, sustainability, and a genuine passion for craftsmanship.
Pennsylvania Hardwoods Development Council
The Pennsylvania Hardwoods Development Council promotes the forest products industry from Pennsylvania and provides information about hardwood lumber, logs, veneer, and other secondary wood product suppliers. Pennsylvania has the largest hardwood forest in the United States with over 123 billion board feet of standing saw timber. The state is also a major supplier for FSC and SFI certified materials.
National Woods Board (NWB)
Discover a game-changing solution to your workforce needs. Say goodbye to recruitment challenge and hello to skilled, dedicated professionals passionate about the woodworking industry. Embark on a journey with the National Woods Board our mission is to replicate the highly successful MiLL model across the United States. We’re dedicated to providing a proven curriculum of technical education for wood products manufacturing to high schools and post-secondary institutions. Our vision goes beyond education; it’s about shaping a workforce that meets the industry’s demands. We aim to deliver employees equipped with both technical expertise and essential soft skills. Join us in fulfilling the massive workforce needs of the wood products manufacturing industry. Be a part of progress with the National Woods Board for a future-ready workforce! The National Woods Board is YOUR advocate for a thriving future. Your involvement is crucial in shaping the path forward. Join the cause today and be a part of something bigger. Your tax-deductible donation can make a significant impact. Your support fuels the future of woodworking education. Let’s build a future that’s truly yours. Join us the National Woods Board awaits your contribution!
National Woods Board (NWB)
Discover a game-changing solution to your workforce needs. Say goodbye to recruitment challenge and hello to skilled, dedicated professionals passionate about the woodworking industry. Embark on a journey with the National Woods Board our mission is to replicate the highly successful MiLL model across the United States. We’re dedicated to providing a proven curriculum of technical education for wood products manufacturing to high schools and post-secondary institutions. Our vision goes beyond education; it’s about shaping a workforce that meets the industry’s demands. We aim to deliver employees equipped with both technical expertise and essential soft skills. Join us in fulfilling the massive workforce needs of the wood products manufacturing industry. Be a part of progress with the National Woods Board for a future-ready workforce! The National Woods Board is YOUR advocate for a thriving future. Your involvement is crucial in shaping the path forward. Join the cause today and be a part of something bigger. Your tax-deductible donation can make a significant impact. Your support fuels the future of woodworking education. Let’s build a future that’s truly yours. Join us the National Woods Board awaits your contribution!
IWF Design Emphasis Student Competition
IWF Design Emphasis is widely acclaimed as a foremost furniture design competition for U.S. college students. Sponsored by IWF and its owner WIA, the Design Emphasis competition affords students a platform to demonstrate design skills and talent in an independent adjudication conducted by furniture industry designers, manufacturing and retail executives, and representatives from the design media community. Among previous Design Emphasis winners are internationally acclaimed furniture designer Ini Archibong, design artist Christopher Stuart and others. The competition provides a global stage housed in an international trade show environment where students from across the U.S. engage in idea exchange, make key career contacts and capture the attention of the design community. See what’s new in young designers at Booth C922.
GRIT Automation, Inc.
A new company on the national stage, GRIT boasts patent-pending IP, powerful yet intuitive software, and intelligently designed hardware to bring your shop into the modern era. GRIT’s product line includes automated dust collection, blast gates, and air filtration with features and prices that no other product on the market offers. GRIT’s revolutionary platform offers, for the first time ever, tool-level user access control, currently being used for the past 2 years at the University of Illinois and maker spaces. For industrial customers, GRIT has products purpose-built for the demanding environment of manufacturing, including our industrial 480V 3PH products and variable frequency drive controllers. Add to that an integrated asset management system, and you have a market-disrupting company poised to help customers take control of their shops.
Georgia Forestry Commission
The Georgia Forestry Commission provides leadership, service, and education in the protection and conservation of Georgia’s forest resources. Georgia’s 24 million acres of timberlands are sustainable & growing – tree growth exceeds removals by 46% per year. GFC provides forest resource analysis and marketing assistance to existing and prospective industries.
FANUC America
FANUC—an acronym for Fuji Automatic Numerical Control—was established in Japan in 1972, but its history began long before that when the first numerical control in Japan’s private sector was successfully developed in 1956. In 1982, FANUC brought its technology to the U.S. in the form of industrial robots. Since that time, we’ve never looked back – and today FANUC is the global leader in CNC systems, robotics, and ROBOMACHINEs with over 40 million products installed worldwide. | FANUC es el líder global en ROBOTICA, CNC’s y ROBOMACHINE’s con más de 40 millones de productos instalados. En FANUC estamos comprometidos a brindar soluciones de automatización que ayuden a cualquier compañía en alcanzar sus metas de producción, con la máxima calidad y simplicidad de integración. FANUC ofrece productos de la más alta tecnología que pueden eficientemente ser instalados desde pequeños talleres hasta grandes ensambladoras, siempre con la inigualable confiabilidad y el respaldo del mejor servicio post-venta en las más de 300 oficinas alrededor del mundo. | Innovation defines the food and beverage industry, and FANUC robots are perfect for bringing your operations to the next level. Whether you’re facing labor challenges or changing customer demands, robots offer a scalable automation solution that can be implemented quickly to maximize productivity, increase food safety as well as boost your bottom line keeping your business competitive. From food-grade robots and cobots to FANUC’s first stainless steel, food-grade Delta robot—the DR-3iB/6—and beyond, our robots and cobots can help streamline both primary and secondary food processing needs. Whether it’s palletizing, labeling, wrapping or picking and packing, FANUC’s ready-to-order variants can automate many manual tasks to enable your food manufacturing options to stay nimble and competitive. Visit the FANUC booth to see our Food-Grade Cobot Bakery Tray Load and Unload with iRVision, a dual-cobot cell demonstrating the controlled loading and unloading of cookies on bakery trays. With its impressive 1,418 mm of reach, the FANUC CRX-20iA/L Food-Grade Cobot will use 3DV/400 iRVision mounted to its arm to locate and unload cookies from a tray and place them onto a conveyor, simulating a seamless cookie baking operation. A second CRX-20iA/L will then use a bakery tray to catch the cookies coming off the end of the conveyor and then place the now-full trays onto a cart. Or visit FANUCAmerica.com to see all of our automation solutions for the bakery industry, including case studies on muffin de-panning, cake cutting and packing, and waffle stacking | FANUC America is the leading supplier of robotics, CNCs, and ROBOMACHINEs with over 24 million products installed worldwide. We are committed to providing our customers with solutions that help them overcome their manufacturing challenges. From small shops to large assembly operations, manufacturers rely on FANUC automation to improve productivity, increase quality, maximize profits and maintain a competitive edge. FANUC has the largest selection of robot and cobot models with payload capabilities from 0.5 – 2,300 kg. Our robots are easy to use and work in virtually every industry and application. We offer intelligent features such as integrated iRVision®, ROBOGUIDE simulation, and Industrial IoT solutions like Zero Down Time (ZDT), designed to help customers monitor and manage their automation. We also work with schools and industry to develop certified curriculums centered on robotics and automation training, helping prepare students for high-tech careers in advanced manufacturing. In addition, we are dedicated to “Service First”, which offers our customers parts and support for the life of their FANUC products. | FANUC is the global leader in CNCs, robotics, and ROBOMACHINEs with over 40 million products installed worldwide. We are committed to providing automation solutions that help companies achieve their production goals. | FANUC is the world’s leading supplier of automation for manufacturing including CNCs and Motion Control, robotics, and ROBOMACHINE machining centers. | FANUC Profile FANUC is the global leader in CNCs, robotics, and ROBOMACHINEs with over 40 million products installed worldwide. We are committed to providing automation solutions that help companies achieve their production goals. From small shops to large assembly operations, customers rely on FANUC automation to help solve their critical labor shortage, improve productivity, increase profits and maintain a competitive edge. We also work with schools and industry to develop certified curriculums centered on robotics and automation training, helping upskill the current workforce and prepare students for high-tech careers in advanced manufacturing. Dedicated to “Service First”, we offer lifetime product support. With more than 5 million CNCs installed worldwide and over 50 years of experience, FANUC is the world’s leading supplier of intelligent factory automation systems and CNC technology. As the exclusive provider of FANUC CNC and general motion systems in the Americas, FANUC offers comprehensive CNC solutions including control systems, drives and motors as well as products for retrofitting and in-house CNC training. FANUC has the largest selection of standard and collaborative robot models with payload capabilities from 0.5 – 2,300 kg. Our robots are reliable, easy to use and work in virtually every industry and application. We offer intelligent features such as integrated iRVision, ROBOGUIDE simulation, and Industrial IoT solutions like Zero Down Time (ZDT), designed to help customers monitor and manage their automation. In 2023, FANUC announced the production of its one-millionth robot. The FANUC ROBODRILL Plus vertical machining center provides unrivalled quality and precision for milling, drilling and tapping. Available in standard and advanced models, the ROBODRILL Plus offers versatility for a wide range of high-production applications in mold and tool making, jewelry and watch manufacturing, medical technologies, and many other industries. To learn more, visit us at www.fanucamerica.com | FANUC America is a global leader in robotics and automation systems. From food-grade cobots to stainless industrial robots, FANUC offers a wide range of agile packaging and processing solutions built with the highest quality standards. Designed to provide solutions to common industry challenges, including production, supply chain and labor shortages, FANUCâs diverse lineup includes both industrial and collaborative robots. From the flexible CRX cobot series to high-speed SCARA robots, FANUC automation solutions can offer uninterrupted speed, reliability, accuracy and dexterityâall while maintaining food safety. Alongside robots and cobots, technologies like FANUCâs 3DV/400 iRVision vision sensors, iRPickTool line tracking software and AI Box Detection software work to streamline processes, improve efficiency or overcome manufacturing hurdles.Learn more about these solutions and the worldâs first robot controller to offer cyber securityâFANUCâs new R-50iAâat booth 3408 at Pack Expo Las Vegas. For more information, visit www.fanucamerica.com. | FANUC, a global industrial automation leader, supplies advanced technologies to today’s manufacturers—including CNC systems, robotics and ROBOMACHINEs—and has more than 40 million products installed worldwide. FANUC’s innovative solutions and proven reliability help improve productivity, increase profits, solve labor issues and achieve sustainability measures for both small shops and Fortune 500 companies. Offering the largest selection of standard and collaborative robot, or cobot, models with payload capabilities from 0.5 – 2,300 kg, FANUC products are easy to use and work in virtually every industry and application. Intelligent features like integrated iRVision®, ROBOGUIDE simulation, and Industrial IoT solutions like Zero Down Time (ZDT), are available and designed to help customers monitor and manage their automation. Whether manufacturers are seeking pick-and-place or pick-and-pack solutions, palletizing or depalletizing, inspecting or consolidating, FANUC robots and cobots create efficiency in high-volume warehouses and on the manufacturing floor. FANUC America Corporation is a subsidiary of FANUC CORPORATION in Japan. For more information, visit FANUCAmerica.com or learn more about our cobots at CRX.FANUCAmerica.com. | FANUC is the global leader in CNCs, robotics, and ROBOMACHINEs with over 40 million products installed worldwide. We are committed to providing automation solutions that help companies achieve their production goals. From small shops to large assembly operations, customers rely on FANUC automation to help solve their critical labor shortage, improve productivity, increase profits and maintain a competitive edge. We also work with schools and industry to develop certified curriculums centered on robotics and automation training, helping upskill the current workforce and prepare students for high-tech careers in advanced manufacturing. Dedicated to \\”Service First\\”, we offer lifetime product support. With more than 5 million CNCs installed worldwide and over 50 years of experience, FANUC is the world’s leading supplier of intelligent factory automation systems and CNC technology. | FANUC, a global industrial automation leader, supplies advanced technologies to today’s manufacturers—including CNC systems, robotics and ROBOMACHINEs—and has more than 40 million products installed worldwide. FANUC’s innovative solutions and proven reliability help improve productivity, increase profits, solve labor issues and achieve sustainability measures for both small shops and Fortune 500 companies. Offering the largest selection of standard and collaborative robot, or cobot, models with payload capabilities from 0.5 – 2,300 kg, FANUC products are easy to use and work in virtually every industry and application. Intelligent features like integrated iRVision®, ROBOGUIDE simulation, and Industrial IoT solutions like Zero Down Time (ZDT), are available and designed to help customers monitor and manage their automation. Whether picking, packing, palletizing or packaging, FANUC robots and cobots create efficiency on the manufacturing floor. FANUC America Corporation is a subsidiary of FANUC CORPORATION in Japan. For more information, visit FANUCAmerica.com. | FANUC America is a global leader in robotics and automation systems. From food-grade cobots to stainless industrial robots, FANUC offers a wide range of agile packaging and processing solutions built with the highest quality standards. Designed to provide solutions to common industry challenges, including production, supply chain and labor shortages, FANUC’s diverse lineup includes both industrial and collaborative robots. From the flexible CRX cobot series to high-speed SCARA robots, FANUC automation solutions can offer uninterrupted speed, reliability, accuracy and dexterity—all while maintaining food safety. Alongside robots and cobots, technologies like FANUC’s 3DV/400 iRVision vision sensors, iRPickTool line tracking software and AI Box Detection software work to streamline processes, improve efficiency or overcome manufacturing hurdles.Learn more about these solutions and the world’s first robot controller to offer cyber security—FANUC’s new R-50iA—at booth 3408 at Pack Expo Las Vegas. For more information, visit www.fanucamerica.com.