Con-Vey is an industrial equipment manufacturer and supplier of custom, automated machinery and integrated solutions for many industries around the world. Headquartered in Roseburg, Oregon since 1946, their full-service facility of over 120,000 sq. ft. houses 110 skilled employees in technical trades ranging from engineering and programming to machining and fabrication. Con-Vey engineers, fabricates, and assembles complete systems for automated material handling, wood panel processing, packaging, and laminating, including feeders, stackers, and conveyors. Our team also specializes in beam presses, robotics, and PLC control systems as well as services our equipment across locations in nearly 20 countries. Contact Con-Vey today to collaborate on your next innovative solution. | Con-Vey is a comprehensive industrial automation provider based in Roseburg, OR. We engineer and manufacture complete systems and custom integrated solutions for material handling, wood panel processing, packaging, and laminating. At Con-Vey, we take pride in creating the right-fit solution for our customers, whether that is a full-scale new build, a custom integration, or a unique upgrade. Our solutions strike the right balance — time-tested, durable machines with modern technologies like robotics and operator-friendly automation. Our team’s knowledge spans everything from mechanical and electrical engineering to state-of-the-art automation and custom manufacturing methods. It’s our combined expertise that makes us a great partner. Nothing happens in a vacuum at Con-Vey — we share knowledge and work side by side to take our solutions to the next level. When you work with Con-Vey, we take on the responsibility of driving project momentum and making your job easier. We act as project stewards by listening and fully understanding your needs, then transparently guiding each phase of the process from concept through startup and beyond.
Choice Machinery / Ritter / Evans Midwest
Choice Machinery Group manufactures American-made machinery brands and provides custom machinery and automation solutions for a variety of industries. Headquartered in Holland, MI USA, Choice Machinery is proud to manufacture the well-known woodworking machinery brands of Ritter Machinery, Evans Machinery and Midwest Automation, the last two have merged under the new title of Evans Midwest. The Choice team delivers high-quality, dependable, cutting-edge machinery and has a long history of serving the woodworking industry. Please contact us today and allow us to help you with your future machinery needs! Choice Machinery Group is a veteran owned company. Since 1956 and 1959 respectively, Evans Machinery and Midwest Automation have been trusted names in the fields of countertop production and panel laminating equipment to customers worldwide. Our years of experience serving the laminating community have given us a unique understanding of the needs and challenges that our customers face. This allows us to respond with heavy duty, automated solutions at prices that any shop can afford. Our experienced team has worked tirelessly to build on the foundation that has been developed over the past 40 years with the Evans and Midwest brands. Evans Midwest is proud to say that all our machines are engineered and built in the United States for distribution worldwide. For more information on our machines, capabilities, and prices please contact your local distributors. A complete list of our distributors can be found online at www.evansmidwest.com/distributors. For over 40 years, Ritter Machinery has been a premier manufacturer of American-made industrial woodworking machinery. Ritter’s signature reputation is for heavy-duty, ruggedly built and user-friendly machinery, backed by excellent customer service. Ritter boasts a robust line of clamping tables, assembly tables, drilling and boring machines and sanding equipment. Today, Ritter is a recognized name in the worldwide woodworking industry and is one of America’s leading woodworking machinery manufacturers. Ritter has a long history of serving the woodworking industry and is committed to excellence. For more information on our machines, capabilities, and prices please contact your local distributors. A complete list of our distributors can be found online at www.rittermachinerycompany.com/ritter-distributors/.
Charles G. G. Schmidt & Company, Inc.
Charles G. G. Schmidt & Company is pleased to announce the celebration of their 96th anniversary in the manufacturing and distribution of woodworking tools and woodworking machinery. Started in downtown New York City in 1926, the Schmidt Company sells standard tooling for shapers, moulders, tenoners, saws, CNC routers, haunchers and planers. They can also manufacture custom tools to your specifications in their state of the art facility in Montvale New Jersey. Using the latest CNC equipment to produce the tools, woodworking shops both small and larger rely on them to supply quality tools when needed throughout the United States and surrounding countries. Cabinet and door companies, custom wood working companies, moulding manufacturers, architectural woodworkers, home builders, flooring manufactures and store fixture companies are some of the companies that use their services. Insert panel raising cutters, stile and rail sets, and profiling heads designed to be used on shapers are the newest additions to Charles G. G. Schmidt’s product line. Moulder heads, including HSK heads are available from stock. Our insert line of surfacing heads can now be made up to 13 long. We also offer a extensive line of solid carbide spiral router bits and standard router bits. Our accessories include spacer sets, bushings, measuring tools for cabinet hardware installation and planer knife setting. We also offer a sharpening and tool reconditioning service for the tools we sell. A new addition to our product line is Dispozablade and Esta Knife products. Disposable planer and jointer knives. We are the now excluisive distributor of these German made products for North America
Black Bros. Co.
Since 1882, Black Bros. has been synonymous with superior machinery. Legendary for high production and unmatched durability, Black Bros. Co. laminating and roll coating equipment and systems have earned a global reputation as the most trusted technology available for a wide array of applications. Much more than an elite American manufacturer, Black Bros. also has a strong history of innovative in-house engineering, expert onsite testing and process development, and unparalleled customer support before, during and after the sale. Whether you company is just starting out or looking to grow, Black Bros. will customize the perfect single machine or integrated system to make the job safe, simple, and successful. | Founded in 1882, Black Bros. Co. is a world-renown manufacturer of roll coating and laminating equipment. Black Bros.’ exceptionally-durable and high-yielding products include a wide array of adhesive spreaders, roll coaters, rotary and platen presses, as well as material handling equipment. Big or small, Black Bros. can provide single machines or integrated lines of equipment. Black Bros. also boasts a long history of innovative engineering which can create a customized solution to your unique application. Many times ideas are tested or proved out in our state-of-the-art laboratory, which allows customers to use their products with our machinery before purchasing. Industries that use Black Bros. equipment include furniture, door and window, cabinets, laminated panels, kitchen and bath, closets, hardwood flooring, among many others. And with Black Bros., our dedication to you does not end with the sale. We pride ourselves in having exceptional customer service, including technicians available to visit your workplace to perform setup, onsite maintenance, or provide educational seminars for your production team. Better yet, we are a Made In U.S.A. company with excellent parts availability, so your downtime will be nonexistent. Contact your regional salesman today, and demand Black Bros. experience, expertise, and excellence with your next laminating project.
Biele S.A.U.
Biele is a European company providing state-of-the art turnkey projects for several domains related to the Woodworking Industry including their own manufactured hydraulic presses. Biele has consolidated its presence in North America, installing manufacturing lines for leading companies in various sectors and increasing the work team and capacity of its subsidiary Biele USA in Atlanta (Georgia), opened in 2.015. Biele is organized for developing, for manufacturing, for installing and for commissioning at the customer’s site production lines with a high level of technical complexity, but always from a customized and innovative perspective. For Panel manufacturers, Biele will show in IWF the last innovations related to the pressing operations for plywood, HPL and EIR technology. In Plywood, Biele’s main expertise starts after the drying operation up to the final packaging of the line, including lay-up lines, pre-press and multiopening presses, trimming and packaging. Also before the dryer, Dewatering Presses have been proved as a way of big saves in energy consumption as the drying time is minimized. For Furniture manufacturers, Biele will show last generation lines focused in the High Speed Feeding and Stacking systems (up to 30 cycles/min), Fully automatic Outsorting and Insorting Systems, and Fully Automated Packing Lines organized in a modular way in order to fit with the customer’s requirements as they can be installed in different stages. Regarding Door industry, Biele manufactures Turnkey Complete Lines, both for Residential doors and Architectural Doors. Biele is flexible to customer’s needs, in a way that the projects can be focused to both high production rates with big batch sizes and smaller production rates where every door can be different from the next one (batch size 1). In the last years Biele has become an expert in Complete Turnkey Press Lines for manufacturing Lightboard Panels using different type of glues for the bonding operation, as i.e.: PVAC and PUR. Besides, Biele by means of its Building Division, has been developing and producing turnkey lines for companies processing materials like gypsum, fiber cement, mineral fiber and fiber glass, starting from the motherboard, up to the final stacking, boxing and palletizing, with high output and flexible performance, according to customers’ needs. Also, using 4.0 Industry concepts Biele provides to the customer a higher control of the processes by means of a bigger volume of processed information. These technologies can also be adapted to each customer’s expectations and requirements.
Appalachian Hardwood Manufacturers, Inc.
Appalachian Hardwood Manufacturers, Inc. is a regional association of hardwood lumber manufacturers and distributors from the 12-state region. AHMI promotes the logs, lumber and products from the sustainably grown and legally harvested forest. The association offers Certified Appalachian Legal and Sustainable third-party audited system and a secondary verification so customers are assured of compliance with standards. The Appalachian forest produces the finest temperate hardwoods grown anywhere in the world and are known for machining characteristics, excellent color and beauty, and last value. Species includes Oaks, Maples, Hickory, Cherry, Walnut, Ash, Basswood, Beech, and Birch. Please visit www.appalachianhardwood.org for details and listings of the companies that can provide you with this outstanding resource.