Furniture Production Magazine

  • Positive initial reports from interzum

    Positive initial reports from interzum

    On Thursday (16 May 2013) interzum came to an end with good results. The world's leading trade fair for furniture production and interior finishing recorded a slight increase in visitor numbers compared to 2011 with around 53,000 visitors – including estimates from the last day of the trade fair – from 148 countries.

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  • Modernising home entertainment

    Modernising home entertainment

    Ultimate Arcade Cabinets is a small family-run business that designs and manufactures customisable arcade cabinets for both business and home use. The company shares one of its most recent products, aided by Delcam’s CAD/CAM package – ArtCAM.

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  • Leitz - keeping British Thornton’s tools on track

    Leitz - keeping British Thornton’s tools on track

    Leitz Tooling recently celebrated 30 years in the UK, and, as a leading UK supplier of tooling to British industry, the company has a reputation for high quality, attentive service and reliability.

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  • Blum innovates at Interzum

    Blum innovates at Interzum

    As always, the enormous Blum stand at this year’s international Interzum exhibition in Cologne was jam-packed with visitors and industry professionals. They were not disappointed as a host of new innovations and product advances were unveiled by the industry leaders in fittings.

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  • FIRA way! – 10 questions for association boss

    FIRA way! – 10 questions for association boss

    Phil Reynolds, chief operating officer at the Furniture Industy Research Association (FIRA), talks to Furniture Production about the association’s work in improving sustainability, the impact of globalisation and why furniture testers should be very careful when choosing where to sit.

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  • Furniture hardware – a world overview

    Furniture hardware – a world overview

    According to CSIL’s Mauro Spinelli, the furniture hardware business is showing expansion at a global level.

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  • Shelter In A Day streamlines production with SAi software

    Shelter In A Day streamlines production with SAi software

    The devastation caused by the 7.0MW earthquake of Haiti more than three years ago, killing 300,000, injuring many and leaving an estimated 1m people homesless, led eco-friendly furniture designer Frank Schooley, of Matalcha, Florida to develop the Shelter In A Day concept. SAi’s Enroute versatile CAD/CAM software for machining helped bring this concept to life.

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  • 20 new technical profiles at Ostermann

    20 new technical profiles at Ostermann

    Ostermann has introduced 20 new technical aluminium profiles available in silver anodized (matt), stainless steel anodized and brushed finishes.

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  • LIGNA brims with high-tech innovations and global participation

    LIGNA brims with high-tech innovations and global participation

    The 20th LIGNA came to a close on Friday, May 10, achieving impressive results across the board.

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  • The Crafter – flexibility, consistency and a small footprint

    The Crafter – flexibility, consistency and a small footprint

    Machinery distributor IWM demonstrated a Soukup Window Machining Centre at W12 last year, which garnered considerable interest from visitors. That machine has now found a new home in Westfield, East Sussex, in the workshop of bespoke window and stair manufacturer, Woodbase Joiners.

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