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M

y brothers and I had a great upbringing. Our parents were attentive and authoritative without being authoritarian, if that makes any sense. For example, they taught us not to call people idiots, and they explained that it could hurt their feelings.

Then I went to school.

There, I discovered that words mean things, and that sometimes a specific word is called for. That led to my adopting one of my favourite old sayKerry Knudsen ings, this one from ancient China: “The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their right names.”

So we’re going to talk about idiots. Anything less would be dishonest.

The most recent case of international idiocy, at least as of presstime, is the recent debacle conducted by Gillette.

You can look it up on the internet. The marketing geniuses at Procter and Gamble decided to portray men, a main portion of their market, as buffoons infected with a verbal construct we have been introduced to as “toxic masculinity.”

Toxic masculinity had no meaning until a few years ago.

None. Toxic and masculine were two common adjectives, floating around in space, just waiting for people in search of a good word to use as a descriptor. And some idiot decided to conjoin the two, call it a noun, and back-form its definition to border on criminality.

This is, I have to say, idiotic. That is not name-calling.

It is a diagnosis. I suggest there is no such thing as toxic masculinity and that its inventor is an idiot.

I don’t want to overreach and say that the architect of toxic masculinity is a feminist. However, I once knew a feminist that was fond of talking about men, and she spoke very similarly to somebody that would come up with the idea of toxic masculinity. At the time, she simply identified men as “gamey.” Being a man, I took the observation to heart, assuming it was directed, indirectly, at me, and I have used scented soap and deodorant religiously since.

I have also intermittently been a shaver. Coincidentally, Gillette and I parted company over a year ago on a sort-of unrelated issue. They tried to start selling me razor blade refills for $35 for five. Seven bucks apiece for

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razor blades! So I started buying from the Dollar Shave Club (www.dollarshaveclub.ca). Their top-rung blades are $9.50 for four, and they are delivered to my house.

To be clear, I started this column when the Gillette commercial launched, but before the massive public backlash (and subsequent endorsements of Dollar Shave Club by media personalities), and I was going to predict the effect, but it has already happened. It is a public-relations debacle of the very first order. In fact, I predict that when the next generation of public relations books are published, this one will rate as one of the all-time most idiotic PR stunts ever envisioned. It may even beat Ford and the Pinto travesty.

Gillette will be famous because some marketing idiot decided to use a social slang fad (toxic masculinity) to brand a product, missing the fact that the currency of the slang fad was with a group that is antagonistic to the target market.

The same thing is happening with the words “racism,” “homophobia” and dozens of others. Racism is not listed in my 1971 printing of the Oxford English Dictionary.

That means it’s a made-up word with a back-formed definition to border on criminality. Same with homophobia.

Taken in its parts, homophobia means fear of mankind. It does not mean hatred of anybody.

In fact, the whole idea of “hate speech” is an idiocy.

Speech cannot hate. Speech was so revered in antiquity as to be given a special privilege in every free society. In fact, freedom of speech is what defines freedom. Therefore, to hate speech is to hate freedom. And these idiots want to define hundreds of words into weapons to be feared.

And they backfire, have backfired and will backfire.

Finally, it will come to a head when somebody whose life has been trashed files and wins a comprehensive defamation suit.

My first job was on a diversified farm, and one of my first tasks was to neuter boars. This was not done recreationally. Boars develop a scent and flavour called “boar taint” that makes them unsuitable for human consumption, so they get castrated.

The thing is, the boar taint is not toxic, and boars are not unsuitable because they are toxic until castrated.

They are just gamey.

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OUTSMART WOOD SHOP INJURY Progressive owners install systems to reduce strain on their top resource: Employees

MUSCULOSKELETAL DISORDERS (MSDs), such as chronic back pain or shoulder problems, often take time to develop. Forceful exertion, awkward positions, handarm and whole-body vibration, contact stress, and repetitive tasks can add up over time to produce an MSD. This statement comes courtesy of an Ontario Infrastructure Health and Safety Association (IHSA) pamphlet on musculoskeletal hazards and controls.

Ergonomics experts and wood industry veterans both agree that MSDs contribute to shortened careers, time lost and poorer quality of life in general.

According to ergonomist Peter Vi at the IHSA, the permanent risk factors for MSD are awkward posture,

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high forces and repetition, as well as other such secondary risk factors as constant contact stress. “Whenever you are moving away from the natural posture it’s considered the awkward posture — bending, kneeling, squatting, for example — rather than the natural standing posture.

“On top of that if you are lifting heavy items such as anything more than 30 to 50 pounds,” says Vi, “that also increases the risk of injuries. Because the higher the weight, the more forces that our muscles need to work in order to counteract those forces that we need to actually do the work.”

The best way to control and reduce those kinds of

risk factors is by reducing the repetition or the severity of the awkward posture and the muscular stress of those high forces. Controls could mean being able to take jobs and perform tasks that are away from the floor. “So, you could rotate between working on the floor versus other tasks,” says Vi. “You can also use a variety of mechanical assistance, such as carts or dollies.”

MATERIAL HANDLING PRIORITY GCW Kitchens and Cabinetry of St. Thomas, Ont., with over 100 staff, recognizes the need to take a “load off” when it comes to handling materials. According to John Van Houwelingen, purchasing manager and steering chairman of the joint health and safety committee at GCW, notes that his company has carefully studied the day-to-day lifting component of its employees’ workflow on the shop floor and in the field.

“We have done a lot of work especially since we moved from our old building about four years ago,” says Van Houwelingen. “Ever since that time we have implemented more and more strategies here to help with repetitive strain injuries. Anything to do with heavy lifting, awkward lifting.” Van Houwelingen brings 15 years of health and safety experience at Magna, the automotive parts giant, where he was a training coordinator.

GCW has instituted a number of practices, machinery and systems to reduce the strain of handling materials repeatedly, from sheet goods to the finished cabinet assemblies.

Don Patten, ergonomics specialist, technical services, Workplace Safety and Prevention Services (WSPS) in Ontario, notes that the fitness of the worker plays a part in avoiding MSDs but doesn’t preclude risk of injury.

“When you do (a task) continuously for a long period of time it doesn’t matter what shape you are in,” says Patten. “You experience fatigue and discomfort. We want our ‘work athletes’ to be performing at their peak and be in shape and take care of their bodies.

“In some cases, the longer that you do the work in a job you kind of become work-hardened in a way. You are building the muscles and the flexibility based on the actual doing of the work. At the same time if the work exceeds what we are able to do as people from a strength perspective that is when the injury occurs.”

Patten cautions against having the bigger and stronger employee lifting more on the job. “Our spines can only take so much compressible force or twisting. We want to make sure that although we encourage our employees to be healthy, we also want to ensure that we are looking at the ways in which we are doing our work.

“And how the work is designed so that we can reduce some of these MSDs.” At GCW, the knowledge that materials have to be handled over and over again led it to create workstations that are all at waist height. “We don’t have anybody putting stuff down on the floor and working bent over,” says Van Houwelingen. He remembers how much, at the old shop location, the amount of “manhandling” of the sheet goods that was necessary.

“Here we rarely have to lift a full sheet by hand on anything,” explains Houwelingen. “We have the storage retrieval system which picks it up with a vacuum system up and over the fence and puts it down in a location based on where we tell it in the computer. The guys at the CNC can call the storage retrieval system via computer and have it lift onto their conveyor. So no more manhandling and putting it on the CNC bed.”

The conveyor systems put in place at GCW play an important part in reducing the need for staff to handle materials.

“We used to take everything off by hand off of the CNC bed and put each individual part and lift it off of there and put it on a cart. Now we stack them up on a conveyor and we can conveyor everything from one end all the way to the other end before people actually have to lift and put them on a work bench and assemble them.”

EDGEBANDER EFFICIENCY The company has now reduced a number of manhandling chores using its conveyor system with all of the rollers, such as moving everything from its beam saw CNC over to an edge bander with a return system. “Part of the extra workload on an edge bander,” says Van Houwelingen, “involves the operator putting the part on the one end and having to walk all the way to the other end and catch it so it doesn’t fall off.”

With the return system on the edge bander, the operator can load up from one end and it will come out the other end and return to him and back to his work station.

“It saves him a ton of walking back and forth. Of course, he doesn’t have to lift the parts off a cart, onto the edge bander and back onto a cart again. He just keeps it on a conveyor and stacks it up and rolls it over on the conveyor.”

GCW has just purchased a new edge bander and will be installing a return system on it as well, according to Van Houwelingen. “We have saved a lot of repetitive walking back and forth. If you think about it, you are doing twenty steps for every part. When you do 1,000 parts every day that is putting 10,000 steps on your Fitbit pretty quick!”

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CONTROL MUSCULOSKELETAL HAZARDS The Ontario IHSA offers these recommendations in its Homebuilding: flooring pamphlet handout.

Use handling equipment when possible. The most effective intervention to control the risk of developing an MSD is to eliminate or reduce the frequency of lifting, carrying, pushing, and pulling.

Don’t lift a load from the floor. Avoid this procedure by storing objects above standing knuckle height and below standing shoulder height.

Avoid working on the floor. Constantly working on the floor can result in injuries to your back, hips, and knees because it usually requires kneeling and bending your back forward.

Minimize work above your shoulder. Muscle strength is reduced because most of the work is performed by your shoulders and arms instead of by the bigger muscles in your back and legs. Shoulder and arm muscles fatigue more quickly because of reduced blood flow. And lifting or removing an object from a high shelf can be dangerous because you could drop the object.

Move smaller weights often or get help. Smaller weights put less stress on your back than larger weights, even if the frequency of lifting is increased.

Consider exercise programs. They help to prevent MSDs and promote general good health.

Download this pamphlet at https://bit.ly/2Exd2BX or go to www.ihsa.ca/msd for more information.

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nents become assembled, is the creation of a lot of the awkward parts, according to Van Houwelingen. “A cabinet assembly requires two people to lift it on to a rolling table, so you are not carrying it from one station to the next. We have a number of those wooden tables with the wheels on them also at various heights actually depending on how big the piece of cabinetry is.

“For instance, a big (kitchen) island you don’t want to put that on a waist high rolling table. You put it on a low table otherwise you would be reaching way above your head to work on it.”

GCW has various types of rolling tables that fit the different products to work on and to roll them through the shop. “Once the cabinets are all built, we have anywhere from 25 to 40 cabinets,” says Van Houwelingen. “Our old practice was to lift them off the clamp and put them on the floor. Stack them up three or four high. Put them in a place then the shipping guys would unstack them one by one.”

CONVEYOR TO SKID The company has created a conveyor system that transports the cabinets after they are built. The cabinets slide down on a conveyor system onto a wrapping station where skids are at the same height. “When the cabinet is done,” says Van Houwelingen, “and all wrapped up, we just slide it on to a 4 by 8 skid — so no lifting there.

“Now we can move the whole skid of eight to 10 cabinets with the pump cart all the way to the shipping area.”

The process saves a lot of wear and tear on both the handlers and the cabinets, adding quality control to the process. “When you get to the shipping truck at the loading dock, they do have to lift them one by one into the truck.”

But when a repetitive strain injury does occur, employers should think about accommodations for the staff member, according to Patten. “In some cases, the employee needs to be accommodated at work in order to ensure that those muscles or injured areas are given time to heal.”

There are still opportunities for improvement, Van Houwelingen believes, some of which involve capital expenditure. One alternative would be to buy a much bigger truck that would accommodate much bigger skids, but company isn’t there yet. GCW has two trucks that are delivering kitchen cabinets to job sites all of the time, he says.

“Considering where we were four years ago, we have come leaps and bounds in handling our material,” adds Van Houwelingen.

“There were two practical purposes. One was to save our employees a lot of repetitive strain injuries and a lot of extra lifting. A lot of it was to save our product as well.”

Overall, for GCW, the effort seems to be paying off in both departments.

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The Educational Foundation of the Woodworking Machinery Industry Association of Fairfax, Va., awarded $28,000 US in scholarships to 22 high school seniors and college students in 2018 to further their woodworking education. To date, the Foundation has provided over $400,000 US to assist talented students with furthering their educational and career goals.

Winners last year included Sarah three Canadians Fortin-Pelletier — Roger Cortes of Longueuil, Que., Sarah Fortin-Pelletier of La Salle, Que., and Kate Montgomery, Kanata, Ont. Cortes is

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Fortin-Pelletier of La Salle, Que., is also a student at ENME. Following a technical diploma in architecture and one-year certificate in Administration, she changed her field of studies to Woodworking after she participated in a “Student for a Day” event where she took a class in woodworking. Kate Montgomery is a student at Carleton University in Ottawa, Ont., and is pursuing a Bachelor of Engineering in Architectural Conservation and Sustainability Engineering.

She earlier completed a Woodworking Technician diploma at Conestoga College in Kitchener, Ont.

Weinig Holzher Canada announces B.C. change

Weinig Holz-Her Canada of Laval, Que., has announced it is now providing all Weinig machinery related sales assistance directly in British Columbia. To support this commitment, the company has assigned two dedicated wood-processing specialists, Matthias Hiebert and Ken Ellston to B.C. on a full-time basis.

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a student at École Nationale du Meuble et de L’Ébénisterie (ENME) in Victoriaville, Que. Cortes was working at the Montreal Harbor for more than eight years when health issues forced him to change careers.

Following this decision, he found a new job on a cabinet assembly line and as a sales rep for a moulding company. These new opportunities led the way for Roger to register at ENME in 2017 and start a three-year program in woodworking. His career goal is to start his own business in custom furniture-making. Sarah

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This organizational change will also see Mooresville, N.C.-based Weinig USA provide direct support for parts, tooling, and service in the province.

Weinig USA has provided service in Canada for over 30 years and will continue to be a direct link for all after-market needs. Both Weinig Canada and Weinig USA believe this new relationship with customers in B.C. will enhance the superior sales and

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service the Weinig Group is known for. Sales and service of the Holz-Her brand remains unchanged.

NKBA announces 2019 board of directors

The National Kitchen & Bath Association (NKBA) of Hackettstown, N.J., has set its board of directors for 2019. The slate of nine volunteers for the North American association includes seven returning directors and two new members. The NKBA which will be led by a new chairman, Steve Joseph, c.e.o. and co-founder of Los Angeles, Steve Joseph Calif.-based Smart Home Products, who has served on the board for three years and was secretary/treasurer last year. According to Joseph, the NKBA’s new online certification programs with video training have been well-received by members and are helping more designers become certified. The association also presents the KBIS show at Design & Construction Week in Las Vegas. Bill Darcy is the NKBA c.e.o.

Joining Joseph and Darcy as officers for 2019 are Emilee Chappell, director of marketing for Toto Americas, and Allison Lowrie, chief marketing officer for Angi Homeservices, parent of Angie’s List and Home Advisor, who will start her second year on the board and assume the role of Secretary/Treasurer. Rounding out the board are returning members Lorenzo Marquez, NKBA’s former two-term chairman and president of Spring Valley, Tex.-based Marqet Group; independent Neil Bailey; Michael Mahan, vice president of strategic marketing and category & offer management for the Schneider Michael Mahan Electric North

American Final Distribution Line of Business in Franklin, Tenn., and Steve Petock, senior vice president of business development for Ferguson

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China wood flooring patents monitored

An alliance for patent protection for wood and other floor locking sys-

tems has been established in Beijing, China, by the China National Forest Products Industry Association (CNFPIA) after approval by the State Forestry and Grassland Administration and the National Intellectual Property Administration (CNIPA). As a result of patent protection for floor-locking systems, Chinese enterprises have to pay patent fees to commercial companies which have patent protection. The Patent Protection Alliance is aimed at respecting and protecting intellectual property rights, safeguarding the legitimate rights and interests of Chinese flooring enterprises, promoting the healthy and sustainable development of China’s flooring industry and creating fair competition.

The main work of the alliance will be to assess the legal status of patent applications and authorizations at home and abroad and monitor development trends to avoid patent infringement risks. Alliance experts will analyze the patent and the technology applied to judge whether the flooring

products are breaking patent rules and provide early warnings to Chinese companies.

New name for Pinnacle

Pinnacle Renewable Holdings of Prince George, B.C., has changed its name to that of its subsidiary, Pinnacle Renewable Energy. Pinnacle is an industrial wood pellet manufacturer and distributor and the third largest producer in the world. The company produces sustainable fuel for renewable electricity generation in the form of industrial wood pellets.

Elias launches online ordering platform

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SawStop announces management changes

Tualatin, Ore.-based SawStop has announced key management changes.

Company co-founder and president Stephen Gass, the inventor of SawStop’s contact detection technology, will step down from his role as president. Gass will take on a new role as vice president of Innovation, focusing his efforts on developing future products for the company. Matt Howard, SawStop’s current vice president of marketing, will take on the position of company c.e.o.

Howard is a nine-year Matt Howard SawStop veteran with a long career in sales and marketing for manufacturers. In addition, Patric Clewing will become the company’s chief financial officer. Clewing was SawStop’s vice president of finance.

IKEA Canada launches in-home service

IKEA Canada of Burlington, Ont., has launched TaskRabbit in-home assembly and mounting service in select markets. The on-demand service is now available in-store and online in the Greater Toronto Area, with plans to roll-out to the Vancouver market in mid-November and the Montreal area in spring of 2019. The new IKEA

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service offer allows customers to have products assembled in-home and at their convenience — as early as the next day after purchase. Assembly services are priced by flat rate per type of furniture, starting at $32.

Design award launched by Interzum

The international furniture supplier industry is invited to face global comparison by registering for the interzum award: intelligent material and design 2019 by March 8. Exhibitors at Interzum in Cologne, Germany – which this year celebrates its 60th anniversary – can enter their products, further developments and innovations into the competition. The best designs from the sector will be crowned by a panel of expert judges – with “Tiny Spaces” among the categories for the first time. Participation in the Interzum award 2019 is free of charge. For further information and to register, visit www.interzumaward.de. From May 21 to 24, 2019, more than 1,800 exhibitors from all over the world will present their innovations at the largest international industry event.

Broadview to acquire Formica Group

Broadview Holding B.V. has reached an agreement with Auckland, N.Z.based Fletcher Building Holdings to acquire the Formica Group of Cincinnati, Ohio, for $840 million US, on a cash free and debt free basis. According to Fletcher Building c.e.o. Ross Taylor, the divestment of Formica completes its strategy to exit non-core businesses having already Ross Taylor completed the sale of Roof Tile

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Group in November 2018 and to refocus Fletcher Building’s capital and capability with building products and distribution at its core. Since 1913, Formica has been inextricably linked to the invention of the original highpressure laminate. The company is a provider of branded, designed surfacing solutions. Broadview is an industrial holding company with a focus on materials technology and energy.

Broadview of ’s-Hertogenbosch, the Netherlands, pursues long-term growth and value creation through active support of its operating companies and efficient capital allocation, it says.

Egger starts construction of wood-based materials plant

Egger of St. Johann, Austria, has started construction work on its new wood-based materials plant in Lexington, N.C., with completion scheduled for spring 2019. There will be space for approximately 80 administrative employees. The state-of-the-art chipboard plant with lamination capacities is scheduled to go on stream by the end of 2020. This first project phase involves an investment volume of around €260 million and will create 400 direct jobs within the next 6 years. The site is said to play a decisive role in Egger’s growing presence in the North American market for wood-based materials.

Masonite’s Lynch to retire

Masonite International has announced that Fred Lynch plans to retire as president and c.e.o. by the end of the second quarter of 2019. Lynch also plans to leave the company’s

board of directors in connection with his retirement. As part of Masonite’s succession planning, the board of directors has Fred Lynch initiated a process to identify a successor to Lynch, which will consider both internal and external candidates. Lynch is expected to remain in his current positions until the appointment of his successor.

He joined Masonite as president in July 2006 and was named c.e.o. in May 2007. Masonite is a designer and manufacturer of interior and exterior doors for the residential new construction; the residential repair, renovation and remodeling, as well as the non-residential building construction markets.

U.S. investors buy nine Ontario seniors’ residences

Two U.S.-based investors have created a partnership to buy nine Ontario seniors’ housing communities in small or mid-sized markets and create a new platform to be known as Oxford Living LLC. Oxford Living says it plans to invest to enhance and upgrade the properties, including “significant expansions” at several of the sites. According to Real Estate News Exchange, the venture is jointly owned by Chicago-based Oxford Capital LLC and New Yorkbased insurance and investment firm Starr Insurance Companies.

The companies have invested about $100 million US to purchase the nine properties, which comprise 648 suites and are located John Rutledge across northern,

central and southwestern Ontario.

In a statement, John Rutledge, the founder, president and c.e.o. of Oxford Capital Group and CEO of the new affiliate, said “consolidating mid-market retirement communities in secondary Ontario markets is an ideal launching pad for Oxford Living.”

Djurberg named director general of FSC International

Hans Djurberg, who is responsible for sustainability issues in the SCA Forestry business area in Sweden, will be new chairman of the Hans Djurberg Forest Stewardship Council International (FSC) based in Bonn, Germany. Djurberg has been on the board of FSC International since 2013. The Forest Stewardship Council is an international member orga-

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Roseburg to acquire Arkansas MDF plant

Springfield, Ore.-based Roseburg Forest Products has reached an agreement in principle with PotlatchDeltic of Spokane, Wash., to purchase the assets of its subsidiary Del-Tin Fiber, including its medium density fiberboard (MDF) plant located in El Dorado, Ark. The parties expect the sale to close in the first quarter of 2019 after required regulatory approval. Upon closing, the acquisition will be Roseburg’s third MDF plant purchase in three years.

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MDF in eastern Ontario, Canada, in early 2018, and an MDF plant in Medford, Ore., in 2015.

Roseburg has also announced that Mike Reardon has been named director of Industrial Products Manufacturing.

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Enviva to expand wood pellet plant

Bethesda, Md.-based Enviva Partners will invest at least $75.7 million US to expand its operation in Southampton, Va. In addition to increasing wood pellet production by a third to approximately 750 thousand metric tons per year (MTPY), the expansion will allow for the processing of sustainably sourced pine at the existing facility, significantly augmenting the company’s usage of raw material from Virginia forests. Enviva owns and operates six manufacturing plants across the southeastern U.S., with a combined production capacity of over three million metric tons of pellets per year.

Design WOOD Marketers do home-made one better

Artisanal I

t has become pretty hard to reflect on marketing without tripping over the word artisanal. We have artisanal beer, artisanal bread and artisanal cheese, to name just a few of the things to which this superlative is applied. We have artisanal banking, artisanal realPaul Epp estate brokers and I’ve even come across a reference to an artisanal escort. I presume that the latter is gluten-free as well.

An artisan is a skilled worker that makes things by hand. The produce of an artisan may be described as artisanal, and traditionally, this term has been used primarily to describe food or drink. Now it is used much more broadly. In all cases, the implication is that the work is done essentially by hand, with the exercise of esoteric skill and the production is in small quantities. There will likely be little reliance on machinery, but this depends on the marketing honesty of those involved.

When I was younger, the descriptor of choice was craft, which is a related word. Good things were crafted, by craftsmen, of both genders, in small quantities, without much use of machines.

But the word craft has always suffered from some tricky associations, and not just that bad people were

sometimes crafty or that crafty people are thought of as bad. The term begs a distinction between handmade, which may be excellent and home-made, which may not be. Anyone can make an assortment of things and the activity may be therapeutic, at the very least. But some people are good at making things, possibly because they have studied how to or worked long and hard to attain a technical and aesthetic proficiency.

How do we differentiate the works of artist/makers from the happy dabblers? What about the exceptionally gifted amateurs? Perhaps the word artisanal does the trick.

Another related descriptor is the term Mennonite Furniture. It has always struck me as tenuous that a proscription against infant baptism would necessarily make them better wood workers. But I imagine that this value-by-association has more to do with the myth that Mennonites eschew technology and therefore their furniture is made-by-hand, or artisanal, making it somehow better.

Many things are disallowed by Mennonites but making money is not one of them. Even artisans are practical.

A critical distinction here is between things made by hand and those made by machine. The use of the word artisan implies that hand-made is superior. But is it?

We live in a world where most of what we encounter is the product of our industrialized culture. We can afford to drive automobiles that achieve a standard of luxury that was unimaginable, not that long ago, due to

the complicated use of machines and advanced technology. I doubt that many of us want to swap our Audis for buggies. Computers are another miracle of machine-based achievement. There are so many that the hand-made is what is unusual.

Some things will benefit from the intense and personal care that a craft-based approach will yield.

Bread is one and I’ll accept that cheese is another. Ditto for beer. But even more things will not.

What about wooden furniture?

Wood is a natural material both enhanced and plagued by its diversity and complicated character. When used in its natural state, with sensitive consideration of its properties and proclivities, it is probably best done using a craft-based approach.

But even here, wood workers will welcome the use of jointers, planers, shapers, and other heavy machinery especially if they have ever had the chore of flattening and edging wood by hand, and their customers will endorse their efficiencies. Most woodwork now relies on the use of premanufactured panels that eliminate a lot of the problems and challenges associated with woodwork, and even the need for the traditional skills.

Having spent a lot of my working life making things by hand, I have a deep appreciation for what this approach can yield. I like artisanal bread and cheese and beer. And artisanal wooden furniture. But I’m a bit amused at how the marketers have latched on to this term. They are likely smarter than I am and maybe I ought to join them. Would you believe that I’m an artisanal column-writer? That will be on my next business card.

Paul Epp is professor emeritus at OCAD University, and former chair of its Industrial Design department.

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Profile: Ferndale Trim and Doors, Barrie, Ont.

Something for everybody Flexibility for customers, design challenge for owners, opportunity for special-skills employees, all at Ferndale

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ustom machinery can provide a wood shop the ability to respond to market needs when there’s no one else around with the same capability.

For Ferndale Trim and Doors in Barrie, Ont., its equipment offers local new home builders, general contractors and renovators greater flexibility to fulfil orders with wider jambs and casings than its competition. The company has featured inhouse design consultations in model homes throughout Southern Ontario, a service available to all clients.

The organization, now at close to 50 employees, was originally an in-

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stallation company purchasing from other suppliers. Due to the lack of competition in the supply end of the business in the area, there was a need to improve the quality of the product, timely delivery and service.

Co-owners and spouses Diane and Ken Frederick have built their company gradually over time, to the point where in late 2018 it consolidated two neighbouring operations into one 12,000 square foot facility. Besides trim and door work, the company also offers custom cabinetry designed by Diane, the woodworker of the two, who grew up close to sawdust.

“My father was the founder of Sia

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Canada JJS Abrasifs (in Quebec).

He and a friend imported sandpaper from Switzerland. I started in the sandpaper industry as a salesperson for my Dad in 1991.”

Diane remembers the first time she walked into a woodworking shop.

“It was the smell that got me, and I just fell in love with wood.”

The experience triggered her creative side, she says, “to see a piece of wood turn into a beautiful piece of furniture through people’s talents and creativity.”

Once she started to work with wood, there was no turning back. “I think the peak of my interest came when router

Doors galore: Ferndale offers local new home builders, general contractors and renovators greater flexibility to fulfil orders.

Attention to detail: Jordan’s (below) position on the higher end of the autism spectrum comes with a gift for quality control.

tables started coming out — I had to have one! Then I started working and started building furniture.”

While doing construction on the side, Diane built cabinetry and furniture, but found it was not a stable job, so she continued on in sales, moving into fasteners from sandpaper.

“When we had our children, I had to stop being on the road,” Diane says. “Then one of my clients said, ‘I can open up a tool shop for you.’ We moved to Barrie and I was a manager for the tool shop.”

“Then at the time my husband quit his job and came to work with us. After about a year and a half again I migrated to my biggest customer and it was for Ferndale Trim and Doors.”

According to Ken, his job was on a mobile truck selling tools and nails to mostly framers, as well as some interior carpenters. “That grew and we had the need for a store,” he says.

“The man in Ferndale had space and he wanted to start a retail outlet for the trim and doors. We came to an agreement where I would sell his trim and doors for him and also create a retail space for me. We kind of worked together in the smallest part of Ferndale Trim and Doors.

“He was ready to get out and we were ready to buy it. The opportunity was there.”

Diane went to work at Ferndale

initially to start the storefront, but two months later became operations manager then general manager two years later. Another two years after that the Fredericks bought the owners out and became full time owners of Ferndale Trim and Doors in 2009.

But running Ferndale meant not just doing trim, doors and millwork.

“We were also a small cabinet shop and initially we were not going to continue that part of the business,” Diane says. “It was my playroom — I would be in there every Saturday building the mantles and all of the stuff for the week.

“Then we had to start hiring cabinetmakers because I had no more life.”

The “other” side of the business kept growing, too, with builders and customers who would ask, “could you do this?”

Diane would say that she could build the cabinets and design something more specific or unique to a project.

“Next thing you know all of our work is word of mouth for the cabinet division,” Diane says. “It is people I have done something for and then doing something for their friend, their

lawyer, neighbour or banker. I design most of what we do. I can probably count on my two hands what has been designed by somebody else in the last 10 years on the cabinet side.”

Diane is clear that the woodworking shop has always been her passion. “But I can’t have a business that feeds 50 peoples’ families by just my passion!”

The trim and doors are the company’s bread and butter, Diane and Ken agree. It also feeds Diane’s passion while providing a huge source of leads and contacts for the woodworking shop. Having two operations under one roof provides a great balance, too.

“When one is a little bit slow, the other side magically picks up and vice versa,” says Diane. “The fact that we are in the house doing the trim makes it is easy to add millwork and to say, ‘what about a built-in on this www.woodindustry.ca

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Specialized machinery at Ferndale sets the company apart from the competition when it comes to wider door jambs and casings.

side? What about a beautiful mantle?

What about a bookcase or a wet bar down here?’”

They have found having the two businesses simplifies scheduling for customers. “That is how our growth and our success has been,” Diane says. “It is an added bonus for a lot of builders. They don’t have to try to source from elsewhere — we are already there.”

The people that work at Ferndale come from different backgrounds and have different strengths. On the

production side of the trim and doors in the facility, a number on staff who started with the basics are now fullyfledged installers and cabinetmakers.

“Sometimes it’s just a guy who started out on a machine and we saw potential,” says Diane. “I find that it’s great for us to find talent, where we can say he’s got more of an eye and a creative sense.

“As much as we do need people who are more production-focused and doing the same thing over and over again, we can very easily see the ones that need the creative side.

They need variety because they have talent.”

Ferndale has certainly benefit-

ted from having access to that talent pool. “Most of my installers that are with us started out either on the door machine or the frame building machine,” says Diane. “It is also giving us an opportunity to give people advancement and to have a trade and a craft.”

Recognizing the potential in their personnel and people in the community who are struggling to fit in is a point of pride for the Fredericks. The couple work with Habitat for Humanity, a local food bank and Talk Is Free Theatre group in Barrie, bringing their construction expertise and material donations as needed.

They have a son and a daughter, with the former on the autism spectrum, a condition that presents specific life challenges. Their under-

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Co-owners Diane and Ken Frederick: both have deep sales experience and a deep commitment to their employees and community.

standing of ASD (autism spectrum disorder) has led Ferndale to hire two individuals with ASD in recent years, as well as provide seasonal work for their 19-year-old son as he attends college.

“With people in general — I find that everybody has quirks,” says Ken. “There is not a single person who I have ever met, who if you know them long enough, doesn’t have some kind of a quirk.

“With autism, it tends to be a social quirk which is noticeable very quickly.” Diane and Ken have found with ASD, it is not generally a learning quirk.

“Often their quirks are their strengths,” he says. “Things that become very valuable. They do great work and they are willing to do it.”

Doing great work can have unin-

tended consequences for those that employ people on the autism spectrum, however. One employee with ASD, Jordan, who had trouble initially with sensory overload from noise in the shop, is quite detail-oriented when it comes to tidiness and quality control.

“He still pulls a lot of our doors (out of the production line) and at

first every single door had a flaw!” recalls Ken. “They did, but they are so tiny, most people wouldn’t even consider them a flaw.”

The great thing about Jordan is that he does everything that is asked of him, according to Ken. He has become so appreciated for his work ethic that now “my cabinet installer wants to work with Jordan.”

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Law WOOD Duties and liabilities of directors and officers

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t is a common misconception that if you are a director or officer of a private corporation you cannot be held personally liable for acting as such; after all, a corporation was incorporated to run your business to avoid personal liability.

Louis Vouloukos However, directors and officers of a corporation can be held personally liable should they breach certain duties. This article highlights some of the more common duties and liabilities of directors and officers of a private corporation with the help of a fact scenario that, while fictitious, is not uncommon.

XYZ Corp. operates a tool and die shop in Ontario. Joe and Mike are the only directors, officers and owners of XYZ Corp. There is no unanimous shareholders’ agreement

in place. There are 10 employees working for XYZ Corp. While XYZ Corp has been in operation for many years, it has not done well in the last few years, and has been operating at a substantial loss. The equipment and machinery is old and obsolete and worth pennies on the dollar if sold. XYZ Corp. was forced to close its doors three months ago.

Joe recently received two letters addressed to XYZ Corp., Mike and Joe personally: one letter from the Canada Revenue Agency claiming a large amount is due and owing by XYZ Corp. for unremitted source withholdings and HST; and another letter from a lawyer representing XYZ’s former employees, claiming a large amount of money is due to them from XYZ Corp. for unpaid wages and vacation pay. Mike sends Joe an email saying, “don’t worry, there is nothing they can do to us personally.”

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In fact, Mike signed the resolution of the directors approving the decision of XYZ Corp. to enter into a contract with that other corporation.

Joe seeks legal advice.

Joe, like many, will be surprised to find out that he can, indeed, be help personally liable for certain amounts owing by XYZ Corp. He also finds out that Mike may be liable to XYZ Corp.

Specific duties and liabilities of directors and officers

While it may come as a surprise, directors and officers of a corporation have numerous duties and liabilities imposed on them in a great number of statutes at all levels of government including municipal, provincial

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and federal. Some of the more common director and officer duties and liabilities encountered by a private corporation include the following: Employment Related Duties and Liabilities. In Ontario, under the Ontario’s Business Corporations Act and the Employment Standards Act, 2000, directors are, jointly and severally, liable for up to six months’ wages for services performed by the employees while they were directors and for vacation pay. “Jointly and severally” means that all directors are equally (i.e. “jointly”) responsible, but, notwithstanding, any director on his or her own (i.e.“severally”) can be responsible to pay the entire sum owing.

Tax Duties and Liabilities. Similarly, directors of a corporation can be held, jointly and severally, liable under both the Income Tax Act (Canada) for unremitted source withholdings, including payroll deductions, and under the Excise Tax Act (Canada) for unremitted HST. Further, directors can also be liable for a corporation’s failure to remit amounts required under the Canada Pension Plan or Employment Insurance Act. Similarly, directors can also be liable for a corporation’s failure to remit provincial income tax, sales tax or health tax, to a name just a few.

Environmental Duties and Liabilities. In Ontario, a director and officer who does not take reasonable care to prevent the corporation from discharging or permitting the discharge of a contaminant into the environment can be held liable for a breach of various environmental protection statutes, and is subject to pay a fine and/or imprisonment or both.

Turning to our fictitious fact pattern above, XYZ Corp. would be liable for any unremitted source withholdings and HST due to the CRA, and, also, for any unpaid wages for six months’ and vacation pay owing to its former employees. Since XYZ Corp. is not operational and has no real assets of any value left with which to satisfy these claims,

Joe and Mike can be held, jointly and severally, liable to pay such amounts owing by XYZ Corp.

General duties and liabilities

Directors of a corporation are responsible for managing or supervising the management of the business and affairs of the corporation, unless a unanimous shareholders agreement is in place that restricts this responsibility. In Ontario, the OBCA imposes two general types of obligations on directors when managing the business and affairs of the corporation, namely: a fiduciary duty, which can be described as the duty to act honestly and in good faith with a view to the best interest of the corporation; and a duty of care, which can be described as a duty to exercise the care, diligence and skills that a reasonably prudent person would exercise in comparable circumstances.

A director can be held personally liable for a breach of these duties. For example, it would be considered a breach of a director’s fiduciary duty if a director diverts onto themselves an opportunity that belongs to the corporation. Turning to our fictitious example above, by secretly contacting XYZ Corp.’s clients and directing their business to a competing corporation, Mike, as a director of XYZ Corp., was clearly not acting in the best interests of XYZ Corp. and, therefore, breached his fiduciary duty by taking a corporate opportunity away from XYZ Corp. Moreover, Mike was in a “conflict of interest” when XYZ Corp. entered into a contract with the competing corporation that Mike was a director and shareholder of. Under section 132(1) of the OBCA, Mike was under a duty to disclose this “conflict of interest” and not to vote on the resolution approving of XYZ. Corp.’s decision to enter into the contract with this competing business.

As a result of Mike’s breach of his statutory duties, he may be held personally liable for breaching his fiduciary duty relating to the divestiture of a corporate opportunity and, also, for failing to disclose his conflict of interest. Consequently, Mike may be held to account personally for any profits obtained by reason of these breaches. XYZ Corp. and Joe may sue Mike to recover such amounts.

Operating a business through a corporation does necessarily shield its directors and officers from personal liability. Directors and officers of a Canadian private corporation are encouraged to familiarize themselves with their various statutory duties that may give rise to personal liability, of which there are many.

Louis Vouloukos of Brampton, Ont.- based Lawrences, specializes in corporate, commercial and franchise law.

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Enthusiasm builds in Canada for multi-storey structural wood buildings

TALL wood Despite historical fire and structural safety concerns, the modest, tall wood buildings movement of the last few decades is picking up steam in Canada.

To provide a framework for architects and builders, the Government of Ontario published a (free) guide in October 2017, Tall Wood Building Reference: A Technical Resource for Developing Alternative Solutions under Ontario’s Building Code.

The technical resource has two main sections: Fire Safety and Structural Design. These two major topics are normally of most concern during design and review of tall wood buildings and are at times interrelated, states the reference. “Thus, it is expected that design teams and building departments will work together at the early stages of design since structural decisions can affect fire performance and vice versa. The sections go into detail on aspects of compliance, methods of analysis, methods of design and the expected performance requirements for fire and structure. Other topics such as thermal performance, acoustic performance and constructability are covered in other references as noted throughout this technical resource.”

FPInnovations of Pointe-Claire, Que., a Canadian primary and secondary wood manufacturing research orga-

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nization, has had its 2014 Technical Guide for the Design and Construction of Tall Wood Buildings in Canada for sale since 2014.

What is a tall wood building? In Ontario, according to the provincial reference guide, “a tall wood building is defined as a building over six storeys that uses wood for its structural system and is built using mass timber construction. Mass timber refers to large-dimension solid lumber, glued-laminated lumber, cross-laminated lumber or other large-dimension wood products as opposed to conventional stick-frame construction typically used in low-rise and mid-rise buildings.”

British Columbia and Quebec have also approved designs and issued building permits for buildings that exceed the six-storey limits using other mechanisms in their building codes.

Building tall in wood is not a new phenomenon, according to FPInnovations. In fact, it says, Canada has a history of constructing tall wood buildings out of heavy timber and brick elements, reaching up to nine storeys.

“In the early 20th century,” states FPInnovations, “with the increase in reinforced concrete and structural

Functioning today, and planned for the future: Brock Commons Tallwood House at UBC in Vancouver (left), and renderings for 77 Wade Avenue, planned for Toronto’s Bloor Village.

steel research and construction, and with growing concerns over fire and durability, the structural use of wood fell out of common use in tall buildings.

“This trend is beginning to reverse, however. In the last few decades, the world has seen a resurgence of mass timber products and systems that are paving the way for tall wood buildings.”

The technical guide from FPInnovations was prepared by a group of experts to assist architects, engineers, code consultants, developers, building owners, and Authorities Having Jurisdiction (AHJ) in understanding the unique issues to be addressed when developing and constructing tall wood buildings that are beyond the height and area limits currently found in the National Building Code of Canada (NBCC).

The Canada guide also provides design and construction teams with the concepts and background to respond to questions that arise when designing beyond the height and area limits prescribed by the NBCC. Mass timber offers the advantages of improved dimensional stability and better fire performance during construction and occupancy, notes the Ontario guide. “Tall wood buildings are not new to Ontario — many such

buildings are still in use in Ontario after nearly 100 years in service, however over time, changes to building codes and the introduction of steel and concrete for high-rise construction resulted in a decline in construction of tall wood buildings over the decades.

“But with new wood products and modern means of fire engineering, modern tall wood buildings are now being built in Canada. The new products and the way in which they are pre-fabricated and constructed offer tremendous opportunities to improve quality and speed of construction for buildings in Ontario.”

One tall wood building construction project that stands above the rest in recent years is the Brock Commons Tallwood House completed in 2017, an 18 storey, LEED Gold target, 404-bed student residence building located at the University of British Columbia (UBC) in Vancouver.

And coming soon at just seven storeys — one storey above the provincial code tall wood definition — 77 Wade Avenue, located in Toronto, Ont.’s Bloordale Village, will be a prototype for a mid-rise (between six and 10 storeys) office building, using a hybrid structure including mass timber.

Designed by Toronto-based Bogdan Newman Caranci (BNC), the inherent warmth of exposed wood structure will be showcased through the use of composite mass timber, concrete and steel structural assemblies to create highly desirable environments for today’s office occupants, according to BNC. “Unlike the construction of 20th century post and beam buildings,” states BNC, “construction of 77 Wade optimizes the use of a mass-timber hybrid structural system by way of pre-fabricated components and just-in-time delivery and construction practices to achieve spans akin to traditional concrete and steel superstructure projects.”

The approach to the building is unified with an origami geometry soffit and organic front entry, retail and flexible collaboration spaces, states BNC. Perched above the form is a wood canopy that creates shading for the outdoor amenity/social space, it adds.

Tall wood buildings lend themselves to creative design choices in millwork and furnishings, such as in the forthcoming 77 Wade construction. The description of Tallwood House at UBC by Acton Ostry Architects of Vancouver, B.C., certainly provides a glimpse of this potential: “A prefabricated facade, arranged in a pattern of vertical striations, features pre-installed windows and cladding consisting of 70 per cent wood fibres. A metal cornice crowns the building. A CLT canopy runs the length of a curtain wall base, which reveals the warm wood finishes of amenity spaces within.

“Elevator lobbies are clad with the same material as the exterior. Hallway finishes include natural wood doors and a palette of rich umber and ochre accent finishes.” www.woodindustry.ca

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New Products CNC routers feature tool changer

The Flex Series of CNC routers from Komo is available in moving single table, twin table or moving gantry configurations, and all feature a sidemounted tool changer. Features include a four-pole, 18 hp, 24,000 rpm, HSK 63F, fan-cooled spindle, with a 12-position automatic tool changer with aggregate capability. Units have an air blast for optimal dust/chip evacuation and cooling of the cutting tool, and a Fanuc HVI servo system tuned for optimum acceleration and deceleration. The routers have a tool touch-off device with automatic tool data uploading, Fanuc Panel i control with integrated PC, universal grid fixture table available in composite (standard) or aluminum (option), pressurized automatic centralized lubrication system, Komo Production Manager and Machine Monitoring software and a 19 in. colour monitor. www.komo.com

Metal drawer box system

Hardware Resources has introduced a new cabinet-drawer system with thin, double-wall steel drawer boxes built onto Dura-Close full extension, softclose 100 lb. undermount slides. The system’s ½-in. wall profile yields more usable drawer space than a traditional

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A-frame metal-drawer box system.

The versatile drawer boxes, which can be used with frameless or face-frame cabinetry, are constructed of solid steel with a slate-gray powder-coat finish.

Customers can mix or match cabinetry materials with the drawers and add customized wood drawer fronts. The slides’ rack-and-pinion operation stabilizes the drawer and prevents sag. The drawers include front cams for vertical and horizontal drawer-front adjustment. A front-release cam accommodates easy drawer-front removal.

There is a choice between two drawer heights and three lengths. www.hardware-resources.co

Expanded line of phenolic tooling

Vortex Tool Company has expanded its Series 6100 and 6200 line of threeflute phenolic/composite spirals with four new spiral tool sizes. For upcut geometry, part 6143C with a 3/8 Cutting Edge Diameter (CED) and part 6152C with a 1/2 CED have been added. For downcut geometry, part 6243C with 3/8 CED and part 6252C with 1/2 RB13969CED have been added. The tools are said to provide better finishes and significantly lower noise levels when cutting phenolic panels and composite materials at high feed rates. www.vortextool.com

Lifting devices rotate materials

The eT-Hover-loop lifting devices by Eurotech are said to help turn flat loads of up to 500 kg easily and without compromising operator health.

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The vacuum devices are used for lifting and turning vacuumtight, flat loads such as glass panes, sheet metal and plastic or wooden boards. The product range combines simultaneously pivoting and rotating lifting devices with simpler models offering one of the two motions only. It also features devices designed specifically for transporting loads horizontally or vertically. The series adds a 180° turn to this pool of useful functions. The vacuum is generated by a vacuum pump with an integrated non-return valve, a vacuum reservoir and two solenoid valves for controlling the suction and aeration functions. An air blower is said to let operators detach the loads effortlessly. In smaller devices with a maximal load of 250 kg, a linear actuator performs the 180° turn. Larger devices in the eT-Hoverloop range use a gear motor. www.etvac.com

Multi-purpose industrial CNC routers

AXYZ Series CNC Routers are available with an extensive choice of process areas, a variety of head and tooling configurations, and a diverse combination of productivity options.

They are suitable for use in many different application areas and for processing all types of woods, plastics and non-ferrous metals. Popular applications include: sign-making of 2D and 3D signs in woods, metals and plastics; general woodworking such as furniture, shopfitting and scenery production; multi-purpose routing

and engraving in materials for interiors; and, point of purchase. Units are available in a wide variety of standard and custom sizes, with process areas up to 128 in. wide by 50 ft. long. www.axyz.com

Full extension pocket door system

The Salice Pocket Door System has a smooth lateral assisted, positive opening and cushioned soft-close action, which is controlled by a safety device.

This ensures that the door is fully extended before the door is closed, eliminating the risk of damaging the inside surface. The system enables the optimization of space and can be used in a host of applications: pantry units for kitchens, to hide away appliances like washers and dryers, freezers or even sinks; in living rooms for media or library units; and, in bedroom wardrobes as well as in commercial office storage applications. Mechanism elements are composed of aluminum profiles in 6060T5 alloy, silver anodized, and components are made of plastic, steel and zinc alloy. Door features include: maximum weight for each door of 30 kg (distributed evenly); thickness range from ¾ to 1- 3/16 in.; width from 15- 3/4 to 35- 7/16 in.; height from 51-19/64 to 60- 53/64 in. (consult technical

support for the verification). Materials can be wood or derivatives, as well as metal and glass frames. www.salicecanada.com

Keyless cabinet locking system

The StealthLock keyless cabinet locking system from CompX Timberline uses radio frequency technology. One transmitter pad can operate a single or multiple receiver latches, with the transmitter pad operating within a 15 ft range. The system operates with separate and programmable

user and supervisor codes. User programmable with optional modes of operation for single use or self-lock, the system works with wood, phenolic resin and glass material. The receiver latch mounts within ½ in. drawer suspension clearance and recommended use is in the temperature range of 50° to 120°F. Applications include: lockers; closet cabinets and storage; kitchen and liquor cabinets; entertainment units; audio visual cabinets; office furniture; reception and conference furniture; healthcare cabinetry; and, retail display cabinets. www.stealthlock.com

Assembled wood range hoods

All range hoods from Elias Wood

work are assembled and include the silver metal liner, as well as mounting hardware required for a complete installation. The silver metallic liner has a cut-out that will house any of the listed Broan ventilators (sold separately). Installations support a 250, 390 or 500 CFM ventilator. A 1,100 or 1,500 CFM unit can also be supplied.

The Mantel style hood allows the installer to add doors or accent panels of his choice to create a mantel style design. The Mantel kits include side gables, silver metal liner, mounting hardware and a wall mounting board. www.eliaswoodwork.com

Hands-free electronic opening system

The Libero electronic and automatic door opener from Richelieu has been introduced.

When used in combination with the company’s waste management systems like E-Cargo and Euro Cargo, the door opener pushes out the waste bin and permits a hands-free

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New Products opening. The device is activated by waving a foot in front of the sensor located in the kick board, which then triggers the release and opening of the cabinet or drawer. An integrated LED light indicates the sensor’s position. The low voltage device can be installed to the bottom of a base cabinet once a cut-out is made and then secured using 4 screws. It is suitable for frameless base cabinets and topmounted waste bins and common bottom drawers. Extensions will vary based on content weight and cabinet width. As a safety feature and to avoid any unintended openings, the device is equipped with a friction clutch control system that identifies obstacles.

Settings for the lighting sensor and ejection force can be adjusted using a smart phone app. www.richelieu.com/libero

Drilling and dowel insertion machine

The Sprint-PTP-Smart Koch from Taurus Craco offers a high-performance basic version of its drilling and dowel insertion machine for a variety of requirements. The equipment offers 4 working fields, maximum workpiece width of 1.200 mm, horizontal drilling station with 1 drilling spindle, vertical drilling station from above with 1 drilling spindle, glue injecting and dowel insertion station, and electronic glue control. Features include: 3 manually lowerable stops (centre and side fences); Premium Remote Support – service via Internet; and, central lubrication system.

Options available are NC-positioning of height adjustment, bar code reader and low voltage supply UPS. www.tauruscraco.com

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Soft-close drawer system

Automated dowel machine

The Omal Insert Range point to point, drilling, gluing dowel insertion machine from CNC Automation is suitable for the flexible or serial working of components of kitchens, furniture, drawers, frames and parts in solid wood. Benefits include: working speed and flexibility (drilling and insertion cycle on wheelbase is 32 mm at 0.8 s); precision components for consistent product quality; easy assembly; possibility to integrate the machine in automatic work cells; possibility of working different pieces in automatic sequence in one of the 4 working areas; a complement to a machining centre to eliminate horizontal drilling and at the same time to make the dowel insertion; and, complements horizontal drilling execution for nesting. Programming simplicity and managing working lists callable with bar code reader are also features of the dowel machine. www.cncautomation.com

Vertical hydraulic glue presses

The RfsProtech vertical press from Ogden Group is a compact, vertical hydraulic cold press used for face laminating products such as engineered flooring and engineered stiles and rails. Specifications include: press width of 12 to 24 in.; length of up to 24 ft; and, height variable up to 40 in. Up to 200 psi hydraulic pressure can be applied and a welded steel frame construction are featured. Optional equipment includes a front pressure bar to hold material flat and a roll coater. www.ogden-group.com

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The soft-close Vionaro drawer system from Grass incorporates two twin-wall drawer sides made of steel, a back panel and a front. A slide for wooden drawers as well as in steel are available. With Dynapro, the company’s track-proven concealed slide, the system uses the same concept previously employed for wooden drawers. Systematic stability is created with the front stabilizer integrated into the system’s drawer side to permit the installation of fronts up to 780 mm tall without any railing. www.grasscanada.com

Wide belt sander with planing head

Model finish 1352 modular and 1353 modular wide belt sanders have been introduced by Felder. The sanders can be configured either as a 2- or 3-belt machine. The free aggregate configuration option enables the optimal adaption to requirements, which ensures maximum efficiency and maximum time saving, the company says. A cutterblock planer head with 1350 mm processing width positioned on the machine infeed side is one option. Units feature simple operation with innovative control concept, the company adds, with effortless, toolfree handling and quick changeover capabilities. The sanders are said to be suitable for constantly high performance in continuous operation. www.felder-group.com

Bullets WOOD Canadian municipalities issued $8.3 billion worth of building permits in November, up 2.6 percent from October and up 2.7 percent the previous year.

—Statistics Canada December has been the best month for job gains in the U.S. since the height of the recession. Over 312,000 jobs were added as analysts had expected only about 180,000 new jobs, in line with the 175,000 added in December 2017. For the first time ever, there are more than 150 million jobs in the U.S. —U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics There were 551,000 job vacancies in Canada in the third quarter, up 17.8 percent from the third quarter of 2017. Over the same period, the job vacancy rate increased 0.4 percentage points to 3.3 percent. This was the eighth consecutive quarter with a year-overyear increase in both the number of job vacancies and the job vacancy rate. —Statistics Canada In total, there were 5,147 fatal work injuries in the U.S. in 2017, a slight decline on the 5,190 fatalities reported a year earlier. In 2017, fishermen and related fishing workers had the highest fatal work injury rate in the country with 99.8 deaths per 100,000 full-time equivalent workers. Logging is also well-known as a profession where serious mishaps can occur, and it came second with a fatal work injury rate of 84.3 per 100,000 while aircraft pilots and flight engineers rounded off the top three with 48.6 occupational deaths per 100,000. —Statista In a survey of U.S. employees, the level of physical activity they have to endure was recorded. Just under 75 percent said they have to put up with repetitive hand and arm movements while at least 45 percent have to move heavy loads a quarter of their working time or more. In addition, 44 percent said they sit all or most of the time while 34 percent are on their feet all day. —Rand Corporation A new survey by the International Council of Shopping Centers, The Halo Effect: How Bricks Impact Clicks, found that opening a new physical store in a market leads to a 37 percent average increase in overall web traffic. It also found that emerging brands, less than 10 years old, see on average a 32 percent climb in their share of web traffic when a new store opens. For established brands, it’s a 27 percent hike.

—Retail Insider

As 2018 wound down, economic and consumer spending around the world ended the third quarter two percentage points higher than in the previous period.

As a result, fast-moving consumer goods sales in many countries are trending upward. Across Europe, volume sales dipped in just five countries. In North America, both the U.S. and Canada saw a return to modest dollars sales growth, but inflation continues to keep volume sales relatively flat. —Nielsen Insights Total European Union (EU) sawn hardwood imports were up 4 percent for the first nine months of 2018 at 1.62 million cu.m. Tropical timber was ahead 7 percent to 720,000 cu.m and temperate hardwood increased 2 percent to 900,000 cu.m. —TIN In Nova Scotia, 3.9 percent of residential properties are owned by non-residents, similar to the non-resident ownership rate in B.C. (3.8 percent), but higher than that in Ontario (2.2 percent). —Statistics Canada While U.S. imports from China declined in October by more than 90 percent following the September 24 imposition of increased tariffs, imports from all other U.S. trade partners dropped by more than 50 percent for the month. However, nearly every trading partner, other than China, is ahead yearto-date indicating that U.S. importers may have been increasing their inventories in anticipation of increasing tariffs. —ITTO In October, U.S. consumer spending increased the fastest in seven months. Consumer spending, which accounts for more than two-thirds of U.S. economic activity, jumped 0.6 percent as households spent more on prescription medication and utilities, among other goods and services. —U.S. Department of Commerce A market forecast predicts 58 percent of U.S. retail sales will be digitally impacted by 2023, meaning those sales either will occur online or may occur in-store but be influenced by digital technologies. By 2022, smartphones will play a role in about 90 percent of all digitally influenced sales, and by 2023 will see their influence grow to represent $1.4 trillion in retail sales. —Forrester According to Furniture Insights, a U.S. survey of residential furniture manufacturers and distributors, new orders in October 2018 increased 7 percent over new orders reported in October 2017. —Smith Leonard www.woodindustry.ca

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Bullets WOOD Employment held steady in December and the unemployment rate was unchanged at 5.6 percent in Canada. In the 12 months to December, employment increased by 163,000 (0.9 percent), entirely driven by gains in full-time work (185,000 or 1.2 percent). Over the same period, total hours worked rose 0.9 percent.

—Statistics Canada Close to 44 percent of Americans rely on a car loan to finance a vehicle purchase, with auto loans now accounting for 9.28 percent of U.S. debt. Mortgages are still top, making up 67.63 percent while student loans account for 10.5 percent. —Federal Reserve Bank of New York In 2017, China imported 55,400,000 cu.m of logs and 37,390,000 cu.m of lumber. Almost no log imports came to the U.S. and lumber imports there come mainly from Canada, representing 29,800,000 cu.m.

—ITTO In the lead-up to the 2018 Christmas Holiday season, a national survey conducted for the Chartered Professional Accountants of Canada association indicated that 46 percent of respondents plan to spend the largest part of their holiday gift budget in bricks and mortar stores. Another 16 percent indicated they would spend the most online, while one third believed they would spend roughly the same amount in store and online. —CPA Canada The annual pace of inflation in Canada slowed in November to 1.7 percent as upward pressure from higher gasoline prices eased off. The latest data point showed the weakest year-over-year pace of inflation since January 2018, in a reading far more sluggish than October’s level of 2.4 percent. Inflation for September was 2.2 percent. —Statistics Canada Total national wealth in Canada hit $11.415 trillion in the third quarter, according to StatCan, and at $8.752 trillion, real estate made up a 76 percent share of that figure. That was the highest that both figures had been, going back to the second quarter of 2007.

—Global News

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Canada’s Manufacturing PMI sat registered 53.6 in December. Anything above 50 for the purchasing managers’ index shows a positive economic outlook.

By way of contrast, the PMI for China during the same period sat at 49.7. —IHS Markit Billings from architecture firms grew for the 14th consecutive month in November, according to the latest Architecture Billings Index (ABI) from the American Institute of Architects (AIA). The November ABI score was 54.7, matching the year’s high score from January and up from October’s score of 50.4. The continued growth in billings should mean a strong year for construction activity in 2019. —AIA Canada’s top upcoming public building project in December was revealed as the $400 million Gatineau 2 Preservation and Access Facility, Library and Archives Canada in Gatineau, Que. The top defence and law enforcement construction project is the $1.1 billion new National Defence Operational Headquarters in Ottawa, Ont. —ConstructConnect The U.S. Institute for Supply Management (ISM) reports its December new orders subcomponent of 62.7 is running at a six-month high. —Scotiabank Global Economics The level of machine tool orders received by industry in the U.S. rose by 27 percent to €3.4 billion in the first three quarters of the year. In September alone, orders shot up by 50 percent. After China, the U.S. is the second-largest machine tool market in the world, accounting for a share of 11 percent and a volume of roughly €8 billion. —Association for Manufacturing Technology In 2017, German manufacturers exported machines to the U.S. valued at more than €1.2 billion, mainly machining centres, parts and accessories, lasers, grinding machines and lathes. Exports in the first three quarters of 2018 were 6 percent up on the same period of the previous year. —VDW

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