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From the editor

Those darned South Asians I

have never met Ravi Hooda. Neither have I had any dealings with the Peel District School Board or the ReMax Realty office for both of which he recently worked. As far as I know, I have never known anybody that had dealings with Hooda and doubt whether he has heard my name. Two ships.

I ran across Hooda’s name when he got blasted into the limelight via CBC this month.

Kerry Knudsen Hooda allegedly twitted a tweet that was unflattering to Muslims, which allegation cost him his job at ReMax, his position on a school council and an unforgiving representation in the news. That would be his social status, his financial status and his political status. He is, apparently, to be spat upon. More on that in a minute.

Hooda’s offence came when he allegedly reacted to a change in an ordinance allowing the Muslim Call to Prayer to be broadcast to the community over loudspeakers during Ramadan. Hooda said, “What’s next? Separate lanes for camel and goat riders, allowing slaughter of animals at home in the name of sacrifice, bylaw requiring all women to cover themselves from head to toe in tents to appease the piece fools for votes.”

That may well not be the kind of thing you would say at a mixed party, but if Rick Mercer said it to the Governor of Arkansas, it would garner him another Gemini Award. If you never saw that skit, look it up on YouTube. It’s a riot. Search: Mike Huckabee thinks Canada has a national igloo.

Back to Hooda. I am an advocate for free thinking, free talking and free acting. No, I don’t advocate screaming “FIRE!!” in a crowded theatre, but it’s worth exploring where the boundaries are. You have heard many times the phrase, “over the line,” or the INDUSTRY MAY/JUNE MAY/JUNE 2020 2020 4 WOOD INDUSTRY

question, “does this cross the line?” So, I’m more interested in lines than Scots are in plaid. What do those lines mean, where are they and who says?

I decided to write to the media-relations woman at the Peel District School Board. The back-and-forth has been lengthy, and I am happy to send a copy to anybody that requests one so you can get the whole context, but here is the gist.

On May 7, I said to Carla Pereira, Director of Communications and Community Relations for the Peel District School Board, “permit me to ask whether anything he said or wrote was denotatively hateful.” Denotation is a word-of-art for which most people never have a use.

However, for people that are charged with educating our young people, it should be no problem.

Denotation more-or-less means the dictionary definition of a word, not what is may mean in slang, colloquialisms, jargon, etc. Therefore, I was asking what is hateful about such words as camel, goat, slaughter, sacrifice, tent, etc.

I ended up asking that same, exact question 11 more times over the course of the next three business days, and nobody ever even tried to address it. Instead, Pereira informed me that, “What he tweeted was determined to be Islamophobic and a violation of the board’s Safe and Accepting Schools Policy, as outlined in the Principal’s message to families.”

It seems to me there are a couple of problems with this as a “notice of adverse action” that cost a man his job, his office and his reputation. One is the simple, linguistic question one would have over the meaning of “Islamophobic.” To me, it’s a slang word, made up in the last few years, that covers whatever any accuser wishes it to cover. It is not definitive of any crime.

And that leads to a more important point. Did Hooda violate a statute? If so, was he charged, was he tried and was he convicted? I searched the “Acts” of the Revised Statutes of Canada, and got zero results for Islamophobia, so Parliament may not have managed yet to criminalize slang.

That meant nothing to Pereira. She has a policy and a message from a principal. Note the distinction between a principle and a principal. A principal is that person when you were young that compelled you to address her or him as “doctor,” even though she or he would not have profes-

sional knowledge of the difference between a root canal and an appendectomy. What they had was a Ph.D. (pronounced fäd). Of course, by saying that I prove myself to be a fädophobe.

I became interested in who made the alleged “determination” that cost Hooda his livelihood and his reputation, so I asked. For what it’s worth, I once thought I would grow up to be a professor of linguistics, and I did considerable work in historical and anthrolinguistics in grad school. Those of you that know me can see that was a dumb goal and that I would not survive for two semesters as a university faculty member, so I left to do something meaningful. Nonetheless, I remember enough that I have some actual questions about the validity of this alleged determination.

Pereira told me I can’t know who these linguistic paragons are — these infallible, unknowable seers of evil in others.

Tell me you can’t see this one coming. She said, “Details of all school investigations are confidential so it is not possible to share additional information.” So, I asked if it was so confidential, how did CBC get Hooda’s name, employer and position with the Peel School Board. It seems to me that if somebody is going to lose his job, his position and his reputation, I should be able to ask who says so.

I have not been able to contact Hooda, but it appears the initial complaint may have been filed for somebody by the Canadian Anti-Hate (sic) Network. According to their website, “Ravi Hooda has been fired from RE/MAX and removed from his role as Chair of a Peel school council after our formal complaints.”

This met with vocal approval from several contributors on the Canadian Anti-Hate (sic) Network. For example, an entity that identifies itself as Usman Abdullah says, “I’m so proud of you guys! Thank you! Great work that you guys are doing! Just donated!”

Next, a Faizal Sheriff says, “This really needs to be addressed, espe-

cially among some elements within the South Asian community.” That one really resonates, eh? An anti-hater specifying the ethnicity and, likely, religion, of a despised (by him) minority and calls for a broader need to “address” the South Asian community. Those darned South Asians!

Abu Adam checks in with his approval: “Good job guys ! thank you for standing up in face of hatred.” This is followed by Mohammed Shayan ob-

serving: “His immigration license is still active, I assume. It needs to be revoked as well. Can anyone tell me the status of it?”

Zembla Ombrax said, “Please dive in deeper in this problem. It is worth the investigation. This Hooda guy and Tarek Fateh should be taken to court by the community for Hatred and Oppression. Enough is Enough !!!!”

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I was present when an assistant editor in our department got promoted to associate, and received oversight of one (1) subordinate. “This is great,” he said! “I have always wanted somebody I could push around.” I remember feeling sorry for the subordinate, and confident the neo-Nero would not last. I was right. Unfortunately, the targeted subordinate did not stay, either. Maybe he’s a business owner out there, somewhere.

Which brings us to you. How has your life been so far?

Did you start out in business because you wanted to own a factory in the wood industry? Did you run out of options and decide to invest a few hundred thousand in a trial INDUSTRY MAY/JUNE MAY/JUNE 2020 2020 6 WOOD INDUSTRY

business? Maybe you wanted flexible hours, or a chance to balance work and family.

According to Statistics Canada, the chances are that you may be the erstwhile subordinate, above, couldn’t take it and your ultimate goal in life became being your own boss. (OK. We all know nobody is his or her own boss, but you know what they’re saying.) Statcan says being your own boss is the top reason for being self-employed, at 34 percent. The second-most cited reason was that the nature of the job requires it — dentists, physicians, farmers — at 15 percent. Way down at the bottom, with only

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three percent, are the people that are self-employed because of more money and unlimited income. The report goes on to say that in 2018, 2.9 million Canadians were self-employed, up from 1.2 million in 1976.

There is a trick in the StatCan report. The report covers “self-employed Canadians,” and rates being one’s own boss as the top reason for self-employment.

However, the word “boss” carries the inference of having people for whom you are responsible and who are accountable to you. Clearly, many forms of self-employment are one-person shows, including dentists, physicians, farmers and so on, so there is a difference be-

tween being self-employed and being an employer.

Let’s assume you are not going it alone. Many of our readers are, in fact, one-employee shops, with the one being themselves. Most have more employees than just themselves.

You may be among the ones that are employers so they can push people around. Those employers likely have an unhappy work environment, are under the constant threat of lawsuit and have more difficulty than most in finding and keeping employees. Some might describe them as part of the problem, and a handicap to the industry.

In manufacturing, it is more common to see business owners as employers, although not necessarily. It is quite possible with modern technology to have a one-person production system that rivals much larger shops. However, it is not accurate to analyze manufacturers with the entire group of business owners to get a sense of proportion.

Manufacturing, itself, appears to be on the upswing in Canada, following a long period of steady decline. Everybody accepts that manufacturing has been on the decline since the late 1990s and before. The contributing factors typically cited are offshore competition for orders, but a contributing factor has been domestic competition for work in other sectors, on the one hand, and an unwillingness among young Canadians to do manufacturing work.

The unwillingness of young Canadians to work in manufacturing has been exacerbated by the government, itself, in cutting back on skills-related education in secondary schools and in marketing college programs focused more on their popularity in the media than in a bona fide need in the employment marketplace. Typical examples include an oversupply of graduates in forestry and medtech programs, both the subjects of multiple television fictions, and an undersupply of graduates in “the trades,” which rarely get portrayed as positive.

As manufacturing jobs have dwindled, there has been an impact on overall labour markets in Canada, especially for older, undereducated men. For example, according to Statistics Canada, the share of men working in full-time/ year-long jobs between 2000 and 2015 has declined five percent in Quebec, 8 percent in Ontario, 7 percent in Manitoba and 7 percent in Alberta, which echoes the overall numbers of people (men and women) working in manufacturing, down 3 percent in Quebec, 7 percent in Ontario, 4 percent in Manitoba and 3 percent in Alberta. Those are the heaviest manufacturing provinces, and when manufacturing goes down, the percentage of men working goes down. According to StatCan, the main findings of their study are similar to those of a U.S. study for men.

Without going into an analysis, the suicide rate among men is approximately 300 percent that of women, so we can hypothesize that manufacturing jobs may play a positive role in the health and safety of undereducated men.

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Why self-employed?

Being one’s own boss is the top reason, Self-employed workers, percent regardless of age Independence, freedom, being one’s own boss Nature of job Work-family balance Flexible hours Challenge, creativity, success, satisfaction Could not find sustainable paid employment

Age 15 to 24 30% 20% 10% 0

Age 25 to 54 30% 20% 10% 0

Age 55 and older 30% 20% 10% 0 Statistics Canada, Labour Force Survey

of hiring uneducated, underprivileged or disadvantaged people into manufacturing. In short, some of these people are very motivated to get and keep a job, or to turn things around after a series of bad luck. Potential resources include treatments centres, halfway houses, probation offices and such on-line resources as Indeed or Monster, or through your local newspapers.

It is no secret that manufacturing jobs outpace the supply of apparent recruits. The industry created an advisory board in the ‘90s that, in turn, created funding for the University of British Columbia’s Centre for Advanced Wood Processing. However, the output of the programs created there is generally hired by the primary side in B.C. Many colleges across Canada also have industry-specific programs for secondary wood-products manufacturing, and those graduates are in high demand and command a good salary. However, those are skilled graduates INDUSTRY MAY/JUNE MAY/JUNE 2020 2020 8 WOOD INDUSTRY

and skilled jobs, and historically the output has been well below industry demand, creating competition for skilled workers in the industry, with virtually no output of rankand-file workers for the sector.

One often-referred-to potential resource for workers is among Canada’s immigrant populations. However, the immigrant populations divide-out into subcategories with separate demands, capacities and interests. For example, some have a work permit, a study permit or both, some have no pre-admission work experience, some have another type of work permit and some are asylum-seekers.

Within each of those categories, each applicant may or may not have previous work experience.

However, among the categories of potential employees, the most desirable candidates have expectations. They came to Canada for a better life. For example, according to Statistics Canada, immigrants’ wages increase in proportion to the years since admission to Canada, and, for some, their wages catch up with those of the overall Canadian population. In one study, the median wage for immigrants admitted in 2007 increased from $20,400 in 2008 to $33,500 in 2017 — and increase of 64 percent.

Another germane fact is that the average age of workers in manufacturing is increasing – a circumstance nobody needs a study to confirm.

Taking it all into consideration, it appears our industry associates continue to drop the ball in terms of marketing. It is possible to identify a target demographic and to inform that demographic about careers in manufacturing. Not everybody needs a university education, and many of those that have one decide not to use it.

Given the nature and volume of our immigrant populations, and given their expectations of a better life in Canada, the lure of being a business owner may be our best card. We already established that very few people seek out self-employment as a road to riches, the desire to be free to make one’s own mistakes trumping that motive dozens of times over.

It’s fair to say there will be an increased demand for Canadian-made wood products in the near- and intermediate-term future. The biggest reason for this may be the lack of ability on the parts of China and the EU to compete in North America, needing to apply resources to repair issues in their own countries.

If you need workers, you may find you are your own best salesman, and you may find your best resources will be your own future partners, and even competitors. You may find them in the want-ads or a co-op, but you may also find them in a halfway house, a church, temple, gurdwara or mosque. Or they may hang out at your city parks.

We all started out somewhere.

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Lac-Mégantic, Que.-based Tafisa Canada, a particleboard and TFL decorative panel manufacturer, has announced the completion of a major investment to modernize its Line 1 continuous particleboard press. The $23-million project involved the complete refurbishment of the company’s original 28-year-old press, responsible for producing particleboard panels used in the company’s thermally fused laminate (TFL) line of decorative panels. In collaboration with Siempelkamp of Krefeld, Germany, the effort involved specialized contractors on site at the company’s Lac-Mégantic plant over a nine-week period.

The continuous press now features the latest technologies available, the company says, enabling Tafisa to prepare for a potential capacity increase to Line 1. This investment is said to provide for more consistent physical properties, better surface characteristics and more precise control over panel thickness.

The project consisted of removing every component of the press, leaving only the structure of the original frame and replacing the heating platens as well as hydraulic, electronic and mechanical components.

This latest investment by Tafisa comes on the heels of the installation of new rotary screens and a gas extraction system on the same particleboard Line 1.

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N.B. company to make cabinets from hempwood

Eastland Group of Companies, a Moncton, N.B.-based manufacturer of kitchen cabinets, bathroom vanities, mouldings and custom building materials, has partnered with Fibonacci, a Murray, Ky.-based company which turns hemp stalks into building-grade hardwood. Since Fibonacci

Eastland Group president Karim Bhibah opened its doors in July of 2019, the two companies have been working together to develop applications for hempwood in everyday building materials. Through its affiliated company, Canada Hempwood, Eastland is finalizing an exclusive licensing agreement with Fibonacci to press hempwood in Canada. Hemp is said to be more environmentally sustainable when compared to traditional hardwood species. Rather than the typical 20-year growth period for traditional hardwoods, Hemp grows in a 90-day cycle. Additionally, it is 20 percent denser than oak, and breathes four times more carbon dioxide than other trees.

Atlas announces contracts

Manufacturer Atlas Engineered Products of Nanaimo, B.C., has announced multi-product contracts and delivery of engineered wood product (EWP) and truss packages for several developments across Vancouver Island. The company has won two new truss contracts with W&J Con-

struction in Langford, B.C., and Seymour Pacific Developments in Port Alberni, B.C., that total over $200,000, along with a truss and EWP project with Campbell Shores Holdings in Campbell River, B.C., worth more than $300,000. Atlas has also won a contract with Northview Apartment REIT for an EWP and truss package for between $800,000 and $900,000, and another contract with Windley Contracting for approximately $500,000. In Ontario, Atlas reports truss and EWP combination packages are starting to account for more significant new contracts. Pacer Building Components of Illderton, Ont., recently secured over $400,000 of purchase orders for May and June 2020.

Wood products from Brazil, China under scrutiny

The U.S. Department of Commerce (DOC) has initiated new anti-dumping (AD) and countervailing duties (CVD) investigations to determine whether wood mouldings and millwork products from Brazil and China are being dumped in the U.S., and to determine if producers in China are receiving unfair subsidies. The AD and CVD investigations were initiated based on petitions filed by the Coalition of American Millwork Producers, whose members are Bright Wood Corporation (Madras, Ore.), Cascade Wood Products, (White City, Ore.), Endura Products (Colfax, N.C.), Sierra Pacific Industries (Red Bluff, Calif.), Sunset Moulding (Live Oak, Calif.), Woodgrain Millwork (Fruitland, Ind.) and Yuba River Moulding (Yuba City, Calif.). In the AD investigations, the DOC will determine whether imports of wood mouldings and millwork products from Brazil and China are being dumped in the U.S. market at less than fair value. The

alleged dumping margins are 86.73 percent for Brazil, and range between 181.17 and 359.16 percent for China.

Hettich Canada promotes Claudia Guhl

Claudia Guhl has been appointed to the newly created role as regional sales manager in Western Canada for Montreal, Que.-based Claudia Guhl Hettich Canada. Guhl will continue to manage her existing partnerships while now supporting and managing the territory sales representatives and distribution growth potential in British Columbia, Alberta and Saskatchewan.

Previously, she functioned as key account manager in Western Canada for four years, and sales representative for three years at Hettich Canada. Hettich is a manufacturer of cabinet hardware such as hinges, drawer and runner systems, and sliding and folding door systems.

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Vietnamese cabinets facing trade defence measures

The Trade Remedies Authority of Việt Nam based in Hanoi has announced the list of 12 products which are at risk of being investigated for trade defence measures or origin fraud and illegal conveyance, Viet Nam News has reported. The 12item list included hardwood plywood, wooden cabinets, mattresses and vanities exported to the U.S. For hardwood plywood and mattresses originating from Việt Nam, the U.S. Department of Commerce is considering the initiation of a trade defence investigation.

Macdonald Block set for $1.5b reconstruction

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He has served as board director for the International Sign Association, as well as the SGIA show, and board director for Roland DGA in addition to several smaller companies.

UCS Forest Group names new c.f.o.

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UCS Forest Group of Mississauga, Ont., has hired Ricardo Barrios as the company’s chief financial officer (c.f.o.).

Barrios was Ricardo Barrios most recently c.f.o. and president of Canadian operations at Diageo plc, a U.K.-based multinational alcoholic beverage maker, where he most recently held dual roles as president of Canadian operations and c.f.o. UCS Forest Group is a North American distributor and importer of hardwood lumber, specialty softwoods and decorative panels.

SAi appoints Scrimger to its board

Salt Lake City, Utah-based SA International (SAi), a provider of software applications for the signmaking, digital printing, textile and CNC machining industries, has announced the appointment of Rick Scrimger to its board of direcRick Scrimger tors. Scrimger has held execu-

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Bressanone, Italy-based Microtec has acquired Lucidyne Technologies of Corvallis, Ore. The acquisition is said to create the largest wood products scanning company in the world. Microtec and Lucidyne have been developing wood scanning and optimization systems for 40 years and 35 years, respectively.

IMA Schelling offers machine trade-in program

Raleigh, N.C.-based IMA Schelling Group, a provider of sales and aftersales support of IMA and Schelling products for the woodworking, metalworking and plastics industries, has announced that it is seeking to refurbish and resell used IMA and Schelling machines at its rebuild centre in Morrisville, N.C. Panel saws and edgebanders are being purchased for trade-in value toward a new machine. The company revamps and resells the traded-in machines on its website. During the rebuild process, each machine is cleaned, evalu-

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MBAC wins RAIC Architectural Firm award

Multi-scale firm marc boutin architectural collaborative (MBAC) of Calgary, Alta., is the recipient of the Ottawa, Ont.-based Royal Architectural Institute of Canada 2020 Architectural Firm Award. The award recognizes the achievements of a firm for its quality of architecture, service to clients and innovations in practice. It also takes into account the firm’s contribution to architectural education and professional organizations, as well as public recognition. Notable projects from MBAC include: Edmonton Valley Zoo, Edmonton, Alta. (shown); Courtyard House, Calgary; Calgary Public Building Restoration; The Fourth Street SW Underpass Enhancement, Calgary; Varsity Multi-Service Redevelopment, Calgary; Ambelside Integrated Site, Edmonton, Alta.; and, the Sunalta Community Hub, Calgary. Over the past 20-plus years, MBAC has been recognized for design excellence in the form of local,

regional, national awards, and international awards including numerous Mayor’s Urban Design Awards in Calgary and Edmonton, several Prairie Design Awards, nine Canadian Architect Awards, a Progressive Architecture Award, a Canadian Society of Landscape Architecture National Honour, National Urban Design Awards and a Landscape Network Award “Top 10 Public Space Award.”

Cabinetry maker investing in North Carolina HQ

GoldenHome International Inc. will invest $86 million US to establish its North American headquarters in Concord, N.C. GoldenHome is the U.S. subsidiary of Xiamen, China-based Xiamen GoldenHome Co., Ltd. The publicly-held company provides high-end integrated kitchen cabinets and customized furnishings including closet systems, vanity suites and interior doors. Employing a global workforce of more than

4,000, GoldenHome products are distributed and sold through 2,000 franchise stores around the world.

The company plans to base production, business operations, R&D, distribution, marketing and training in Concord.

The North Carolina Department of Commerce led the state’s efforts to secure the arrival of GoldenHome, which also considered other U.S. destinations, according to the Business Facilities website. GoldenHome’s new presence in North Carolina will be facilitated, in part, by a Job Development Investment Grant approved by the state’s Economic Investment Committee. In addition to the North Carolina Department of Commerce and the Economic Development Partnership of North Carolina, other key partners in the project include the North Carolina General Assembly, the North Carolina Community College System, Rowan-Cabarrus Community College, Cabarrus County, Cabarrus Economic De-

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Masonite Q1 net sales increase

Masonite International net sales increased 4 percent to $551 million US in the first quarter of 2020, from $530 million US in the comparable period of 2019. Headquartered in Tampa, Fla., Masonite is a global designer, manufacturer and distributor of interior and exterior doors for the new construction and repair, renovation and remodeling sectors of the residential and non-residential building construction markets.

Jeld-Wen net revenues decrease

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IWF and Xylexpo shows forge ahead

The global pandemic has led many trade shows to postpone or cancel events in 2020. Xylexpo, the biennial wood industry exhibition in Milan, Italy, has rescheduled from the spring to the fall of 2020. Acimall, the Italian wood machine tool industry association, has announced that the new dates for Xylexpo are now November 10-13. Meanwhile in North America, the IWF exhibition in Atlanta, Ga., is still on schedule for August 25-28.

the same period last year. Improvement in Europe was offset by core margin reduction in North America and Australasia. Jeld-Wen, founded in 1960, is one of the world’s largest door and window manufacturers, operating manufacturing facilities in 20 countries located primarily in North America, Europe and Australia.

AWI appoints new technical director

The Architectural Woodwork Institute of Potomac Falls, Va., has appointed Hunter Morrison, a wood and science technology engineer, as the association’s technical director. Morrison will be responsible for overseeing execution of ANSI/AWI Standards develHunter Morrison opment, leading the National Testing Center team in Americus, Ga., providing technical support for

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the industry and fulfilling his duty of AWI senior staff member. Prior to joining AWI, he worked for an architectural woodworking manufacturer, Boulder Mills, in Lafayette, Colo.

Morrison was the firm’s project engineer, with a broad scope of work and responsibilities. His experience also included working at High Country Millwork, a high-end retail store fixture company in Longmont, Colo., where his responsibilities evolved from an initial position as drafting engineer to lead engineer.

Arauco shifts to MDF millwork production

Atlanta, Ga.-based Arauco has announced the closure of its particleboard line in Moncure, N.C. The deci-

sion was based on an assessment over several years that the older manufacturing platform was less competitive compared to the company’s other advanced, high-capacity particleboard platforms. The company’s Moncure medium density fiberboard (MDF) line, however, will be integrated with a moulding line to create an advanced MDF millwork operation in order to drive efficiencies and support its commitment to provide customers with value-added products, the company says.

Grass wins Red Dot Design Award 2020

The 2020 Red Dot Award in the Product Design category has gone to Grass of Hochst, Austria, for its new movement mechanism, Kinvaro T-Slim. The Red Dot international jury awards its seal of quality approval only to products of outstanding design quality and receives close to 6,500 products submitted for consideration. Grass has now won a Red Dot design award five times. Besides the movement mechanism, the product is said to be the thinnest, most efficient flap lift system developed by the company to date. The flap lift mechanism blends into the furniture almost invisibly, the company says, thereby unlocking new possibilities for overhead wall cabinets.

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ood certainly isn’t a sticky material. It’s fairly easy to reduce a large volume of wood into smaller ones, if you understand its propensity to split along its grain. But it is altogether another matter to stick it back together.

Of course, we now have an array of wonderful Paul Epp adhesives that do the job for us, but at one time doing that job was the job.

If we were to list the various wood trades in order of how fundamental they are, wood-cutter would come first. In fact, that is how my young daughter described me in a school exercise. It was a term she would have learned from the fairy tales she was familiar with. There were no industrial designers mentioned in those books. But wood-cutters may have originally been those who procured fire wood. Chopping down whole trees is a specialization that requires very specific skills, known to lumberjacks, fellers, arborists and so on. But these trades don’t typically do much with the wood they have harvested.

That is left to others.

Log-home builders work with the whole trunks of trees and the necessary joints are obtained by carefully fitting of one part to another. Postand-beam building is also site work and reliant on joinery. Now, wood building is usually some form of studwall stick construction. Carpenters

do this and usually use fasteners like nails and screws.

Smaller scale woodwork, like that utilized in interiors and furniture was, fundamentally, a matter of reducing large pieces of wood into smaller sizes and then fitting them back together into a larger volume of a different configuration. Usually we desire furniture to be another form than that of a section of log. This required special skills and special knowledge of joints and how to achieve them. Joiners were what those specialists were called. Frameand-paneling is a good example.

This could still be done on a building site, but a further specialization was achieved by those who worked off site, building furniture and other portable items. These wood trades could be cabinetmaking, chair-making, woodturning and so on, all with their special and esoteric knowledge and techniques.

These specializations remain, although contemporary woodwork is now more a task of using prefabricated panels of one composition or another, thereby achieving the larger volumes needed. Very sophisticated hardware is employed, and the woodworking machines and their tooling are both very smart and incredibly accurate. It is industrialized woodwork, which is not to minimize the amount of human skill and knowledge that is still required. But there is not so much solid-wood to solidwood joinery employed.

That kind of work might be best described as pre-industrial, or craftbased. Before the specialization of industrial design emerged, which of

course required industrialization, the woodworker would have relied mostly on precedent for their designs, although there would undoubtedly have been individuals who were extra creative and who expanded the lexicon of what was both possible and desirable. But this would likely have been facilitated by them knowing what they were doing.

How do contemporary designers fit into the work done by contemporary woodworkers, or, more properly, contemporary wood industry? There isn’t much of a requirement to know about traditional wood joints or any of the other specialized techniques of solid-wood working. Usually the ideas that designers propose are filtered through the screen of practical knowledge held by the people that actually build things. This seems to work well enough, but occasionally designers will benefit from a deeper understanding. Fortunately, there are woodworkers who have made a point of retaining the specialized technical knowledge of an earlier time. Why this is so is actually an interesting question. It’s hardly because it’s a route to easy money. But it seems to be innately gratifying to these eccentric people, and I mean that description in its most flattering sense. Society is lucky to have them.

So are designers, specifically and especially, whose job it is to know about materials and processes. There is far too much to be known than is feasible for any individual to obtain or retain. So, these specialists are like a library of knowledge that can be drawn on as needed. They are likely to just refer to themselves as woodworkers, or craftsmen, or makers or something else. They rarely have big shops or even big reputations. But they are out there, keeping tradition alive.

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

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Profile: Evergreen Mouldings, St. Marys, Ont.

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That quality is immediately evident as you enter St. Marys, Ont.’s Evergreen Mouldings, owned by Dale Giesbrecht since 2002, when it was two years old.

Your first impression is of empty space with a bit of inventory and a few machines, all clean and maintained to a T. However, as your impression expands, you can see an organism with a heart at the centre, and supporting elements around — efficiency at its best.

The machines are grouped at the centre-left as you come in the door, anchored by an old, Weinig PowerMat45, six-head moulder with attached profile sander. Just to its right is a rip saw. Both are positioned so the same two men can run either machine, though Giesbrecht says they never run both machines at the same time. Material can be fed through the rip saw and stacked, then run back through the moulder and sander and stacked. Both machines are fed and received by a forklift that can pick up stationed raw material from racks long the walls, and load finished product directly to the truck, so the workflow goes in a U. Alongside the rip saw is an oldlike-new, Wadkin resaw, ready for use as needed.

If you visit Mennonite production facilities in North America, you begin to expect a certain, odd austerity — a sort of poverty in the midst of plenty.

However, as you look closer, you can see it is not that, at all, but design stripped of all excess, right down to the lowest common denominator.

On the front wall to the visitor’s left sits the best-maintained old Nelson and Atkinson upcut saw I have seen, ready to accommodate orders from some of Giesbrecht’s larger clients that require eight-foot lengths.

As Giesbrecht said in the lead-up to our visit, “I usually tell people to allow at least five minutes for a shop tour.”

That’s it for production. A moulder and sander, a ripsaw, a resaw and an upcut saw. Add two men, a forklift and raw material, and you’re good to go.

According to Giesbrecht, that adds up to 3,000 to 5,000 feet of mouldings a

week, for kitchens, handrails, stairs, hotel furniture and millwork. His market is generally a one-hour radius from Fullarton, plus Toronto.

“We enjoy doing stuff that other people won’t touch,” Giesbrecht says.

And, while that can include doing replicate mouldings for restorations of heritage buildings, his main product lines tend toward larger, solid-wood mouldings with custom profiles and exotic woods for higher-end customers. People that demand a truer match to their design ideas.

Giesbrecht laughs easily when asked whether he started out in wood processing. “My background is in construction,” he says. “I started in 1990, when I was 24 years old.”

He admits he was having trouble keeping a full crew, but, he says, when Evergreen came up, “it was really attractive.” The employment headaches were a factor, but he says he wanted to work inside.

One thing Giesbrecht says he was not prepared for was the “very steep learning curve” made worse by suddenly getting a bunch of leads for new homes for his other business before it closed, drawing him away from learning mouldings and finishing up with building.

Giesbrecht says he was helped greatly by salesmen that came around Evergreen in the early days, but he says his greatest benefit was in taking a knife-grinding course at Brampton, Ont.,-based Taurus Craco. “That,” he says, “was money well spent.”

Giesbrecht says he has not replayed is former problems with keeping staff. One of his two employees — his foreman — has been there about nine years, another had to quit recently, and his replacement arrived just before the Covid-19 orders and is on layoff. “I never want anybody to quit because I am not

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paying them enough,” he says.

According to Giesbrecht, his one true weakness is in sales and marketing. “I can produce the best mouldings in the world,” he says, “but if I can’t sell it, it’s nothing.”

Exasperated, he recalls a mentor that said, “The best per-

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Giesbrecht says his profile sander produces just about as much added revenue as do the mouldings, themselves.

Far left: Small off-cuts are Giesbrecht’s largest source of unused waste. Larger pieces can be used as firewood, and the shavings are a valuable secondary income source, but the sticks remain a puzzle.

he says, “is in high-end/top quality. Our main focus is value, but I value quality over price in the end.”

In terms of workflow and business models, Giesbrecht says he tries to keep a fair amount of raw lumber available in inventory. “I have never been a fan of

Just-In-Time,” he says. In addition, such situations as the current one with Covid-19 can affect supply chains and take decisions out of the hands of the owners. In addition, he says, “I can take advantage of big discounts sometimes if I can buy by the volume.” As for other sup-

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Giesbrecht sees his education in knife grinding as money well-spent, allowing him to create and archive custom profiles for customers, and go back to retrieve and recreate the same, exact moulding years later, if necessary.

Left: St. Marys, Ont., Evergreen Mouldings owner Dale Giesbrecht says his solid-wood shavings are a valuable byproduct of production, in demand from local dairy and poultry producers.

plies, Giesbrecht says he can get delivery at Evergreen very quickly.

As far as metrics, Giesbrecht says efficiency is huge.

“We track yield very closely and we keep an handle on efficiency.”

Giesbrecht says his biggest loser in the efficiency game is his offcuts. “There just isn’t much you can do,” he says. The bigger pieces get picked up by locals that use them for firewood, but the smaller pieces don’t have a demand, and he doesn’t have enough of them to warrant buying a grinder.

The shavings, he says, are another matter. “Shavings

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are a valuable byproduct,” he says. In the local area, there are many poultry and dairy farms, and the shavings are absorbent, pure and a good source of bedding for livestock.

Back out in the shop, a doorway opens off the wall beside the moulder. If the moulder/sander/ripper group is the heart of the operation, here is the brain. Giesbrecht put his knife-grinding course to good use, and he accepts samples from prospective customers, sets up a template and grinds knives to create virtually any profile a customer could desire.

Once again, Giesbrecht admits he wants to improve his system — this time by figuring out a better filing system for his profiles.

There is one more door on the left, that one going into the unheated, “barn” of the facility, where Giesbrecht stores his shavings, his delivery truck and tractor for moving shavings.

So there you have it. A five-minute shop tour in 1,000 words. Efficiency at its best.

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Law WOOD Obligations during pandemic disruption

Contracts and Covid-19 A

s Covid-19 continues its rapid spread throughout the globe, it brings with it unprecedented disruption to every aspect of our lives, both personal and business. While our health, undoubtedly, remains our number one priority, Covid-19 is also bringing about momenLouis Vouloukos tous interruption to our businesses.

Government restrictions, travel restrictions, cancellations, supply, demand and labour shortages, are all having an adverse effect on most of our businesses. As a result, many businesses are unable to perform some or all of their existing contractual obligations, either because they or another party to contract has been impacted by the disruption caused by Covid-19.

But, is party to a contract excused from performing its contractual obligations because of Covid-19? In this article, we explore contractual terms and legal principles that may be available to excuse performance of some or all of your contractual obligations.

Review your key contracts

If your business is unable to perform its contractual obligations, begin by gathering and reviewing your key contracts to assess whether there are any contractual provisions that may be of assistance. Many, but certainty not all, contracts contain a “force majeure” clause. Force majeure clauses may excuse a party from perfor-

mance of some or, less often, all of its obligations under a contract. “Force majeure” clauses are typically easily identified in a contract, but sometimes contracts contain other clauses that, while not specifically identified by a heading or reference to the term “force majeure”, contain language that can be characterized as a “force majeure.” Even if your contracts do not contain a force majeure clause or other analogous provision, you may be able to rely on the legal doctrine of “frustration.” You should also carefully look at the terms and coverage afforded to you by your business insurance contracts. We now explore each ULTIMATE these areasTHE in a little more detail.

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epidemic or pandemic listed, the clause may be applicable. If not, your force majeure clause may use the term “acts of God.” The words “acts of God” have been interpreted by our courts, and generally speaking interpreted as a (supernatural) event that is unexpected, unforeseeable and beyond either party’s control or foresight. Arguably, Covid-19 could be considered an “act of God,” but it remains to be seen how our courts would interpret such a phrase in the context of Covid-19. One thing is certain, however, and that is that each contract and each force majeure provision must carefully be reviewed and interpreted with reference to the entire contract as a whole.

If the force majeure clause is applicable, a party would need to demonstrate that the force majeure event is the reason for the non-performance.

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Law WOOD event. Even if there is a clear link, if relying on a force majeure provision, you need to take all reasonable steps to mitigate (or lesson) the damages caused or to be caused by the force majeure event, especially in a case where only a specific portion of your contractual obligations is incapable of being performed. For example, a claim by a party that it cannot perform its supply contract because Covid-19 is an applicable force majeure event that is preventing the supply of an essential component that is needed to complete production of that party’s products. Whether or not that party will be successful relying on the force majeure clause in this instance, will depend, for example, on whether that party could have reasonably obtained the essential component it requires from other sources, even if at a higher price. In short, if relying on a force majeure, a party should be able to show that it took all reasonable steps to mitigate its damages. Remember, performance has to be impossible and completely beyond a party’s control.

A party also need to consider the extent to which the force majeure event excuses that party from its contractual obligations. Is the party excused from the contract as a whole, or just a specific contractual obligation? Further, for what the period of time is the non-performance excused; permanently or is performance simply delayed for some specified period of time (for example, six months), or until the end of the end of the force majeure event that gave rise to the non-performance? Finally, if relying on a force majeure clause, a party must comply with any notification provisions contained in the contract, and, also, the relevant time periods for notification.

Delivery of any force majeure notice should be made in accordance with the contractual provisions and only by methods of delivery permitted by the contract. It is always a good idea to use more than one method of delivery provided for in the contract.

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Frustration

What if your contract does not contain a force majeure clause or other analogous provision? In limited circumstances a party may be able to rely on the common law, and, specifically, on the legal doctrine of “frustration.” Pursuant to this doctrine, as enunciated by the Supreme Court of Canada, ”frustration” occurs when a situation has arisen for which the parties made no provision in the contract and the performance of the contract becomes a thing radically different from that which was undertaken by the contract.” While an examination of what constitutes “radically different” is beyond the scope of this article, it should be noted that a contract becoming more onerous or more expensive is not enough to frustrate a contract.

It should also be noted that the legal threshold for establishing frustration is higher than force majeure, and, therefore, it is more difficult to establish the requisite elements of frustration as opposed to relying on a force majeure clause. This stems largely from the fact that a contract that has been frustrated results in all contracting parties being discharged of their obligations, whereas a force majeure event is dictated by the language of the contract as agreed upon by the parties and may act to excuse only one party to a contract, or excuse a party from some, but not all, of its obligations. Having said that, it remains to be seen if our courts will “relax” the frustration threshold in light of the novel Covid-19 pandemic.

Insurance

Finally, you should also carefully review your commercial general liability policies and business interruption insurance policies, if any, to determine if they can be relied on to alleviate against some of your businesses lost profits or protect your business from any claims related to Covid-19. For example, if your business is sued by a customer or employee for failing to take appropriate protective measures

to prevent the spread of Covid-19, your general commercial general liability policy may contain some protection. Similarly, if your business subscribes to business interruption insurance, determine whether Covid-19 is a peril contemplated by your business interruption policy. If so, you may be able to recover some lost profits because of any losses caused by the Covid-19 pandemic. As insurance coverage is wide-ranging and the specific perils that are covered (or excepted from coverage) varies greatly across business sectors and industries, every case may be different and insurance policies need to be carefully reviewed and analyzed on a case by case, policy by policy basis.

Conclusion

As businesses try to deal with the economic and business disruptions caused

by Covid-19, it is essential that business owners gather and review their key contracts to determine if they contain force majeure or analogous provisions that may assist in the event your business is no longer able to perform some or all of its contractual obligations, or if your business receives a notice of a force majeure event from another contracting party. Each case will depend on the facts and the language of the specific contract. If no force majeure clause has been contemplated in your written contract, you may be able to rely on the legal doctrine of frustration to relieve all parties form their contractual obligations. Insurance contracts may also provide some economic relief against lawsuits or business interruption losses. As Covid-19 is a novel and unprecedented event, it remains to be seen how flexible our courts or insurance providers will be when dealing with claims of non-performance of contractual obligations or insurance claims related to the disruption caused

by Covid-19.

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

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Inox has introduced the PD96, a commercial-grade sliding door lock.

The unit combines a built-in autolatching and auto-locking feature with the ability to accomplish the five most common lockset functions: passage, privacy, entry/office, classroom and storeroom. The product uses the same basic lock case for the passage, entry/office, classroom and storeroom functions and the trim determines each function. Only the privacy function requires a different lock case. The lock is ADA-compliant, provides emergency egress and is designed from 304 stainless steel to withstand commercial construction and application. It is available in several trims and comes in satin or bright polished stainless steel, as well as CeraMax ceramic-coating finishes. www.inoxproducts.com

Software for closet design

Mozaik has announced its design software now comes with a ready-touse closet library. Users can add common closet components from the library like short-hangs, double-

hangs, long-hangs, bridge shelves, corner shelves and shoe cubbies. Specialty items like wire baskets, hampers, trash pullouts, jewelry drawer, pant racks, tie racks and angled shelves can also be added. The items can be setup to automatically transfer CNC machining operations directly onto the adjacent panels. Users can click on the Settings Tab and quickly change colours and materials per closet to help up-sell the job, the company says. Users can also mix and match from their own face frame or frameless libraries. The closet library has been designed to work with popular knockdown assembly methods and is set up and ready to machine on a flatbed CNC router using Rafix fasteners. www.mozaiksoftware.com

Edgebanding matches popular colours

RAMS Industries now offers edgebanding that matches the most popular Benjamin Moore colours. The Benjamin Moore Edgebanding program is available from stock in four distinct colors: CC-40 Cloud White, OC-65 Chantilly Lace, HC-154 Hale Navy, and HC-169 Coventry Grey.

The edgebanding colours are custom produced to match the paint, including a velvety touch, the company says. The program is currently available in 15/16 x 0.018 in. single rolls from stock, with additional sizes and colours planned. www.ramsindustries.com

Hidden and floating shelf brackets

DC Distributing now offers floating and hidden shelf brackets along with standard, concealed, concealed flat and hybrid variations. Standard brackets are available in 11 sizes and are offered in Black, White, Folkstone, Almond and Primer finishes. Island bar brackets (shown) are available in one size mounting bracket with hardware included. Three bar lengths available 15, 34 and 40 in. Bars are ½ in. thick steel and 2 in. wide and have multiple countersunk mounting holes for customization. Load limit range is 350 to 3,250 lb. www.dc-dist.com

Vertical saws for sizing and routing

Safety Speed says its vertical panel saws need less space and help manufacturers increase production.

The saws cut and rout material up to 1.75 in. thick, within 1/64 in., straight and square. The company www.woodindustry.ca

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says the machines are suitable for shops that do heavy amounts of both sizing and routing of full-size panels. www.safetyspeed.com

Wood fibre processing

Incoming fibre costs are said to be reduced with the No-Knife Re-Sizer from WSM. The system is a cost-effective approach to processing chip overs, the company says, as chip

manual mixing errors and significant material savings, the company says.

The machine is available in 1 or 3 bases (colours) and 1 catalyst. www.sames-kremlin.com

Vertical drying ovens

overs can be converted into usable fibre while minimizing fines. Specifications include: standard performance rates up to 75 TPH; rates up to 150 TPH or more with a pre-screen; rotor diameters of 24 to 48 in. with lengths from 36 to 88 in.; and, 100 to 1000 hp output. Interior wear liners plus pillow block housings and spherical roller bearings with removable support blocks are featured. Materials processed include chip overs, chip over thick, shavings, hogged wood, inwoods chips and urban wood. www.westsalem.com

Two-component spray mixing machine

The Sames Kremlin Cyclomix Micro is a mixing machine for two-component materials. The machine allows the user to meter-mix and continuously deliver two-component paints and adhesives. The mixing process works by catalyst injection into a constant flow of base material. The catalyst is injected in the centre of the stream at a very high frequency. The unit does not require an additional pre-mix chamber. The benefits are fresh material on demand, the elimination of

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Designed for small to medium shops, the Casadei Flexa 27 automatic edgebander comes equipped with the MEGA 200 PLC controller.

Available from JKL Machinery, the edgebander features an industrial feed track, two motor end trim, double top and bottom trim, and scraping and buffing units. It can apply tape, PVC, laminate or wood banding on panels with a standard thickness up to 50 mm. www.jklmachinery.com

Dust collection attachment

When connected to a single stage dust collector, the Super Dust Deputy attachment line from Oneida Air With the patented Flexpro function, the new Omnidry range of vertical ovens from Cefla provide a passage height that can be automatically varied on the basis of piece height. The range is not only suitable for very high output lines, but also for robotic application lines, where greater flexibility is required, the company says. The oven series is said to maintain all the characteristics of the company’s standard vertical oven, since it can carry out flash off, drying and cooling all-in-one (even for paints that need longer drying times), while minimizing the use of floor space. The ovens can be equipped with a roller conveyor system combined with “rack” trays for piece collection and cyclic transportation inside the oven, or with conveyor belt systems, combined with motor-operated “belt” trays. Units can also be expanded with an additional 2, 3 or 4 sections. www.ceflafinishing.com

will eliminate filter clogging and suction loss by removing 99 percent of dust and debris from the incoming air stream before it reaches the fan blower. Features of the dust collector line include: works with nearly any single stage dust collector; prolongs the life of the collector’s filter; maintains continuously high airflow to tools; and, attachments are available in a variety of sizes. www.oneida-air.com

Cabinet miter machine

The Circle T LM116 Easy Lock miter joint machine from Akhurst is said to provide easy controls, setup and

changes. The machine is designed for customers making cabinetry and pillar wraps. A and B profiles are cut using a single pneumatic powered tilting spindle, eliminating the

downtime required by shaper equipment. Thickness changes of 0.5 to 1.0 in. can be made. Application specifications include: 1-1/4 in. minimum material width; 12 in. minimum material length; and machining angles from 90° to 30° (finish angle). Drive package specifications include: 5 hp, 230/460 V, 3ph spindle motor; 0.5 hp feed motor; 1-1/4 in. spindle diameter; spindle speed of 7,600 rpm; and, variable speed 11-roll positive grip feeder. Dust collection requirements are 670 cfm and 4 in. outlet, pneumatic requirements are 100 psi, and power requirements are 30 A disconnect at 480 Vac, 3-phase. Dimension specifications are 40 x 47 in. table size, 54 (W) x 4 (L) x 60 (H) in. footprint and shipping 49 (W) x 66 (L) x 66 (H) in. www.akhurst.com

Antique wood feature walls

Wood feature walls from Goodwin Company are offered in river-recovered heart cypress for both residential and commercial spaces. The

ease of installation and maintenance is said to be attractive to both homeowners and building design professionals. The wood is 100 percent heart, 100 percent dense growth and has subtle, graceful swirling grain with a blend of vertical and feathery patterns, the company says. It can include some pecky areas, face checks, knots of any size and a good bit of colour variation from warm honey through cinnamon tan to light chocolate tones. www.heartpine.com

of torque into three speed settings.

The additional T-Mode feature is said to prevent overtightening. Next to the Basic version there is also as a Set version that includes two of the new Li-HighPower 4.0 HPC-ASI 18 V battery packs and a belt clip. A kickback-free hammer mechanism drives the fastener rather than spinning the drill around the screw to protect the user’s wrist. The T-Mode detects the transition between sheet metal and wood and automatically adapts the speed. With Li-ion battery, units weigh 3.3 lb. www.festoolcanada.com

Small furniture spreading connector

Cordless impact driver

The TID 18 cordless impact driver from Festool has a compact, ergonomic design and a standard ¼-in. quick-release chuck. An EC TEC brushless motor provides 1,593 in-lb.

The one-piece SC 8/25 spreading connector from Häfele is suitable for small furniture items, which can be transported pre-assembled. With speedy and toolless installation, the company says, the finished product is invisible after assembly. The connector is inserted into an 8 mm hole and furniture components are then pushed together manually. Both connector parts spread themselves simultaneously in the hole and are said to create a lasting structural connection inside the furniture body. www.hafele.ca

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Wood stain palette expanded

Nova USA Wood Products has expanded the palette of its ExoShield wood stain with the addition of Platinum and Antique Bronze colours.

weigh approximately 15 lb. Tool outlets include sawblade connections of 30- or 40-mm bore. A combination ER25 and sawblade is accommodated, with an ER25 or ER 32 nut and collet system. www.mec-precision.com

Rotary planing machines

Designed to provide long-lasting protection for exterior decking, siding and outdoor furniture, the two new colours join existing Natural, Mahogany, Walnut and Black Walnut stains, the company says. Using a proprietary blend of Tung oil, UV blockers, fungicide, and trans-oxide pigments, the wood stain’s water-resistant, acid-resistant formula is suitable for enhancing wood stability, reducing cracking or warping, delaying graying and protecting against water damage, fungi and harmful UV rays. www.novausawood.com

Right angle head for CNC routing

The adjustable Benz Flex-Classic right-angle head available from MEC Precision requires grease lubrication and operates at a maximum of 15,000 rpm. Maximum torque is 25 Nm and gear ratio is 1 to 1. Units

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Rotoplane rotary planing machines from Ogden Group are said to be the modern way to calibrate and prepare wood products for gluing or finishing.

The versatile machines offer improved quality, productivity, and a significant cost savings when compared to conventional planing, the company says. The machines feature a patented planing head, which moves in horizontal rotation rather than vertical rotation as with the conventional planer heads. With the rotary planing, grain direction in the work piece is no longer a concern and neither are resinous, knotty, or wild grain woods, it adds, so that shops can now process cabinet doors and glued panels, as well as complete frame assemblies without fear of surface tear out. In addition, the shearing action of the planing head leaves a smooth porous surface that is suitable for gluing — it is neither too slick, as with planing, nor torn as with sanding, resulting in tighter, stronger joints, the company says.

The rotary head employs durable multi sided carbide blades which can be rotated 4 times. www.ogden-group.com

Heavy door push-to-open latches

The ML-ZN80 push-to-open latch for heavy doors from Sugatsune has a magnetic touch latch with strong push force to eliminate the need for handles. Units are suitable for hidden doors, closets and pantries. The body is made of metal for durability and the plastic part is flame resistant and compliant with the UL94V-0 standard. The magnet part has an allowance of 1.5° on each side to catch the strike plate correctly and helps the magnet to adjust even if there is a slight misalignment. The screws for the mounting plate are designed to be hidden from view.

For overlay doors, designs should include the correct clearance between the door and sideboard (as shown in the drawings). www.sugatsune.ca

Brushed nickel bar handles and T knobs

Suitable for upgrading hardware or creating custom furniture, the 1146LC25 bar handle and T knob series from Canmade is said to provide a reliable option. The handles and knob in the series are available in brushed nickel and come in a large variety of sizes. T knob dimensions are 40 (W) x 35 (H) mm. Handle sizes range from 76 mm CC, 116 mm overall L, to 1100 mm CC, 1140 mm overall L. www.canmade.com

Bullets WOOD The total value of building permits issued by Canadian municipalities decreased 11.4 percent year-over-year to $7.4 billion in March —Statistics Canada

The trend in housing starts in Canada was 207,809 units for Q1 2020, compared to 192,384 units for Q1 2019, an increase of 8 percent. —Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation

The value of Japan’s imports of wooden windows fell in February. Year-on-year, February imports dropped around 36 percent and month-on-month there was a slightly faster decline. In February four shippers, China, U.S., the Philippines and Sweden, once again provided over 90 percent of the value of Japan’s wooden window imports. —ITTO

Nearly one-third (32.3 percent) of 12,600 businesses in Last year, German manufacturers of woodworking machines achieved a production record of €3.37 billion with a gain of 0.6 percent. —Federal Statistical Office of Germany

The Italian woodworking machinery and tools industry reached a value of €2.27 billion in 2019, down by 9.9 percent from 2018. —Acimall

U.S. demand for plastic decking is forecast to rise 2.0 percent per year through 2023 to 97 million lineal feet, driven by a 60 percent residential market share.

—Freedonia

Canada who responded to a survey in April reported that their revenues from the first quarter of 2020 were down by 40 percent or more from the same quarter a year earlier. Another 21.2 percent of businesses reported their revenues had decreased by 20 percent to 40 percent over the same period. —Statistics Canada

Investment in Canadian residential construction rose 1.4 percent to $10.7 billion in February from the previous month and 11.4 percent over February 2019. Investment in single-unit construction increased 1.9 percent to $5.2 billion. —Statistics Canada

Total U.S. construction activity for March 2020 ‑ In March 2020, the Brazilian exports of wood-based products (except pulp and paper) declined 4.4 percent in value compared to March 2019, from $276 million US to $264 million US. In contrast, wooden furniture exports rose from $44.6 million US in March 2019 to $46.2 million US in March 2020. —Lesprom/ITTO

Canada’s merchandise exports fell 4.7 percent to $46.3 billion in March, the lowest level since January 2018.

Total imports declined 3.5 percent to $47.7 billion, a level not observed since October 2017. Both exports and imports were down almost 10 percent on a year-overyear basis. Canada’s trade deficit widened from $894 million in February to $1.4 billion in March. —Statistics Canada

$1,360.5 billion — was 0.9 percent above February.

—U.S. Census Bureau

U.S. home construction groundbreakings in March were 1.2 million units, down from 1.56 million in February.

Construction of single-family houses fell 17.5 percent, while apartment and condo starts were off 32 percent from February. —U.S. Department of Commerce

According to the Kitchen Cabinet Manufacturers Association’s monthly Trend of Business Survey, participating cabinet manufacturers reported an increase in cabinet sales of 9.2 percent for February 2020 compared to the same month in 2019. Custom sales increased slightly at 5.6 percent, semi-custom increased 3 percent, and stock sales were up 14.5 percent. —KCMA

In March, Canada’s monthly deficit in international trade in services decreased by $665 million to $1.0 billion. Overall, imports fell 11.5 percent to $11.4 billion, while exports of services declined 7.2 percent to $10.4 billion. For imports, this was the lowest level observed since April 2016, and for exports, the lowest level since December 2017. —Statistics Canada

The U.S. trade deficit widened by 11.6 percent in March, climbing to $44.4 billion US in March, as the Covid-19 crisis took effect. —U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis

The value of Japan’s January 2020 wooden kitchen furniture imports, while being down 7 percent year on year, was up around 8 percent from December. —Japan Minister of Finance

Canada’s estimated GDP data on April 15 that showed a 9 percent drop in March, resulting in a quarterly drop of 2.6 percent. —Statistics Canada

U.S. remodeling expenditures in March were up 10.2 percent to $189 billion US. —NKBA www.woodindustry.ca

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Last year was only the second time in history, alongside 2007, when annual imports of wooden furniture into the EU exceeded €7 billion. —ITTO

Real gross domestic product (GDP) in the U.S. decreased 4.8 percent in the first quarter of 2020. In the fourth quarter of 2019, real GDP increased 2.1 percent.

—U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis

Billings at U.S. architecture firms dropped in March as the Architecture Billings Index fell by 20.1 points to a score of 33.3 for the month (a score over 50 indicates increasing billings, a score below 50 indicates declining billings). —American Institute of Architects

markets between the weeks of March 2, 2020 and March 23, 2020. Further, these hours are up over 100 percent from the same week a year ago. —Nielsen

A report on wood millwork in the U.S. predicts that demand will increase 2.4 percent annually through 2023.

—Freedonia

Online retail giant Amazon had 4.06 billion unique visitors in March. According to the data, this figure was more than the combined visitors for the other five leading online stores. The data shows that eBay, Apple, Walmart, Rakuten, Samsung.com and Apple.com had cumulative visitors of 3.85 billion. eBay registered 1.2 billion unique visitors followed by Rakuten at 0.8 billion while Samsung.com had 0.6 billion. Walmart came fifth with 0.61 billion visitors. —Learnbonds.com

In Canada’s large urban centres (Census Metropolitan Areas), 40 percent of households own and live in single-detached houses and 26 percent live in rented apartments, according to 2018 data. —CMHC

Across its family of apps, Facebook now has three billion monthly active people as of April, which it defines as a registered and logged-in user of Facebook, Instagram, Messenger and/or WhatsApp who visited at least one of these platforms in the last 30 days as of the date of measurement. —Facebook

The number of deaths per 100,000 population in the top-10 countries worst affected by Covid-19 starts with Belgium at 73.08. By comparison, badly-hit Spain and Italy had 55.34 and 49.12 per 100,000 people respectively. The U.S. has surpassed one million cases and its deaths per 100,000 inhabitants stood at 22.41 on May 7, while Canada stood at 11.78 on that date.

—Johns Hopkins University/Statista

Prices for Canadian residential building construction increased 0.6 percent in the first quarter, while the cost of non-residential building construction rose 0.5 percent. Increases in construction costs for residential (2.2 percent) and non-residential (1.8 percent) buildings slowed over the 12-month period ending in the first quarter, compared with 2.3 percent and 2.2 percent rises in construction costs in the fourth quarter of 2019.

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With the lifestyle changes created by stay-at-home orders, there has been a more than 50 percent increase in video streaming from 1:00 to 4:00 p.m. across U.S.

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A study from the Centre on Research on Energy and Clean Air has found that Europe’s lockdown has resulted in an estimated 11,000 premature deaths avoided due to improvements in the continent’s air quality. PM 2.5 levels are down 10 percent on the same period last year which is allowing people with conditions like asthma to breathe more easily. The research estimated that 2,083 premature deaths from air pollution have been avoided in Germany, along with 1,752 in the U.K. and 1,490 in Italy. —Statista

In the U.S., 68 percent of workers said they would accept a 10 percent pay cut in return for being able to work from the comfort of their home. Almost half of all workers surveyed said they would take a pay cut and work more hours just for not having to show up to the office every day. —Platform.sh The Consumer Sentinel Network reports that business and personal loan scams top the list of loan or lease frauds in the U.S., with nearly 44,000 complaints, or over 40 percent of all loan fraud reports in 2019. Compared to 2018 data, business and personal loan scams jumped 116 percent over the last year. —U.S. Federal Trade Commission Peruvian exports of wood and wood products in January 2020 totaled almost $3.7 million US, down 4 percent year on year. The main markets were China, the U.S., Canada, South Korea, Switzerland, India, Chile and the United Arab Emirates.

—Peru Association of Exporters

Continued from page 5 who Abdullah donated to, the Canadian Anti-Hate (sic) Network, or the Peel District School Board. I was trying to inject a little levity into the situation, given the gravity of what I was finding, but Pereira seems to be as conversant in the language of humour as she is in English.

In fact, I said I am Danish, and, “I have lived my life watching and hearing characterizations of Danish women with steel bras, horned hats and loud voices terrorizing the common folk. We let it go. Nothing hateful about it. However, if Grunnhilde Larstensenson down the street ever started with her get-up, we just crossed to the other side of the street and kept our mouths shut.” Danish women have been the objects of stereotyping since at least the 800s when the Sultans found them especially desirable as slaves.

Some of you may be wondering, “what has this to do with wood?” Everything. We have this thing called the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Right up at the top, the second thing, it guarantees us: “2. Everyone has the following fundamental freedoms: (a) freedom of conscience and religion; (b) freedom of thought, belief, opinion and expression, including freedom of the press and other media of communication; (c) freedom of peaceful assembly; and (d) freedom of association.” Note that little bit about “other media of communication.”

There is lots more, but that will do for now. If that Charter has no meaning — if all it takes to destroy some-

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body is a determination by an illiterate school board and a Ph.D.’s letter — then nothing is safe. Not your taxes, not your company, not your church and not your children.

The Soviet Union, for example, had a guarantee of free expression. You could say whatever you wanted to. Once.

I will grant that Hooda may have given offence. I do, as well, and I get paid for it. So does Rick Mercer. The complement to denotative is connotative. Connotation bears more on social, or understood, meaning. So, while denotatively a goat rider may be simply somebody that rides goats, that does not ring true. Goats seem smallish to ride, but then I’m a big guy. Maybe elsewhere people ride goats.

On the other hand, if goat rider has a connotation beyond the obvious, then Hooda is vulgar. Not as vulgar as a gang of monkeys at a typewriter trying to discern the meaning of a tent, but vulgar. Shame on Hooda. He should have a letter of disapproval entered into his file, warning him to save his vulgarity for his private time off school property.

Oh. I see that he did. It was 8:36 p.m.

What’s next? A couple of toque-flaunting, beer-swilling, poutine-dipping Newfie-baiting hosers in flannel to appease the peace fools for votes?

So fire me.

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