Frame Workshop Highlights
Upholstery Frame Workshop Highlights
The Upholstery Frame Workshop was held at the Conover Library on Thursday, November 7th, 2013 and attracted sixty participants. This workshop focuses on finding the cutting edge technologies for designing and manufacturing frames for upholstery furniture. The region that includes and surrounds Catawba County, North Carolina is the home of approximately a hundred upholstery furniture manufacturers serving the residential, contract, institutional and hospitality markets.
Sponsors of this workshop included North Carolina State University Wood Products Extension, Catawba Valley Commuity College’s Manufacturing Solutions Center. Harry Watt of NC State and Scott Rogenbogen of MSC organized the workshop and recruited a great set of speakers. The workshop ended with a tour of the MSC facilities located next door.
The workshop consisted of eight sessions with these speakers and topics of interest:
Topic
Speaker
Company
Website
Employee Apprenticeships Ray Fairman Central Piedmont Community College www.cpcc.edu/cce
OSB for Frames Jeff Jayne Louisiana-Pacific www.lpcorp.com
OSB for Frames Everette Edwards Louisiana-Pacific www.lpcorp.com
Plywood for Frames Update Ricky Straughn Boise Cascade-Moncure Plant www.bc.com/wood/plywood.html
Plywood for Frames Update Angie Milliken Dixie Ply www.dixieply.com
Plywood for Frames Update Eddy Sipe GLH Plywood
Equipment for Frames Jim Kloman Thermwood www.thermwood.com
SpaceClaim Software Roman Walsh SpaceClaim www.spaceclaim.com
Plywood Nesting Software Clay Bolick Plataine www.plataine.com
Plywood Nesting Software Eric Hill Plataine www.plataine.com
Fabric Pattern Software Andrew Rudistill Exact Flat www.exactflat.com
3-D Printing for Furniture Jeff Sellers TriMech Solutions www.trimechsolutions.com
Vendor Provide Information Downloads
Angie Milliken Dixie Plywood, Charlotte Douglas Fir Plywood Suitable for Upholstery Frames
Jeff Jayne Boise Cascade OSB Video for Upholstery Furniture Frames
Jim Kloman Thermwood Diagram for Reducing Labor at Panel Routers for Upholstery Furniture Frames
Jim Kloman Thermwood Link for Thermwood Virtual Tour
Photos
Talk on OSB
Plywood and Other Speakers
Jim Kloman of Thermwood Speaking
Everette Edwards and Jeff Jayne of Louisiana-Pacific leading the discussion on using OSB for Frames
Sitting-our plywood speakers-left to right-Ricky Straughn, Eddy Sipe and Angie Milliken, standing-Andrew Rudistill and Jim Kloman
Jim Kloman of Thermwood discussing the equipment options for making furniture frames
Roman Walsh of SpaceClaim Software
eric hill plataine nesting software
andrew rudistill speaking fabric software
Roman Walsh of SpaceClaim Software discussion using 3-D sofware for designing frames
Eric Hill of Plataine Software describing how nesting software can be used to imcrease panel yields and manage frame production
Andrew Rudistill of Exact Flat discussing how fabric pattern software will one day be linked with frame design software into one design system
jeff sellers trimech 3-d printing speaker
angie milliken dixieply plywood
exhibitor tables
Jeff Sellers of TriMech Solutions describing how
furniture manufacturers can use 3-D printers
Angie Milliken of Dixie Plywood speaking about options using Douglas Fir plywood for frames
Several exhibitors set up tables for show
and tell of their furniture frame products