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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