Business Ideas & Best Practices
Wooden Spoon and Plate Handcrafting: An Italian Family Keeps Their Traditional Business Alive
A family of Alpine Italian woodworkers is among the 10% of local wood businesses that survived the crisis. Find out how they did it.
Two German Carpenters Set Up a Workshop for Wooden Furniture Design
When Heiner Schäfers and Aron Keidel, two woodworking enthusiasts, met at the master carpentry school in Germany, a parade of great ideas has begun. They started working together twelve years ago, and today they run a truly unique business in Recklinghausen in Germany.
The Finnish Contribution to the Success of Woodworking Products
The success story of Wood-Mizer begins with two genius engineers who decided to share their innovative idea of a portable sawmill with the world. They found a clever way of converting logs into timber cheaply and efficiently so that construction from wood could become more accessible to everyone. More than 100,000 people have trusted this machine and successfully built their businesses or hobbies around sawmilling.
Building an Aspen Timber Octagonal House in Finland
A Finnish entrepreneur John Ujanen applied paradoxes of octagonal geometry and built a super-efficient octagonal house from aspen timber.
Massive Sawmill Upgrades a Family Business in Denmark
“When I first entered the business and was able to make a profit, I realized how easy it is to operate the sawmill and how interesting it is. It inspires me to work at the sawmill every day,” says Thomas Andersen, owner of Varming Sawmill in Denmark.
A Mobile Sawmill Helps to Save Money on Log Transportation
“We no longer need a tractor to pull the logs out of the woods or a truck to transport ready boards to the customer's location,” tell brothers Geronazzo, the mobile sawmillers from Italy.
Premium Quality Sawmills ‘Win the Market’ for Poland Wood Furniture Company
The solid wood furniture factory in Poland increased productivity with the WB2000 sawmill. The owners of the FAGUS factory make a production tour and explain why they decided to launch a new wide band sawmill.
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Woman-Owned Contract Sawmilling in Germany
Bad Berka is a small health resort in the German region of Thuringia. Here we meet Sandra Eule, one of very few Wood-Mizer 'female' contract sawmills in Germany.
Traditional Bells Sound Better Thanks to Oak Yokes and Belfries
How to get the best sound out of a church bell? German experts with 300-year of experience claim it takes great skill and something more - a yoke from oak wood!
Forest Owners Sawing Beetle-Kill and Windfall Logs to Add Value
Need to clear the forest after a windfall? Are there trees affected by the bark beetle? One profitable solution is to saw damaged logs into more valuable lumber for homesteads and sale.