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Creating the Medium

Creating the Medium

To produce nearly perfect products, Robert Shaw Mfg. maintains very tight control over their materials. While the company does not actually cut logs, they do build up their own veneer faces, process panels and hand finish all their materials in a 90,000 square foot manufacturing facility.

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High Quality for High Security

High Quality for High Security

It is difficult for Michael Figiel, Vice President of National Millwork. Inc. to produce a portfolio of some of the company’s most innovative work. In fact, unless a person has a very high level of security clearance, he or she will never see that work.

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Lean It and Mean It

Lean It and Mean It

The term “lean manufacturing” is ironically overused. In its worst expression it is a euphemism for cutting corners, lowering cost and quality at the same time. This is the making of the classic race to the bottom that devastated the US furniture industry.

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Premium Commercial Interiors

Premium Commercial Interiors

He may not say so himself, but Bob W. Shaw is an artist. The soft-spoken Texan’s studio is a 90,000 square foot manufacturing plant, his canvas is elite commercial spaces and his unusual medium is wood veneer.

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Q&A with Paul Vella, Atlantic Plywood

Q&A with Paul Vella, Atlantic Plywood

To oversimplify the answer, a good distributor has to provide value to both their customers and suppliers. In today’s challenging economic times, having enough inventory...

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Sounding Board

Sounding Board

A good building material distributor is much more than merely a supplier of inventory. It moves manufacturers’ products into the hands of customers and helps those customers utilize them to become more profitable.

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