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From the editor
Bully vs. bully
A utumn is slowly settling on the valley. The river
out back is running low and clear — a departure,
this year, from the norm. August
“we put a 20 percent subsidy on the back end.”
So nobody gets hurt? Not exactly. This gets into an
intricate scheme of currency manipulation, and, rath-
was as rainy as anybody can re- er than go off into the weeds on economics, let’s just
member, and high water and mud say it’s hard to explain how we can send hardwood
have kept the normal contingent over there for a buck a foot, just to make up a number,
of Sunday-afternoon floaters to a and they can process it into flooring and send it back
minimum. The farmers did well for 80 cents. I guess ocean transport is even more effi-
by the August rains, and the corn, cient than we thought. Or somebody is cheating.
beans and hay crops are all looking
to be great. For a less abstract example, let’s look at the world’s
Of course, international politics richest man, Jack Ma. Chinese, by the way. He owns
creeps into every conversation, as Alibaba.com.
Kerry Knudsen the specter of tariffs looms on the Lee Ann owns a small herd of guinea pigs, so I
horizon, but nothing has affected went on AliExpress and looked up guinea pigs. There,
the locals, yet, and people don’t seem too upset. I see I can buy a guinea pig bed in my choice of six
Nor should they be. As with the promise of agri- colours and two sizes, each for $1.74 Cdn., with free
cultural bounty, our own industry is cooking along shipping from China.
at record levels for building permits, housing starts In the alternative, I can spend $1.20 and a normal
and renovation spending. Wages are up, the economy business-sized envelope across the province in four
is up and industry is up. I guess, even as when the days. Perhaps it’s the boat again. Or perhaps some-
U.S. sneezes, Canada catches a cold, so, then, when body is cheating.
the U.S. is feasting, Canada benefits. Cheating is nothing new for Alibaba. They may
Even in bad news there is promise. The devastat- actually be the world’s greatest source of counterfeit
ing results of Hurricane Florence mean that people goods. I didn’t check the brand on the pig bed. I’d hate
in its path will have to rebuild, which means some of to think they’d counterfeit even that. One thing’s for
that work will trickle down to Canadians. The U.S. sure. I’m not going into guinea pig bed manufactur-
has a long way to go before it recovers its lost domes- ing when it costs more to send the invoice than I get
tic manufacturing capacity, and we can help. for the whole bed, done and dusted.
I don’t think it’s proper to dismiss the potential dam- The point is that the U.S. might end up being our
age of the threatened U.S. tariffs against Canada, but protective big brother, after all. The trade war be-
it is also important to recognize that those sanctions tween the U.S. and China is looming large, and each
are only a sideshow compared to the face-off happening party is posturing.
between the megaliths China and the U.S. The thing is, I think Trump is right. I think when
It was only 10 years ago that this column was look- you’re running a $375 billion deficit, you have all the
ing at China as an advancing juggernaut, eating up cards, since anything they force the States to pay will
the margins existing in North American trade. Back come out of the deficit, at minimum.
then, they were nothing but a wanna-be. But then the I’m not arguing politics. I think Trump will win;
market crash and the U.S. housing bubble happened, you may not. But with the two bullies on the play-
and China moved in with a vengeance. ground facing off after school, the rest of us can weigh
I have had the opportunity to go to China a num- odds and place bets.
ber of times, and we always talk business. My asso- My bet is that the wood industry in Canada is bet-
ciates over there were very frank, especially about ter off in five years than even it is now.
wood products. “If the Americans put a 20 percent
duty on wood products on the front end,” they smiled, Comment at www.woodindustry.ca
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Canada’s design palette: True north strong and REGIONAL Like the homes dotting the harbour in Lunenburg, N.S., well when they are authentic to the design project’s re- Canada’s design palette, is a vast, colourful and purpose- gion. Her company is busy with hotel clients across Can- ful one. And our climate certainly drives choices that are ada and has found that the further up the hotel hierarchy, made during design projects. the more they are mindful of local tastes. “Hotels really According to Jason Kasper, principal, Ideate Design do appreciate that their guests are looking for an authen- Consulting of Winnipeg, Man., president of the Interi- tic local experience,” says MacGregor. or Designers of Canada and president-elect of Interi- “There is a huge movement away from what we used to or Design Continuing Education Council, the climate is see in hotel rooms 20 years ago where everybody had the constantly a factor in his part of the country. “The one same artwork, bedspread and carpet. You don’t really see thing we have to be mindful of always is wood and humid- that anymore.” ity maintenance. We are less likely to use wider natural planks just because of the volatility and variation if we Based in Toronto, Ont., Lynn McGregor, found- can’t control humidity from a temperature swing which ing principal of McGregor Design Group, whose company can go from minus 30 to plus 30 Celsius during the year. has worked on commercial office projects across Canada, “There are some evenings in the summer where we go agrees that regional cultural sensitivity plays a huge part from plus 30 to 10 degrees. That is pretty fast for materi- in successful interior design. “People in Vancouver need als to go through in their ongoing acclimation. a different approach to say colour palettes and textures “People always have their mind and their eye on the than people in Toronto,” says McGregor. “It is the same weather here because it can vary widely. Summers can thing with people on the east coast. There is a different be extremely humid which wreaks havoc with all sorts of sensibility that the local culture has when it comes to col- building components.” our and finishes.” Despite this environmental assault on such natur- She cautions that trends can simply be fads when taken al products as wood, Kasper observes a return to these out of context. “I feel that this trend toward faux wood is types of materials, such a barn board. “Being an agricul- going to be short lived. tural community historically, Manitoba has an abundance “There is a disgusting product that I saw in an office of building stock that has been able to age and weather to space that was a plastic flooring that was supposed to produce this very trendy material. There is a lot of rec- look like hardwood and it had a pink tinge to it. They put lamation that is happening, whether it be from barns or it down as an upgrade from carpet for this tenant — it hardwood flooring from old high schools that are getting was supposed to be an upgrade and it just looked awful. either repurposed or renovated.” And quite often these faux products are not cheaper than Kara MacGregor, principal of Mac Interior Design in the original hardwood.” Halifax, N.S., believes that materials and finishes work The restaurant world has been guilty of adopting the 6 WOOD INDUSTRY SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2018
processes and that there is less of a race to the bottom
towards choosing cheap Chinese imports. “For cabinets
that are locally made you know that the cabinets are to a
standard that you want,” McGregor says. “So, you don’t
have awful off-gassing or whatever. I think is really im-
portant that there is a move towards choosing things that
you will be proud of for years to come.”
Part of the locally-sourced trend has been the
amount of information available to clients and consumers.
“There has been so much publicity around the toxic prod-
ucts coming from offshore,” says McGregor, “that I think
consumers are more than ever very happy to support local
rustic, grey wood look, but it rarely feels authentic, ac- manufacturers. It’s about time.”
cording to MacGregor. “The people stuck with those inter- For designers, there are wider tastes that come into
iors are going to be renovating fairly quickly. I do think in play when a colour palette is on the table. “In the northern
places where there isn’t really a connection to something hemispheres and in North America,” says MacGregor, “if
real that that trend will fade very, very quickly.” you do a survey about what everyone’s favourite colour
Kasper feels that design is an interesting time right is, you’re going to find blue wins out. With evolution, we
now. “Porcelain wants to look like wood and wood is have learned to discern more types of blue from living in
trying to look like metal,” he says. “It’ all about market one part of the world for centuries than living in another.
share and about durability and the product character- You’ll see bright colours closer to the equator, and more
istics. I think that I would always advocate that that is blue, muted colours closer to the north.”
what distinguishes a professional interior designer when A corporate client with branches across Canada can
doing projects. The ability to really analyze and assess face a particular design challenge. A national bank wants
for a client what the pros and what the cons are beyond to have its brand consistently displayed, while appealing
the aesthetic.” to the people who enter any given branch, according to
To create an authentic local experience for a hotel in McGregor. “If they want something exactly the same so
Dartmouth, N.S., “the city of lakes,” MacGregor took hold that an office in Halifax is going to look exactly the same
of the local activities of paddling and kayaking. “When we as a branch in Toronto and one in Vancouver, they aren’t
designed that hotel that was our iconography. We have wood going to work,” she says.
slats that are like ripples that created waves all across the “But while there has to be continuity, there also needs
ceiling and flowed down behind reception over images of to be some sensitivity to the regional way finishes reson-
kayaks and boats we had printed onto wood veneer.” ate with people. It has to do with not just the culture of
the region, but also the way the light flows in different re-
For a hotel in Newfoundland on “iceberg al- gions of the country. Colours that would look wonderfully
ley,” MacGregor borrowed heavily from the scenery in handsome in Toronto just don’t work at all in Vancouver.”
her design. “We referenced some ice and some snow and Kasper thinks the market is always looking for distinc-
tied into the whole iceberg aesthetic into the carpet.” tions between television design versus real design. “Tele-
Since Mac Interior Design has carpet designs creat- vision design opens up our eyes to what is out there,” add-
ed for clients around the country, it is aware of sensibil- ing the design community is “secretly” watching HGTV.
ities with this material in particular. “There’s a carpet “Then what a design consultation with a professional
manufacturer in Quebec — and their designers are from designer does,” Kasper says. “It’s not any different than
Quebec — and they have a dramatically different colour how the medical profession is conveyed on television ver-
sensibility to the rest of the country. They’ll bring these sus the reality of the medical profession. Or the law pro-
carpets out and we’ll say, ‘we can’t use that. That’s or- fession on television versus the reality. You see the titil-
ange, that’s wild, what are you doing?’ lating points.”
“But in Quebec, that works. They definitely have a dif- Well-designed spaces, he notes, are both good-looking
ferent design aesthetic there.” and functional. “So, thanks HGTV for exposing design
At McGregor Design Group, there is a sensation that and creating not only an exposure but almost an entitle-
design quality is sinking in with consumers’ thought ment of the population to well-designed spaces.”
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Challengers Award
winners announced at IWF
At IWF 2018 — the International
Woodworking Fair in Atlanta, Ga. —
the winners of the 2018 Challengers Doucet Machineries won a
Distinguished Achievement Award Challengers Award for its Alyx, an
were announced. The awards promote automated clamp carrier loader
the development of innovative technolo- system for high volume gluing
gy in woodworking machinery, supplies application, panel preparation,
and services for the furniture, kitchen loading and unloading. Pictured
cabinets, architectural woodwork, Josef Junker, left, and Andy are co-owner Pascal Doucet (left),
store fixture, upholstery or specialty Gombaz, of Felder Canada, with Mario Asselin, technical engineer,
and general wood product industries. the Felder Group’s Challengers and Danny Pelletier, co-owner.
Among a field of 23 finalists, the 2018 Award for its Format-4 creator
award-winning companies and prod- 950, a compact, automated CNC operator managing the material input
ucts included Doucet Machineries of machining centre. and output. Felder Group won for its
Daveluyville, Que., and Felder Group, Format-4 creator 950, a compact, auto-
based in Hall, Austria. Doucet won for chine. The complete cycle time for one mated CNC machining centre that fits
its Alyx product, an automated clamp loading and glue application sequence into 54 square feet. The unit machines
carrier loader system for high volume is estimated at 80 seconds or less with panels horizontally for easier infeed, of-
gluing application, panel preparation, only one operator at the panel prepa- fering more flexibility in handling larg-
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and loading and unloading of the ma- ration position, with another partial er panel sizes, the company says.
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Next Wave Cabinetmaking students attend the exhibit every year to sup-
hires accounts manager show their best port the program and chat with stu-
Perrysburg, Ohio-based Next Wave Georgian College in Barrie, Ont., dents about potential employment op-
Automation has hired Scott Bau- has completed its sixth annual Stu- portunities. The exhibit is one of
meister for its newly-created na- dent Cabinetmaking Exhibit where several events that cabinetmaking
tional accounts manager position students have throughout the year to
covering Canada and the U.S. Cit- develop and showcase their skills, the
ing rapidly increasing sales along college says.
with a host of planned, new product
innovations, the company says it cre- Young wood industry
ated the position to facilitate growth. professionals honoured
Baumeister will Sponsored by Wood Machinery
also be a key Manufacturers
decision-maker of America
for product (WMMA)
sourcing and the students displayed individual piec- based in Forest
product develop- es. The Cabinetmaking Techniques Hill, Md., and
ment, it adds. students come directly from high organized by
Baumeister joins school as well as from all ages and Woodworking
Next Wave after walks of life, including retired mili- Network, the 40
Scott spending the tary veterans. Solomon King (pic- Under 40 Class
Baumeister previous 21 tured), age 48, a Red Seal certified Jeremy Funk of 2018 has been
years at Rockler stone mason and sculptor, enrolled in announced and
Woodworking and Hardware. Next the program because he wanted to includes two honourees from Cana-
Wave manufactures a line of CNC transition his carving skills into wood da. Individuals under the age of 40
machines for hobbyists, makers and as an artistic medium to create one-of- are nominated by an other industry
small wood shops. a-kind pieces. Cabinetmaking alumni professional for the honour. Jer-
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Heesemann
CNC edgebanders,
widebelt sanders,
Italpresse pressing solutions,
emy Funk, the sales and marketing Akhurst grand opening Sawstop table saws and Belfab dust
manager at Elias Woodwork and to feature live demos collection systems. Complimentary
Manufacturing based in Winkler, food and refreshments, along with
Man., and Alex (Arash) Khosravian, industry experts to answer questions,
of Chic Carpentry & Cabinetry, lo- will be available.
cated in Newmarket, Ont., were ac-
knowledged at a ceremony at IWF Drechsel Business Interiors
2018 in Atlanta, Ga. Funk was cho- announces succession
sen for showing his ongoing dedi- Toronto, Ont.-based Drechsel
cation and leadership over the past Business Interiors, announced that it
20 years with Elias Woodwork. His is moving forward with its succession
nominator stated that Funk “has plan and that Tova Drechsel has been
devoted time to ensure his fellow Akhurst Machinery will be hosting appointed president. Tova Drechsel
employees are well trained, properly an open house November 14-15 to succeeds company founder Fred
equipped for their careers and ready commemorate the grand opening of Drechsel who has stepped down
for success.” An immigrant to Can- its new facility in Mississauga, Ont. from operations. Drechsel Business
ada in 2005, Khosravian, he found The focus of this event will be to Interiors is a Toronto workplace
work at a woodworking company showcase new machinery technologies furnishings dealer, representing
before opening Chic Carpentry in for both the solid wood and panel internationally recognized furniture
2010, with one employee. Since then, processing market sectors. The design and manufacturing firm,
the custom woodworking firm has company will have live demonstrations Knoll, as well as more than 100
grown to nine employees. of machines such as Omnitech CNC other vendors. The company also
announced the appointment of
Christopher White as vice president,
Italian furniture maker expands to U.S. operations. In this capacity White
Arper, a maker of home and office also highlighted the logistical will lead the company’s project
furniture based in Monastier advantages of operations in High management, warehousing and
di Treviso, Italy, has opened Point, including efficient positioning installation operations.
a 100,200-square-foot manu- to receive Italian material
facturing facility in High Point, deliveries, a central positioning to Made in Canada
N.C. The website fights tariffs
announcement The website MadeinCanada.
comes soon after ca based in in Uxbridge, Ont.,
the company has been created to list products
opened its latest made by Canadian-owned firms
showroom in Los such as furniture, flooring and
Angeles. Claudio consumer goods, that include wood
Feltrin, Arper components. Among 270 firms listed
board chairman in the database are office furniture
and son of maker Natalex Manufacturing
company founder, of Cambridge, Ont., RTA and
said the company sees incredible distribute to key domestic markets assembled furniture maker South
potential in the U.S. as one of the of New York and Los Angeles, and Shore Furniture of Sainte-Croix,
fastest-growing and most relevant the quick shipping times customers Que., and Prairie Sticks Bats, a
markets for design in the world. In have come to expect in the current producer of ash, maple ad birch
an interview with Architectural e-commerce era. Arper, founded baseball bats, of Lacomb, Alta.
Digest, Feltrin says High Point is in 1989, builds chairs, tables, and Co-founder Tyler Campbell says
the ideal base of manufacturing furnishings for community, work, that he and his partners built the
operations for the company, as the and home environments. In addition site in response to what he sees as
area’s workers boast exceptional to Los Angeles, the company has “hostile” U.S. tariffs.
craftsmanship skills and North American showrooms in
professional work ethics. Feltrin Chicago and New York City.
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assets with high emotional value.
Law 4. To help your executor avoid an
administrative headache.
Important documents such as
your annual income tax returns
and your monthly account state-
ments will be very helpful to
Don’t ignore this component your executor when they ad-
Digital assets minister your estate. Electronic
bills need to be discovered and
paid by your executor to prevent
late fees and cancellations. As
W e draft wills and name execu-
tors to carry out our wishes for
our assets when we die. Digital as-
your digital assets is because
planning today makes it easier
for your executor and family
important records increasingly
become paperless and online
banking and investing becomes
sets are becoming ever more present members in the future. If you do ever more prevalent, it is im-
in our lives but not plan ahead, you risk leaving perative that your executor has
are often over- your executor with a logistical access your electronic records
looked in es- and administrative nightmare after you are die in order to
tate planning. as they struggle to take an prevent a major administrative
Take a mo- inventory of your digital assets, headache and potential losses to
ment to con- attempt to access those assets your estate.
template your and accounts and to guess how 5. To protect your privacy.
digital assets. you would have wanted them Your e-mails, the files on your
Consider your handled. computer and the contents of
digital devices 2. To monetize online assets that your social network accounts
Sabrina Gismondi — your desk- have financial value. may reveal relationships or
top, laptop, Your digital assets may have interests that you have that are
tablet and smartphone — and all of significant financial value. Blogs not widely or otherwise known.
the files saved on them and all of the and websites may be generating Consider any digital assets that
accounts you access with them. The income, digital currencies could you would rather keep private
list starts to grow quickly when you be cashed out for hard currency, and that your executor should
account for your e-mails and e-mail online shopping accounts and delete rather than distribute
accounts, digital photographs, vid- gaming accounts may have a after you die. When it comes to
eos and music, social media accounts, positive balance, and loyalty social media accounts, consider
electronic banking and investing ac- rewards points may have accu- whether you want to leave a
counts, digital currency, tax prepara- mulated significant value. Your digital footprint by having
tion service accounts, file sharing ac- executor will be responsible for your accounts memorialized or
counts, online shopping, auction and collecting, accessing and liqui- if you would prefer that all of
gaming accounts, loyalty reward pro- dating these digital assets when your social media accounts be
grams and any blogs, websites and you are gone. shut down and deleted. Online
domain names you may have. 3. To salvage your digital assets accounts that are left stagnant
If you have even just a few of the that have sentimental value. could be susceptible to hacking
items on this list, you should be con- Treasured photographs are now and identity theft.
sidering what will happen to it all af- more likely to be stored on your
ter you are gone and make sure that smartphone, tablet, hard drive, How do you “do”
you provide instructions to your ex- cloud storage server or online digital estate planning?
ecutor, the trusted person that will photo sharing website rather Digital estate planning is about tak-
be responsible for your estate. than printed and placed in a ing steps to organize your digital as-
photo album. While hardcopies sets by providing instructions and
Why should you care can be easily passed on, it may authorizations to your executor. Digi-
about estate planning be difficult for your loved ones tal estate planning can be done in
for your digital assets? to find and access digital assets three steps:
1. To make it easy on your execu- that have high sentimental value. First, make a list of your digital as-
tor and family members. Consider leaving a plan in place sets. Create an inventory of account
The top reason why you should to make it easy for your executor login usernames and passwords, indi-
care about estate planning for to access and collect your digital cate where the account can be located
12 WOOD INDUSTRY SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2018and include answers to your security count can be accessed and controlled. odically without having to formally
questions. Update this list regularly It may be a breach of the provider’s update your will. Keep the memo in
and include it as part of your digital terms to share your password with a safe place and ideally together with
assets memorandum (see step three). others. Some sites may allow your your will.
Second, grant your executor au- executor unlimited access to your When preparing the memo, think
thority over your digital assets. Your account, others only when certain re- about what digital assets you actually
will can include a clause that gives quirements are met and others may own. You may have accounts that con-
your executor power over your digi- allow only limited or no access at all. tain virtual property such as an on-
tal assets, including the power to ac- A complicating factor is that most line music library, podcasts or ebook
cess, obtain, use, control and transfer social media sites are not governed collection. Do not assume that you
or delete your digital devices and as- by Canadian law. Ensure that your have the same rights to this digital
sets. Remember that a good estate plan is consistent with the providers’ content as you do the physical version
plan does not only consists of a will terms of service to avoid difficulties of the asset. You may have a licence to
document but also includes powers of for your executor when they try to use these digital assets and may not
attorney to be used in the event that implement your plan. actually own the asset itself, in which
you become incapable of managing Third, instruct your executor what case your executor may not be able to
your own affairs. Your power of at- to do with your digital assets. Con- pass on these collections if you do not
torney for property can also contain sider preparing a digital assets mem- actually own them.
similar clauses. orandum that provides instructions Acknowledge your digital assets
When providing your executor on how to deal with your digital as- as an important part of your estate
authorization, be aware of the terms sets. For each digital asset, provide plan. Taking simple steps now will
of service agreements that govern corresponding instructions and spe- assist your executor tremendously
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Digital blow out the dust and clean the com-
ponents once in a while…
Backup
What would happen if you lost all your
libraries of CNC files or your cus-
tomer account information? Can you
Tech vulnerability keeping you up at night? spell DISASTER? I’m sure you’re
Protect yourself getting chills down your spine read-
ing these words but when is the last
time you performed a backup of your
files? Many of my clients work on dust
I f you’re like most modern manufac-
turers, you rely more and more on
technology for your most important
nology is growing faster than most
of our abilities to comprehend its in-
ner workings. Technology is here to
filled outdated computers with obso-
lete software. At best they should ex-
pect a breakdown to happen and yet
tasks. Your mobile phone, Wi-Fi, make our lives easier after all, so it they don’t regularly backup their files.
email, website, goes without saying that our custom- There is simple technology to help you
the software ers and our partners are expecting in this department. Software such as
on your CNC, us to do more with less effort, yet the Acronis, EaseUS and Paragon auto-
even the cloud opposite is often true. This is making mate your backups and offer extra se-
storage ser- us increasingly impatient when prob- cure cloud backup for a small fee.
vice where all lems do arise, and our levels of stress
your files are seem to increase exponentially. Cloud storage
stockpiled are To make things worse, with every Some people are still ambivalent about
now integral new advance in technology it seems sending their data to the cloud for
to your work we are more vulnerable to hackers. In safe keeping. Those people might also
Alain Albert life DNA. If this ever-expanding digital universe, prefer to keep their money in a shoe-
you woke up the predator becomes stronger (hack- box under their bed rather than trust
one morning and just one of those ers are more knowledgeable on the in- an ATM (Automated Teller Machine).
were wiped out, it would be a night- ner workings of the technology) while Microsoft OneDrive, Google Drive,
mare. Technology is not immune to simple users become progressively Amazon Drive, DropBox and iCloud
failure. Are you doing enough to safe- more defenseless because of their in- all offer reasonably priced cloud drive
guard your technology and to main- ability to learn fast enough. subscriptions that are easy to access
tain it in good working condition? The days of simple identity theft and nearly 100% secure. All of them
You’ve most likely experienced an pale in comparison with the dangers work on the premise that you keep
event when one of your technologies we will face when our machines and a physical copy of your file on your
had failed and you were left scram- systems are connected in the internet hard drive and also a synchronized
bling, spending hours trying to find of things (IoT). copy in the cloud. The advantage is
ways to resolve the issue. You were Ensure that you can avoid criti- that there is always a backup copy of
probably on the phone with customer cal failures and that you can recover your files somewhere and the files are
support and on search engines trying quickly should they happen by follow- accessible from anywhere on any de-
to find out how to get back to your ing these simple rules: vice provided you can remember your
normal state of affairs. When the login information of course. Evolving
problem is finally resolved you’re left Maintenance from this technology is file sharing
wondering how vulnerable you are to Taking good care of your computers and collaboration tools that allow for
forces completely out of your control. and other digital equipment is cru- a team of users to work on the same
There is no question that comput- cial. Imagine what would happen if projects while maintaining proper
ers, the internet and other digital you never changed the oil in your car? version control.
technologies have made our lives The same is true for your computers.
easier and our work more efficient Performing software updates and Tech partnerships
however these technologies have the patches, security updates and scan- Did you know the Rolls Royce engine
potential to break down and cause ning the hard drives for viruses and in the aircraft you flew on doesn’t be-
major disruptions. This problem is malware, cleaning up old programs long to the airline? Rolls Royce owns
becoming more commonplace as we and drive defragmentation should all all its engines, it monitors them re-
move into an ever increasingly con- be done on a regular basis. Don’t wait motely, schedules maintenance and
nected tech ecosystem. six months or 10,000 kms, implement advises the airlines on best practices
Mainstream adoption of new tech- a weekly maintenance routine. Also, and fuel efficiency. They charge an
14 WOOD INDUSTRY SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2018hourly fee for the use of the engine. Plan for the worst might even be a good idea to have
Does your technology provider give It might be a good idea to have a plan some of those names in your rolodex
you that level of service? just in case. Do you have someone who for when you need to outsource some
It’s time to ditch the equipment can take on your production in case production in the busy season when
peddler and find a tech partner. More you’re out of commission? The worse you’re swamped.
important than the gears and motors thing would be to leave your custom-
and circuit boards that you purchase ers in a lurch because if you don’t Professionally trained in
is the knowledge that if your machine come up with a solution, they will. architecture, Alain Albert has
breaks down, your technology part- There are a good number of ser- worked in wood as an entrepreneur,
ner has your back and will make sure vice providers both locally and online in production management,
that you’re up and running in a man- that can help you with such matters in design and as a digital
ner of hours, at most, days. Too often as designing, programming, CNC manufacturing consultant.
I’ve seen an unfortunate manufac- cutting, assembly, delivery, etc… It Contact: aalbert@wimediainc.ca.
turer go down for weeks while they
had to fly a part or a technician from
Europe. Worse yet, the blame goes
around from the equipment to the
software to the tooling to the mate-
In a class of its own.
rial and then back to the equipment…
and nothing gets done.
Breakdowns do happen, I’ve had Wood is writing history:
my share, but I kid you not, my part-
ner is on the phone, on Skype, parts Yesterday - Today - Tomorrow
are FedExed overnight and I’m back
running in no time, every time. My In 1492, Christopher Columbus
tech partner is an invaluable part of crossed into history with
my business team. Choose your tech
nothing but a dream and ships
partner judiciously.
crafted of solid wood.
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Education is the greatest weapon
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potential and you become more
confident about the limits of what
you can do with it. When you mas-
ter a technology, you can perform
wonders but you can also maintain
it, fix it, modify it and do all sort
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www.woodindustry.ca WOOD INDUSTRY 15PROFILE: Morbi Design and
Reain Custom Projects,
Toronto, Ont.
From Cuphead to Kijiji
Flexibility helps custom wood shop
thrive in inner city
Exposure to different environments and conversations promote what each other does.”
can take you anywhere. The origin story for this shop The two were looking separately for a shop and found
profile began at an animation artist presentation for the each other on Kijiji, the social media sales platform. “It
Cuphead video game at OCAD University in Toronto, turns out we work well together,” says Morbi.
Ont., last winter, where the designers and animators be- Reain’s immediate background comes from film in-
hind the visuals were speaking. dustry carpentry. Prior to that he had some cabinet shop
Ali Morbi of Morbi Design constructed sets for the hit work, as well as general construction, renovation and
Xbox One and PC game and demonstrated how he cre- custom home building experience. While he held an aero-
ated these to the college crowd. Afterwards, it was clear space engineering degree, Reain felt ocupationally frus-
this was a talented woodworker with more to say. trated by that discipline. “It turns out you don’t get to
Morbi, it turns out, has a close business associate, build anything actually with your own hands,” he laments.
Alan Reain of Reain Custom Projects, who share a Up until meeting Reain, most of what Morbi did was
1,200-square-foot rented space in Toronto’s Junction Tri- hobby work. “I left high school and I just started work-
angle neighbourhood. Their businesses have had differ- ing on my own,” says Morbi. “I worked every manner of
ent names since they moved in together at the shop space job you can think of and was a photographer at one point.
in the spring of 2015, and still do — but that sounds like Then I turned into a fabricator slowly but surely.”
that could change in the not-too-distant future. Morbi’s parents had a sign shop that he took advantage
Morbi calls Reain his partner. “We have two differ- of: “Eventually when they retired they bestowed upon me
ent companies but if I get a job that I need help on I hire the vast majority of equipment. That was my transition.
Alan and vice versa,” Morbi says. Both agree that they’re I don’t think I would have been able to afford a $100,000
thinking about forming one company. machine right off the bat.”
According to Reain, “I think that it’s at the point now That machine is a well-used Axys model 4008 CNC
where we need a common brand that kind of lets us both router that is still going strong. “It has been super useful
16 WOOD INDUSTRY SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2018— I think we have utilized this thing in ways that people have a good impression of you. It keeps building on itself.”
usually don’t.” CNC-enabled woodworking often draws people in,
Primarily the CNC router is used to create cabinetry, according to Reain. “I guess the type of people who are
but it also produces a moderate amount of metal work, looking for something a little more creative, a little more
along with three-dimensional prototyping for engineer- technical,” he says. “And a little more problem-solving
ing firms and movie props. and innovative-related, rather than conventional stuff
The technical capacity of their “wild west” inner-city that could be done at a higher volume.”
shop, itself an increasing rarity, gives the two an advan- A small shop may not turn over large, lucrative jobs,
tage over local competitors. Adds but an agile shop means that many
Reain, “a lot of the shops that have customers can be served across a
CNC capability are out of the city.” large variety of work. But being
too agile can have its downside,
Their multidisciplinary approach such as when a project is accepted
also increases competitiveness, that others passed on.
according to Morbi. “Some shops One architect was looking for
may say ‘we can build a cabinet help on a particularly complex job,
for this project, but we can’t do the says Reain. “Frankly they were
acrylic.’ Or, ‘we can do the acrylic, intimidated by it because it was a
but we can’t do the electrical pro- pretty tricky on-site-project. If it
gramming.’ We just say that we wasn’t carried out with a high level
will take care of it all.” of detail and pretty successful exe-
When they moved in into the cution, it would just have not been
shop, there was literally nothing, that nice. We were foolish enough
according to Reain. “Our equip- to say that we could do that.”
ment has upgraded and changed a
Alan Reain, left, and Ali Morbi met each
lot, along with the configuration of other through a Kijiji ad. Below, the pair The two have combined agile, on-
the space,” he says. “This wasn’t a uses photos for efficient takeoffs. site build capabilities with flexible,
situation where we got a huge bank on-site consultation skills.
loan and bought everything and On one project, they wrapped
went into a huge pile of debt,” says the centre column of a client’s
Reain. “It was incremental in fig- split-level house in white oak. They
uring out what we needed and what had to cut it in around existing
people would pay us to do.” stairs, so it involved some CNC
Most of the jobs have been re- machining, according to Reain.
ferrals through people they had Measurements had to be done
worked with in the past. “The guy manually, but photographs also
that referred this prop to us,” says had to be scaled, brought into soft-
Reain, pointing at a table under construction, “I worked ware and then laid out for their CNC machine.
at his shop when I first moved into Toronto. The house “At this point,” says Morbi, “photographing things and
that we just finished up working on was an architect who applying measurements on a portable tablet is useful be-
was referred by the owner of another shop that I used to cause you can show it to the client and have the concept
work for. There have been a few of those.” bounce back and forth on-site, until it’s exactly what they
Being sociable is key to business growth, according to want.
Morbi. “You can talk to someone and they can know and “That iterative process happens way faster than it
like you,” he says, “and suddenly they act as an extension used to. Instead of trying to draw something up and hop-
of your sales ability. Someone else can mention something ing they can conceptualize the idea.”
offhandedly and they can say ‘oh yeah I know someone Says Reain, “it’s way easier to take site measurements
who can do it.’ than trying to draw out a crappy hand sketch on the fly.
“Which I find more valuable than a kind of an anony- Just take a photo and dimension the photo instead.”
mous ad. A potential customer can respond to these but Luckily for Morbi and Reain, the cost of the downtown
don’t really know what to expect from the maker — us.” real estate squeeze hasn’t caught up with them yet, with
Reain believes working on building a good reputation the location providing benefits that suburban shops aren’t
is paying off. “It seems to be an upward spiral,” he says, likely to provide. An across-the-alleyway interior design
“in that when you have a good reputation you get good firm neighbour now does business with them.
clients who want good work, and who are going to pay ap- “And,” says Morbi, “we have actually gotten a couple of
propriately for it. You can serve them really well and they clients who have just walked by these doors.”
www.woodindustry.ca WOOD INDUSTRY 17WOOD
But ultimately, the objects that get
Design made have to be dealt with as they
age. The tricky dilemma of steel re-
inforced concrete is a very pertinent
example. It has a finite lifespan, out-
doors, as falling-down bridges illus-
trate. Old cars get crushed. Clothes
Preventing waste is a responsibility get donated to charity, where they
Right to repair disrupt third-world economies. It’s
not an issue that is easy to be defini-
tive upon.
But the principle of fixing things,
T o be a designer is to be very lucky.
It’s our job to dream and to turn
these dreams into reality. What a
This is either by intention of by
a lack of attention. The former may
be questionable but the latter is
and its desirability, endures. It seems
to make both ethical and economic
sense, and even political sense, how-
privilege. We get to impose our vision hardly excusable. ever challenging the issue is. In fact,
onto the world Of course, not all of us care to there is a movement in support of
around us. repair things. We prefer shiny new this, the ‘Right to Repair’. Legisla-
That’s pretty things, either to enjoy their novelty tion has already been enacted and
good. or to enjoy how their acquisition re- more will surely be, despite the irony
Of course, flects on us. Having new things is of what could be considered a conser-
it’s not quite a display of wealth, which is, more vative notion calling for more govern-
so simple. importantly, a display of success. ment interference.
There are But there can be something fun-
many ob- damentally gratifying in keeping In order that the things that get
stacles and things working. The objects we use made be made in such a way as to
Paul Epp challenges, as take on a novel patina from our use be reparable it must be considered
we well know. of them. They come to reflect us in at the design stage. Is it? Are de-
But the basic truth of this prevails. different ways and it can be sat- signers taking any responsibility
I wonder how often we pause to re- isfying to keep them near. It’s as here? Are we paying attention? The
flect on our good fortune, in this re- though they become our friends, enthusiasm for 3D printing may be
gard? We ought to. and loyalty may make it undesir- a case in point. It is considered the
Its axiomatic though, that privi- able to dispose of them. Sometimes vanguard of intelligent industrial
lege comes with responsibilities. And we can, but we often can’t. manufacturing. Rather than simple
we have many. We make decisions and tools being used to make complex
all of them come with consequences. The issue of repairing may seem objects, as was initially the case, it
Some are not so welcome. But that’s kind of old fashioned. And it is. The is all about complex tools making
our job; to make decisions and some currents of our culture seem to simple objects. But has any consid-
will be tough ones. Sometimes it’s a be carrying us ever further away. eration of reparability been included
question of who will make the calls, Whereas once we acquired things to in this utopian scenario?
and if we don’t then who will? Who own them, now we may be more likely It’s curious how some old things
better than us? to access things in order to experi- have gained value because they can
One issue that I have been ponder- ence them. Ownership may no longer be fixed, like old trucks in the Ca-
ing seems to have lots of design im- be the relevant criteria. This is very nadian north. Where do you find
plications. It’s the issue of the repair- obvious in how we consume music the fancy diagnostic equipment in
ability of the objects that industry (Spotify?), or movies (Netflix?). Soft- the bush?
makes. And that’s by far the majority ware is now often accessed without Designers have a role to play here
of what we consume. We buy a lot and ownership: pay to play. The automo- and a responsibility. Let’s see it.
when these things no longer work, we tive world is taking a serious look
toss them. What choice do we have? at a subscription model. Customers Paul Epp is a professor emeritus at
Most things are not designed with would pay a fee for which they would OCAD University, and former chair
the option of repairs. When is the have access to a car, without any sem- of its Industrial Design department.
last time you fixed a pair of shoes? blance of ownership. This model has
Or a kitchen appliance? A cell phone? many applications and implications,
Most things are simply not fixable. from clothes to furniture and so on....
18 WOOD INDUSTRY SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2018100 percent of its rigorous internal
test procedures by the quality con-
trol department.
Salice makes its own assembly
machines in order create the final,
finished hinge assemblies ready
for shipping. “Automation is im-
portant for quality control,” says
Oliva. Skilled machine operators
are trained internally in the com-
pany’s technical department.
Factory tour reveals the story behind Such equipment as punching
Salice hinges By Mike Edwards, contributing editor machines can be around as long as
20 years, but the company primar-
The Novedrate hinge factory of Arturo Salice S.p.A. is ily relies on newer, faster, more flexible machinery — and
nestled in the leafy hills north of Milan, Italy, and just for good reason. “The oldest punching machine is suitable
south of the fashionable, rich-and-famous residences that for low-volume, big parts,” says Oliva, “but it takes a day
dot Lake Como. But don’t let the picturesque scenery fool to change the die.”
you — inside is a sophisticated facility that would be the All tooling for steel parts at the 400-employee plant is
envy of many manufacturers. made in-house by Salice to ensure quality standards for
The 240,000 square metre Novedrate site is accompa- its punching and bending dies. The same applies for plas-
nied by Salice plants elsewhere in Italy for production of tic and zinc-aluminum alloy parts, where the company
sliding doors (Belluno) and for drawer runners (Calcinelli creates mold dies that go into dedicated injection molding
di Saltara). According to Alberto Oliva, export manager machines for each material. During die production, elec-
with Salice and my tour guide, the plants are strategical- trical discharge machines can lap smooth dies to 5-micron
ly placed to support other local manufacturers. “Salice tolerances. And to make sure that life expectancy of the
manufacturing sites are near furniture makers,” he says, expensive tooling is maximized, and quality maintained,
with an added mutual benefit beyond supply chain logis- the company also has a die maintenance shop.
tics. “We’re also near them so we can listen to them for A steel hardening department at Novedrate keeps
design ideas. Italian design tends to be innovative.” hinge parts such as springs produced at the proper
strength, flexibility and hardness. Each steel part re-
The company was founded in 1926 and filed the first quires the correct amount of time at the right tempera-
world patent of a concealed furniture hinge in 1957. Salice ture, so hinge movements perform to quality control and
now holds over 600 patents, has 80 employees in R&D and customer expectations, according to Oliva. “That way the
produces over 5,000 products across all of its lines. furniture is under stress, not the hinges.”
Currently Novedrate production includes Salice’s Wind A cleaning and degreasing area also keeps the prod-
lift-up mechanism, Pacta hinge for fall-flap doors, Silentia ucts looking their best, according to Oliva. “We salt test
soft-closing hinges, and Air inset concealed hinges. samples to inspect for rust,” he says, adding that a ma-
Inside the plant, Salice works with steel, Zamak rine customer is one of Salice’s largest.
zinc-aluminum alloys and plastics to create hinges that There is pride in what Oliva says about Italian-made
employ multiple components in a single product, often products. “The components are different from what you
with multiple materials. Any new supplier has to pass would find in Chinese products.”
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