Agende on your calendar - AWFS Las Vegas 22. - 25. July 2025 -
International Wood Processing Fair and Furniture Manufacture
IWF attends to the worlds largest carpentry market with an unmatched presentation of the most recent technology in the industry that drives machinery, components, materials, trends, intellectual leadership and learning. The Commercial Fair and the Conference are the destination chosen by tens of thousands of attendees representing more than 30 commercial sectors. IWF attendees experience everything new and what comes in manufacturing, innovation, product design, learning, networks and emerging sectors in the largest carpentry event in North America. For the world carpentry community, from small workshops to large manufacturers, IWF is the place where the carpentry business does business.
IT MAY INTEREST YOU
Build between branches: a sample of contemporary architecture of houses in the trees
Despite their capricious appearance, houses in the trees offer a unique platform for structural innovations and design explorations.
Burned wood: the Japanese technique that beautifies and protects the material
Elegant, ecological and resistant: the wood treated with the millenary technique called Yakisugi challenges the weather and the passage of time. In the world of design and construction, a Japanese ancestral technique is gaining prominence. This is the Yakisugi (also known as Shou Sugi Ban), a method that consists in burning the surface of the wood to make it more resistant and attractive. Although it may seem contradictory, exposing wood to fire gives natural protection against moisture, insects and deterioration over time.
Deadly combo
The devastation of the natural forest not only occurs in Patagonia for fires. In the north of the country, deforestation advances because of a deadly combo: fire and unmoving clearing that causes companies to expand the agricultural border, especially for extensive livestock and soybean sowing.
