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Xylexpo, the biennial woodworking technologies and supplies event, is expecting more than 500,000 exhibitors for the 2012 show, which will be held Tuesday, May 8, through Saturday, May 12. 
Organizers of the woodworking industry show say they have 514,177 exhibitors from 34 countries registered, on a net surface area of 36,066 square meters. The show will be held in halls 1-3 and 2-4 of the Fieramilano fairgrounds in Rho, Italy. For more information, visit www.xylexpo.com.

On April 26 and 27, Biesse America held its spring One2One event at the company’s Charlotte, N.C., facility and showroom. 

Customers saw machinery demonstrations at Biesse’s spring One2One event.

Customers, prospects and partners gathered for the two-day open house, which had machine demonstrations as well as seminars on software and emerging woodworking technology solutions. For more information on this and other events, go to www.biesseamerica.com.

So far, 512 exhibitors have registered to attend Xylexpo 2012 (www.xylexpo.com), the biennial international exhibition of woodworking technology and furniture industry supplies, to be held Tuesday, May 8 to Saturday, May 12. 
Xylexpo, which will be held at the FieraMilano Rho Fairgrounds in Italy, will see nearly 35 percent of exhibitors coming from abroad, mainly from Germany, China and Turkey, organizers say. Based on numbers from pre-registration, which ended April 12, the exhibition will have nearly 50,000 visitors.
Exhibitions will span more than 344,000 square feet and four halls. Panel processing machines and technology will be exhibited in Halls 1 and 3; Hall 2 will feature solid wood machining solutions; and Hall 4 is dedicated to suppliers and primary operation equipment and solutions. 
Organizers say the exhibition will effectively show that there are possible answers to doing business in tough economic times, represented by better-performing and less energy-hungry machines, technology that can integrate several operations into one production cycle, and equipment manufactured with great attention to the composition of parts and aggregates to generate scale economies. New to Xylexpo 2012, the “MatchMaking” platform will provide a tool to help visitors plan their meetings with exhibitors and plan agendas during the exhibition. 

The Biomass Thermal Energy Council (www.biomassthermal.org) and Resource Professionals Group (www.resourceprofessionalsgroup.com) recently held a meeting with 24 of North America’s major biomass thermal equipment manufacturers. The half-day event was the second in a series of meetings to encourage open dialogue between industry leaders, geared towards identifying common impediments to growth and developing new networks and opportunities for biomass thermal applications.  
“I put the ball in their court,” said John Karakash of RPG, the workshop’s facilitator. “These companies were presented with the proven benefits of standardizing the market for fuels and technologies. After Wednesday’s meeting, I feel confident that there will be more honest discussion on how to apply the tools that many alternative energy sectors already have, but that are underutilized by the biomass thermal industry.” 
Discussions during the roundtable focused on directing industry attention towards manufacturing and fuel standards to increase acceptance by consumers, engineers and project developers. Sunil Nanjundaram, director of certification programs from the Air Conditioning Heating and Refrigeration Institute, made the case for biomass thermal manufacturers to take advantage of certification agencies to attract interest in biomass thermal energy from the architectural and engineering sectors.
“I’m encouraged by the new connections, conversations and building momentum from Wednesday’s session,” said Joseph Seymour, executive director of BTEC. “Manufacturers began developing solutions that expand their market share. That is something we can get behind.”

At the International Woodworking Fair 2012 in Atlanta, SCM Group North America (www.scmgroup-usa.com) will exhibit machinery for the woodworking industry from August 22-25.
The company will display entry-level machines to the most advanced solutions for panel processing, solid-wood manufacturing, plastic manufacturing and production of non-ferrous metals. 
“As the economy is starting to rebound, now is the time for our industry to position itself at a more competitive level by reducing manufacturing costs while increasing flexibility and production through technology. What better place to see current technology than IWF,” said John Gangone, president.

Xylexpo, the biennial international exhibition of woodworking technology and furniture industry supplies, recently launched its visitor campaign and opened pre-registration for the event.
The visitors campaign includes social networking efforts, newsletters and mailings to those interested in attending the woodworking industry event. Xylexpo’s preregistration service is also now open. Industry professionals interested in visiting Xylexpo may go online to www.xylexpo.com to receive an email and coupon that can be scanned at the event’s gate. 
Xylexpo will take place May 8-12, in the Milan, Italy, exhibition center Fieramilano-Rho. 

With more than four months before the woodworking technology and furniture industry supplies event Xylexpo, the show’s general manager, Paolo Zanibon, says registration figures are positive with more than 400 exhibitors and a current exhibition area of about 30,000 net square meters.
Xylexpo will be held Tuesday, May 8, 2012, through Saturday, May 12, 2012 in the Milan, Italy, exhibition center, Fieramilano-Rho. The show will extend over four halls, with halls one and three for panel processing, hall two for solid wood machining, and hall four for primary operations.
Promotional activities for the show were recently launched, and will be fully up and running at the beginning of 2012. Promotional activities use a traditional communication campaign complemented with “personal” contacts using opportunities presented from new business-to-business communication tools, according to show organizers. For more information on Xylexpo or to register, please visit www.xylexpo.com.

Vollmer of America recently hosted a three-day event at its Carnegie, Penn. location focused on PCD technology. The “PCD Days” event included demonstrations of new machine technology and guest speakers from major PCD suppliers.
Arndt Hauger, PCD product manager, and Alexander Schmid, PCD technician, highlighted some of the latest Vollmer technology, with demonstrations of two fully automated QXD200 machines to explain various machine options and processing PCD drills. In addition to the hands-on machine demonstrations, Hauger presented information on the ability to process drills and end mills using ExLevel software, a 3-D modeling package that allows machine operators or tool designers to create a virtual tool prior to any processing in the machine.
Speakers representing Zoller, Megadiamond, Element Six, Diamond Innovations, American Superabrasives and GM Powertrain discussed other specific items of interest to the 70 attendees. Werner Lueken of Zoller began the presentations discussing current trends that Zoller has seen in measurement requirements at various end users and tool producers, and Matt Collier of Megadiamond followed with a discussion of the V-tec end mill. Other companies discussed new tooling products, along with information on tool processing and PCD tool requirements.