PFM Production Winter '06 Issue

Choosing the Right Underpinner
Advice from equipment manufacturers on buying and using production joining machines. This article covers durability, clamping, air supply, stack vs. multi-channel nailing, programmable memory machines, bar code scanning, machine stands and wings, operator use, adjustable fences, service and maintenance, and more. Read this online.

What’s Hot in Interiors
New designs as well as evolving traditional styles are changing popular interior looks and the market for contract framing. This article presents the latest colors and design trends as seen at the latest Fall Market at High Point. Read this online.

Automate Your Canvas Stretching
Canvas-stretching machines can reduce your labor costs and speed up your production time dramatically. Find out why stretching machines make sense as well as what machines are available, if a stretching machine is right for you, canvas stretching characteristics, stretcher bars, stapling and working with canvas, and workplace considerations when stretching canvas. Read this online.

Mass Producing Classic Frames
When a client is looking for high-quality frames at a modest price, polymer reproductions of classic frames finished in metal leaf can offer an upscale look at a very modest price. Read this online.

Who’s Copying Whom?
Copyright violations in China pose a danger for contract framing art buyers. The author, who owns a large production framing facility in China, cautions readers on how easy it is to become part of this problem. Read this online.

Overcoming Language Barriers
Today, production framers often need to use immigrant labor from different countries. Here are some steps you can take to minimize the language barriers that arise so that they don’t interfere with the production of quality products. Read this online.

Catalogs: The Latest Wall Art
A selection of catalogs from leading art publishers that supply the production framing market. These catalogs will offer you thousands of images to choose from. Read this online.

Canada’s Furniture Industry Seeks Chinese Tariffs
Claiming that a sudden rise in Chinese furniture imports over the past few years has done significant material harm, Canada’s furniture manufacturers are asking that safeguard tariffs be imposed on imports of household furniture from China. Read this online.

News
A look at New Orleans’ progress in reopening its hotels following Hurricane Katrina, Adhisa’s new U.S. facility in New Jersey, and plans for Quadrum/SACA. Read this online.

Do the Math!
Contributing Editor Jay Goltz says that high production doesn’t always mean high profits. Making $100,000 in picture framing depends as much on your ability to find business, your production facility, your management ability, and your financial position as much as it does on your size. Read this online.

Quick Tips
Easy ideas to improve production efficiency include tips on leveling double miter saw blades, maximizing MDF use, and an inexpensive way to get the water out of air lines. Read this online.

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