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MiTek, a building industry innovator and enabler, continues to uncover ways to improve efficiencies and transform the building industry with better building solutions. In its latest endeavor, MiTek has designed and built a custom piece of equipment to perform lateral-load testing on walls that...

For over 60 continuous years, Triad has helped builders produce hundreds of thousands of homes and multi-family dwellings on our cutting-edge machinery, making the American Dream a little more affordable for thousands of families. Once again, Triad is proving that we are not only pioneers but...

For Vekta USA, for our customers, suppliers, and the whole world, 2020 was a challenging year! For us, our strength as a global team was tested as we worked all hours to stay connected and support our US customers. In 2021, the pandemic is still causing chaos, with lumber shortages, supply chain...

I recently had a chance to visit Weinmann and Hundegger in Germany. Having partnerships that we can talk about and advertise is great, but having partnerships where we take steps to learn each other’s products, procedures, and people is what allows us to grow into a stronger machine vendor...

Our team is looking forward to attending BCMC next week! We will be debuting our new Platinum Series Automated Sheathing Bridge as well as showcasing a few other products at our booth #1233. We also will have our Wide Plate Framing Station located in MiTek’s booth #1201 for...

Have you heard the news? On September 10, Simpson Strong-Tie announced the formation of our new partnership. Officially, Simpson Strong-Tie has begun “a direct investment into the North America Hundegger equipment sales and service representative partner, Hundegger USA, LC.” So,...

According to a recent Wall Street Journal article written by Josh Mitchell, the economy is holding up quite well. “Resilient” is the word he used to describe the situation. “Households have plenty of money,” he quotes a chief economist as saying. While travel has...

In our May issue, I began this series From the Road, inviting everyone along the course of our cross-country adventure to connect with me for an in-person visit. Recently, I was pleased to tour Merrick Machine Co. in Alda, Nebraska, the home of Triad Machinery. Arriving at the industrial park...

Only a fortunate few in our industry knew Paul Robertson, who succumbed to Covid September 7. But those of us who did know that he stood for the values that has made this business great, honesty, humility, and hard work. Paul was a nuts-and-bolts guy in a nuts-and-bolts business. Yet he was able...

My rhetoric has been leaning towards the bearish side because buyers should not even be looking for lumber in October. The strategy of buying in late August to cover through early November was to avoid having to buy right now, the end of September. The lumber market should have been going up...