Benchmarking Tech Tour – Day 2 Visiting Febrü

Our visits today at high-end office furniture manufacturer Febrü, and medical furniture manufacturer Stiegelmeyer, provided great information. We gained knowledge of the incredible flexibility in these highly automated, highly productive, furniture plants.  We also enjoyed Jan’s famous roadside lunch!        

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Starting on our Benchmarking Tech Tour

We are making our way through Germany on our annual European Benchmarking Tour. Here are some things we encountered during our first day. We had a great day visiting Beckermann Küchen; a global high-end kitchen cabinet manufacturer using high gloss, textured melamines, metallics and other materials. We also toured Weeke’s production facility and HOMAG Group’s…

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Animal Planet’s TANKED Stars Shop Stiles for CNCs and Saws

GRAND RAPIDS, MI – Stiles Machinery hosted Wayde King and Brett Raymer, owners of Acrylic Tank Manufacturing and stars of Animal Planet’s reality television series TANKED, at its  corporate headquarters in Grand Rapids, Michigan today. The cast and crew filmed scenes for an episode featuring Stiles Machinery, and took time for media interviews as well as…

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