Congratulations to the
IWF 2010 Challengers Award Winners! 

The purpose of the Challengers Distinguished Achievement Award ® is to encourage and promote the development of innovative new technology in the field of woodworking machinery, supplies, and services for the furniture, kitchen cabinets, architectural woodwork, store fixture, upholstery, or specialty and general wood product industries.   For IWF 2010 the competition had 80 entries.  Following  are the 7 winning entries from this year's competition. 

IWF 2010 Challengers Award Winners

Winners listed alphabetically

BENZ Incorporated
Reciprocating Knife Cutter – RCK1

The new reciprocating knife cutter can cut veneers, carpets, felts, laminates, cork and soft plastics etc. During cutting with the oscillating knife cutter the spring-loaded floating ring ensures optimum contact of the material with the surface underneath.  Similar to a jigsaw, very small radiuses can be cut.  The very high reciprocating speed of up to 6.000 strokes per minutes ensures very effective machining with high federate speeds. The reciprocating knife cutter requires a machine equipped with a C-axis.

 Binks, DeVilbiss / ITW Industrial Fastening
Binks MX Pump – MX412 

The Binks MX Series of pumps support 1-2 gun spray finishing in air assist airless applications. With the industry's most responsive air motor and fluid section combination, your operation can experience reduced rejected parts, reduced coating costs, and reduced energy consumption.

Cabinotch
Cabinotch 1

Cabinotch® is a revolutionary way to build custom cabinets. The patent pending system allows you, the cabinet maker, to go online and order exact sized cabinets in height, width and depth to the thousandth of an inch.  This system supplies you the most innovative interlocking cabinet system in the world, delivered flat stacked right to your door.  Cabinotch® enables you to completely build even challenging cabinets like a lazy susan base or an angled upper in less than five minutes. Assembly is simple, fast, accurate, deadly square and ultimately good for the bottom line.  Let Cabinotch® take you to the next generation of cabinet making.

ETP Transmission, Inc.
ETP CUBIT  

ETP will introduce the new patented adjustable system ETP CUBIT at IWF 2010.  The ETP CUBIT is a complete new concept for adjustable systems.  Profiling of the tongue and groove in the flooring industry can now efficiently be done at an extreme precision and repeatability. Innovative and user-friendly design together with an extraordinary performance let you in just three steps reach profile success.

King Slide Works, Co., Ltd.
1A88 Push Open Silent Soft-close Undermount Slide

King Slide has perfectly combined the touch-to-open and soft-closing technologies in the revolutionary 1A88 slide.  This slide uses an electric-free, all-mechanical design that gives users a safer and more convenient kitchen environment, promising quality enhancement of our working and living environment in an eco-friendly style!  One Touch to Open, No Handle Needed: The handle free design offers more convenient ways to operate drawers, preventing accidental knocks and providing a safer environment.  Silent Soft-Closing Design: The soft closing design allows the drawer to retract slowly and elegantly, preventing painful pinching experiences and ensuring full retraction of the drawer.

Leitz Tooling Systems, Inc.
RipTec Cutting System

 
Leitz Introduces RipTec pre-cutting system patented for window production. Leitz RipTec System, patented for window production, drastically decreases blow-out on end-grain machining and creates a stronger joint, sealed against water and air. Also used in conjunction with finish planers on four-sided moulders, RipTec virtually eliminates plucked grain in difficult-to-machine woods. When machining curved parts, combination finish knives plus RipTec knives prevent chipping and increase knife performance by as much as 50%.

Precision Drive Systems
Dyna-Loc ATC Spindle

 
The Dyna-Loc is a Patent Pending, compact automatic tool change spindle.  This spindle system eliminates the need for many of the components of conventional tool change spindles.  The reduction in components allows the spindle to be more compact and light weight while also reducing the likelihood of failures.  Advantages include:· fail-safe design eliminates accidental tool ejection in the unlikely event of a failure;· eliminates troublesome hollow shaft, drawbar, and spring packs;· eliminates expensive HSK clamping sets;· provides for a shorter, more compact ATC spindle;· better spindle balance than conventional drawbar systems