New owners, automation energize plant | Woodworking Network
Print Tony and Kathy Everett with some of their team members in the cutting room at Millwork on 31st in Charlotte, North Carolina. A lot of the narrative on modern manufacturing automation has to do with using technology as a substitute for employees. This is especially true in the woodworking industry where finding skilled workers is routinely listed as the number one problem. But when Kathy and Tony Everett bought Millwork on 31st in Charlotte, North Carolina, they had a different vision for what automation could do. The Everetts came to the woodworking industry from a non-woodworking backg...