Product Spotlight: Common Wood Type Differences

Oak – Oak wood is found in both the red and white variants and are the most popular hardwoods available.  Both the red and white varieties are dense and tough and have straight-grained, rough textures.  As you may guess the red variety has a redder color running through the wood and the white has a lighter coloring ranging from white …

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Reacting to:  Natural and organic design styles

What do you think about new, trending styles having more organic and natural design styles?  For me, I personally love it!  Colors have become more dusty and muted and typically stick to natural tones.  Textures like wood, leather, jute, rattan, have become more popular as well as potted plants, either fake or real!  And when it comes to metal accents …

So, what’s new at HWI?

So, what’s new at HWI?  Let me answer that for you!  In the last month we have hired two new employees to work in the shop.  This will help us manufacture more smoothly without the production workers having to skip around to multiple machines and positions too much during the day.  The second thing that happened is we took a …

Updates from HWI

This past month we have had a few new things going on, here’s a quick outline:  we received and installed our new edgebander, have started the long process of switching to a new system for scheduling and material tracking, and have received more price increases on our white melamine, and Formica laminate.  All of these things (except the price increases)  …