Products and Services

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hermwood Corporation was established in 1969 as a
plastic molder of wood grained parts for the furniture
industry, hence the name “Thermwood”. From the beginning Thermwood incorporated a high level of technology in its business.
For example, to mold
its plastic parts Thermwood developed a
unique molding process and much of the
plastic molding and
trimming machinery
Thermwood used was
designed and built
in-house. In the mid1970s, it developed the
first commercial CNC
machine tool control
and used it to build machinery to trim its plastic parts. Thermwood began selling this trim equipment
for plastics, composites and woodworking applications
and the CNC router was born. Thermwood is currently
the oldest CNC router company and continues to offer
products for the woodworking, aerospace, plastics and
composites industries. In addition to numerous applications in the wood, furniture and cabinet industries,
Thermwood machines have also been used to process a
wide variety of well-known products.
The interiors of most commercial jet airliners are processed on Thermwood machines, as are many helicop-
ter blades, structural parts for
military aircraft and tile underlayment for the space shuttle.
Thermwood machines produce
parts from bowling alleys to bicycle helmets, spas, motorcycle
parts to truck bodies. Many of
the sets on Broadway were built
on Thermwood machines, as
were sets for movies such as
Batman, Jurassic Park 3 and the latest Star Wars. Thermwood machines helped rebuild both Windsor Castle
and the Opera House in London. Even NASA has used
Thermwood machines to build the Mars Flyer and Mars
Lander.
Thermwood is deeply involved in CNC technology and
technology development, incorporating a high level of
next generation control technology in its products. It remains the only major CNC router company in the world
that designs and builds its own high-end CNC control
and has more patents on CNC router technology than
all other CNC
router manufacturers combined. Thermwood’s control
has
become
a world-wide
standard in certain aerospace
and
defense
applications.
Products and Services:
Facilities:
Thermwood develops, manufacturers and distributes
technology based products and software for the manufacturing sector. We primarily target the woodworking,
aerospace, molding, plastics and composites industries
but also supply products and services to a variety of
other industries from boating and entertainment to
medical.
Thermwood corporate
headquarters are located in the Southern
Indiana town of Dale,
just off Interstate 64
about half way between Evansville, Indiana and Louisville,
Kentucky. Our main
facility consists of
175,000 square feet which
includes both an office/showroom and an
engineering and manufacturing plant. A second building
located approximately one mile North houses software
development personnel. Thermwood also operates a service and support office located in the North of England
in County Durham.
Our primary manufacturered products are based around
CNC routers. In this area we provide a diverse product offering including machines, hardware, tooling,
software, components, materials and a variety of services. Products with major engineering content, such
as CNC machines are sold through a dealer network.
Thermwood dealers generally only represent Thermwood products and most have been with Thermwood
for ten to twenty years, assuring both knowledge and
experience.
Thermwood also manages a cooperative of over 25,000
custom cabinet shops called eCabinet Systems. We supply these shops with advanced cabinet design and room
layout software for free.
Formal technical training is another product Thermwood offers and, in addition to training seminars held
around the US each year we also maintain a modern
educational facility where we provide formal training
for our products, third-party software products and advanced manufacturing technology.
Thermwood
First in CNC Routers
www.thermwood.com
800-533-6901, P.O. Box 436, Dale, IN 47523
The Office/Showroom is a 20,400 square foot two story
office building that consists of executive offices, four
high-tech formal training class rooms, two dining rooms,
meeting and conference rooms and a combination showroom and customer demonstration facility. This building also houses Thermwood’s IT center which includes
extensive web servers and worldwide corporate network
hardware.
The modern manufacturing facility houses various industrial processes from steel cutting, bending, forming
and welding to electronic board assembly and CNC control manufacturing. Thermwood builds the vast majority
of every system in-house and uses a variety of advanced
manufacturing techniques including finite element analysis, vibration stress relief and three-dimensional laser
interferometers. Every process is controlled using highly
integrated manufacturing software and the factory runs
virtually “paperless”. In addition to manufacturing processes, the main plant also houses design engineering,
customer support and technical service including the
“virtual service” link centers.