We wish you all a peaceful and joyous holiday season and may you be healthy and prosperous in the New Year 2008.

Kanefusa Corporation

Kanefusa Corporation receives the OUTSTANDING TECHNICAL AWARD at Mokkiten 2007, Nagoya, Japan. The award was given to us for the development of a new knife design for our ENSHIN planer head.

Tungsten Carbide knives for self-locking planer heads such, as the ENSHIN usually have a solid structure. Based on our profound knowledge of forging, welding and brazing, we have developed a new structure for Tungsten Carbide knives. Only the very cutting edge is made from Tungsten Carbide, the rest of the knife is made from steel. The new design allows the use of a more durable Tungsten Carbide grade, which increases the performance by 50 % against conventional solid Tungsten Carbide knives when cutting tropical timber, hardwoods or laminated wood.

Sale of the knives will start in Japan from January 2008 and outside Japan later in 2008.

With totally 4 new product releases, more than any other cold saw blade manufacturer at the show, Kanefusa presented its innovation power and cemented its roll as the globally leading manufacturer of cold saw blades for single use. For more information regarding our new products, please download the information brochure from the download section of our website.

http://kanefusa.jp/eng/products/metal/downloads/index.html

At the Kanefusa Technology Seminar, which took place on September 18th at the Radisson SAS hotel nearby, our distributor received latest information on Kanefusa as a company and our new products. Our special appreciation goes to Mr. Pat Thornton, President of Pat Moony INC., who is our exclusive distributor in North America for his very interesting talk about how he developed the market in North America with our products.

This time, we feature a guest writer, Mr. Schlueter, Product Management of Grecon Dimter.

Furthermore, it includes market information in Europe and South America and much more interesting articles.

To download the Kanefusa Newsletter, please click here http://kanefusa.jp/eng/products/wood/downloads/index.html

Over 130 persons, from 27 countries and 4 continents came to learn more about our technology, to exchange market intelligence and to share knowledge and experience. We are very thankful to Mr. A. Hohl (Switzerland), Mr. P. Kobkulsuwan (Thailand), Mr. M. Chatzistamatiou (Greece) and Mr. J. Ridgley (England) for talking about how they succeeded promoting and selling our products in their markets.

To receive printed literature, please contact your Kanefusa distributor or a Kanefusa office in your area.

We will participate in the Wood Manufacturing 2007 conference held in Rotorua, New Zealand on March 28th - 30th and in Melbourne, Australia on April 2nd - 4th.

Mr. Heubeck, Marketing Manager Kanefusa Corporation, will be talking about Saw & Knife Tooling - Developments in thin kerf optimizing saws and cutting edge materials for knives & profile cutters

For further information please visit http://www.fiea.org.nz/calendar.html

On behalf of everyone at Kanefusa I would like to wish you all a healthy and prosperous New Year and express our sincere appreciation for your continued support.

We are determined that Kanefusa continues to be a company that can be relied upon to support small and large enterprises in the woodworking, metalworking, paper and plastics industries.
In this regard, as a trusted partner to our customers, we will make every effort to provide innovative tooling and services that contribute to their success.

Once again may I thank to you for your support and I would like wish you all the very best for the New Year

M. Watanabe
President