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Harvey Industries turns IWF Atlanta into one of the week’s most talked-about booths



Courtesy of Harvey Industries


Oct 28, 2026

Harvey Industries International walked into the International Woodworking Fair at the Georgia World Congress Center last week with four machines to reveal — and attracted attention during the show.

The Montclair, California-based manufacturer used its IWF booth to graduate two concept machines into production and to debut two entirely new ones, including a next-generation table saw the company says represents ten years of proprietary safety-technology development. Harvey’s booth in Building A attracted visitors during the show, including buyers, dealers, and other manufacturers — foot traffic that suggested interest in the products on display.

For the GWCC and for downtown Atlanta, moments like Harvey’s are why IWF matters. The International Woodworking Fair is one of the largest recurring industrial trade events at the campus, filling downtown hotels, Andrew Young International Boulevard restaurants, and MARTA cars from Tuesday through Friday. The Georgia World Congress Center Authority’s FY2024 economic impact study pegged the GWCC campus at $1.84 billion in total economic output and 16,157 supported jobs across the year, with roughly 86% of that output flowing from out-of-state visitors — precisely the buyer audience Harvey and its fellow IWF exhibitors were built to attract.


The Buzz on the Floor

Harvey’s IWF program worked on two tracks, and both fed the crowd.

On the production track, the company put the SNIPER SD-20 Intelligent Drill Press and the BABY GYRO AIR G-200H dust and air-quality system on sale in the United States. Both machines were first shown as concepts at the AWFS Fair in Las Vegas in 2025; both are now shipping in production form. Buyers who had first seen them at AWFS came to Atlanta to see the finished products in operation — a ‘concept-to-production’ connection that offered visitors a look at how the product had developed.

On the concept track, Harvey used Atlanta to debut two new machines pointed squarely at the professional cabinet, millwork, and small-shop segments the IWF audience represents:

  • The D-1 Dream Saw, a next-generation table saw built around non-contact hand detection that stops and drops the blade before skin contact occurs — with no cartridge to replace, no destroyed blade, and, according to Harvey, no false triggers on wet wood or metal. The company describes the underlying safety technology as ten years in development.

  • The E-Lift Router Lift, a motorized, push-button-repeatable router lift designed to pair with Harvey’s existing COMPASS router table system for template, joinery, and light-production work.

The D-1 attracted interest from booth visitors, with demonstrations of its non-contact safety system drawing groups of onlookers and giving the machine some visibility during the week.



Courtesy of Harvey Industries


Why Atlanta Earned the Reveal

Harvey has been part of the Georgia woodworking-fair calendar for years, but 2026 was the first time the company used IWF as a first-look launch venue for machines of this magnitude. The reason is the audience the GWCC pulls in.

The professional woodworking buyer base — cabinet shops, millwork operations, custom furniture makers, small architectural-woodwork firms — travels to Atlanta every two years for IWF specifically to make capital-equipment decisions. For a manufacturer with a decade of safety R&D to defend and two new production machines to launch, the GWCC floor offers opportunities to discuss product specifications in person.

That dynamic is exactly the case the Atlanta Convention & Visitors Bureau and GWCCA have been making to the city’s hospitality, food, and ground-transportation operators for years: recurring industrial trade weeks aren’t just hotel-night generators; they’re a venue where manufacturers from outside the region can explore products and inform future purchasing decisions. Harvey’s four-machine 2026 program is a working example of that flywheel — and the kind of booth week Atlanta will want more of the next time IWF returns.