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IWF Atlanta to launch second show in Texas.
IWF Atlanta will produce an all-new Texas-based trade show and conference serving the rapidly expanding West/Southwest marketplace.
IWF West’s 2027 premiere in San Antonio, Texas is designed to expand IWF’s service to the North American Woodworking industry.
The new show and conference will extend and expand IWF’s long-running Atlanta franchise. IWF West will debut August 25 to 27, 2027 in San Antonio, Texas in a three-day trade show built to serve both the growing Southwestern U.S. market and IWF’s large national customer base. The new show, which will include a broad selection of educational and social/networking events echoing the Atlanta Conference programming, will bring the best of the Atlanta product mix together with manufacturers making their IWF debut. But the San Antonio event will also deliver its own unique blend of features and focus, separate and apart from Atlanta.
IWF says the new show is created largely in response to growing exhibitor and attendee customer demand for a new trade show experience timed between the biennial IWF Atlanta and sited in a major southwestern city central to Sunbelt business.
To meet those and related customer requirements, IWF West will deliver:
- A concentrated three-day show scheduled for convenience, efficiency and impact.
- A carefully curated mix of manufacturers representing the best of IWF Atlanta plus new first-time exhibitors making their IWF debut.
- A perfectly scaled show floor providing buyers quick and easy access to an extensive mix of machinery, machinery-related products and services, components, supplies and non-machinery related products.
- A more relaxed show environment, in pace and scale, allowing buyers time to explore the products and services they might have missed at IWF Atlanta...and to make more productive connections with new exhibitors.
- Enhanced networking opportunities in a show environment created to help buyers find new ideas, new solutions and new ways to grow their business.
- And customized business-building learning and professional development opportunities featuring wood products technology and design experts in an intimate setting geared toward education.
IWF West and IWF Atlanta are sponsored by the Wood Industry Association (WIA). Both IWF Atlanta and IWF West are produced and managed by Atlanta-based IWF.
IWF West will be held at the Henry B. González Convention Center, San Antonio’s premier exhibition space nestled in the heart of the city’s historic district. San Antonio is ideally located for easy access from throughout Texas as well as key western states like Colorado, Utah, Nevada and California.
