Updated 2026-07-15 · QuickWood technical team
QuickWood was founded in Denmark in 1975 by Bent Malherbe. What began as one man's conviction, that brush sanding could finish shaped wood better than any flat abrasive, became the machines that professional shops on four continents rely on today.
The company was started in Denmark in 1975 by Bent Malherbe, who pioneered the rotary brush sanding technology that still defines QuickWood machines: flexible abrasive flaps that follow a profile instead of flattening it. Fifty years later, that same principle runs in every machine we build.
Bent's son, Jacob Malherbe, has run QuickWood's United States operations since 2003, more than two decades matching machines and flap wheels to the specific needs of American cabinet shops, molding plants, furniture makers and metal fabricators. When you call 1-866-888-5858 and ask for pricing or a recommendation, you're talking to people who have spent their careers on the shop floor, not a call center.
QuickWood manufactures rotary brush sanding machines and the abrasive supplies that feed them, flap wheels, replacement flaps, pneumatic hand tools and more. The machines finish the surfaces that flat sanders can't: raised-panel cabinet doors, profiled mouldings, eased edges, and laser-cut metal parts.
Because we make the machines and the consumables, a QuickWood shop sources everything from one supplier, no hunting for compatible flap wheels or replacement strips when a production line is down.
From your first production run of cabinet doors to a line that has run QuickWood machines for years, we are here to help. Call 1-866-888-5858, email jim@quickwood.com, or request a quote.
