GERMANY – The world-premiere of Threespine ID took place at Interzum – one of the most influential furniture manufacturing fairs in the world – and has already been recognised with the prestigious Interzum award for ‘High Product Quality’.

GERMANY – Production in the woodworking machinery industry in Germany reached a record EUR 3.6 billion in 2022, an increase of 8.3 percent over the previous year.

USA. – Arclin, a chemical manufacturer of engineered products for construction, transportation, agriculture and other industries, announced that earlier this year it entered into an exclusive agreement with Inserco Industrie Service GmbH for the support and growth of Arclin’s business in South America.

GERMANY – Sales of industrial robots in India reached a new record of 4,945 units installed. 

ITALY – The first CSIL report focused on e-commerce was published in November 2001. There were 418 million internet users in the year 2000, this was about 5 years after Jeff Bezos delivered from his garage the very first book ever sold from the newly born Amazon platform.

GERMANY – interzum 2023, the world’s leading trade fair for furniture production and interior design, opens in Cologne.

ARGENTINA – Central Puerto, Argentina’s largest electricity producer, acquired the forestry company Evasa (owned by a Harvard University investment fund), which manages three companies: Empresas Verdes Argentina, Las Misiones and Estancia Celina. All of them are geographically located in the center of the province of Corrientes.

ECUADOR – The value of Ecuador’s particleboard exports (PB/MDP) reached USD 52.70 million in the first quarter of 2023 (1Q-2023).

ITALY – The Salone del Mobile.Milano – 2023 ended with a total of 307.418 visitors. Compared with the previous year, this is an increase of 15 percent.

BELGIUM – The International Woodworking Fair (IWF) in Atlanta, North America’s oldest and largest global woodworking technology and design trade show and conference, has established a Cooperation Agreement with the European Federation of Woodworking Machinery Manufacturers (Eumabois).

CHINA – interzum guangzhou 2023, Asia’s largest and most important trade fair for woodworking machinery, furniture production and interior design, which took place in Guangzhou from 28 to 31 March, was a complete success.

GERMANY – Despite the challenging economic environment, the German furniture industry increased its national sales last year by almost seven percent to EUR 20.97 billion (companies with 20 and more employees). The key region of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) and the companies in Ostwestfalen-Lippe (OWL) in particular made a significant contribution to this development: furniture industry sales in NRW rose by around six percent to EUR 8.4 billion, for OWL there was an increase of 8.4 percent to EUR 6.4 billion.