GERMANY – From May 21^st to 24^th at the Interzum fair in Cologne, Impress “Welcomed Home” many customers and industry professionals.

AUSTRIA – The Austrian fittings manufacturer Grass, part of the Würth Group, achieved sales of € 391 million in the 2018 financial year, up 3.4 percent against previous sales revenue of 378 million euros in the financial year 2017.

GERMANY – This year the spotlight at the Jowat stands at Interzum and Ligna was its non-hazardous reactive polyurethane (PUR) hot melts from the Jowatherm-Reaktant® MR series. A family of products for the wood and furniture industry reduced in monomers and, therefore, non-hazardous.

BRAZIL – For the fifth consecutive edition, the Orchestra Brazil Project to encourage exports, promoted by the Furniture Industry Union of Bento Gonçalves (Sindmóveis) and the Brazilian Agency for the Promotion of Exports and Investments (Apex-Brazil), supports the participation of companies in the International Fair of Wood and Technology (Fitecma), in Argentina.

AUSTRIA – Austrian fittings manufacturer Blum turned visitors’ signatures at its interzum booth into a €99,660 donation to non-profit relief organization “Light for the World”.

JAPAN/GERMANY– On June 24, 2019 Toppan Printing Co., Ltd. (Toppan) announced that it has signed an agreement with Wrede Industrieholding GmbH & Co. KG (Wrede) to acquire 100% of Interprint GmbH (Interprint).

GERMANY – At its stand in Interzum the Schattdecor team created a city – the Interzum 2019 megacity – that invited customers, designers, and architects to immerse themselves in three exciting and, above all, functional future living environments.

GERMANY – Leuco received the “Winner” award from the German Innovation Awards for “Leuco AirStream”.

CHINA – Renolit has established a new Joint Venture in China that will further strengthen the Group’s position in the Chinese market.

NETHERLANDS – Broadview Holding, a Netherlands-based industrial holding with a significant presence in material technology and energy, announced it has completed the USD 840 million acquisition of Cincinnati-based Formica Group from Fletcher Building.

CHINA – The second printing plant in China, in Quzhou, started operations in May 2019, becoming the eighteenth factory of Schattdecor in the world. The new plant includes a productive unit and an administrative area totaling 25,000 m2 on a plot of 100,000 m2.

GERMANY – The Spanish specialist in adhesives RAYT presented its solutions for the furniture industry at the latest Ligna in Hannover. Within Rayt’s offer, the thermo fusible adhesives for “zero-joint” edges stand out.