BULGARIA – Turkish wood-based materials manufacturer Kastamonu Entegre commissioned Dieffenbacher to relocate a particleboard plant from France to Bulgaria.

GERMANY – Italian Cefla Finishing, together with Kuei, has won the “Innovative Partnership Award” at InPrint 2017, the industrial digital print technology fair held in Munich, from November 14-16.

CHINA – In October, the Thai Vanachai Panel Industries Company Limited placed the twelfth order to its technology partner Siempelkamp. This order represents a renewed project within the framework of a customer relationship that has existed since the 1980s.

GERMANY – In the first nine month of 2017, the HOMAG Group, the world’s leading manufacturer of machines and systems for the woodworking industry, continued its positive performance and recorded significant increases in its figures.

ITALY – In the first nine months (9M) of 2017, the Biesse Group’s sales amounted to EUR 498.3 million, 14.2% higher than the same period of the previous year when they reached EUR 436.4 million.

UAE – Biesse Middle East will inaugurate a state-of-the-art technology and training center in Dubai. With a three-day event from 7 to 9 November for customers, visitors and partners will kick off the new facility, showcasing the Made-in-Biesse technology solutions and facilitating contact with company experts.

GERMANY – The new HOMAG Group website has won a gold Stevie Award. The Stevie Award is the world’s only international, all-encompassing business award that honors outstanding achievements worldwide.

ITALY – A record 4000 visitors attended the 2017 edition of Biesse Inside, the in-house fair of the Italian machine and solutions manufacturer for wood and plastics processing at its Pesaro headquarters.

SPAIN – Thanks to the collaboration with Accenture, Biesse Group has obtained a worldwide recognition at the IOT Solutions World Congress, held from 3 to 5 October 2017 in Barcelona.

COLOMBIA – In the first seven months of 2017 (7M-2017) Colombian imports of woodworking machinery for wood panel processing reached USD 4.46 million compared to USD 5.29 million in the same period 2016, a decrease of 26.6%.

GERMANY – Avedon Capital Partners (Avedon), an experienced capital investor, informed that it has acquired a majority stake in Wilhelm Altendorf GmbH & Co. KG (Altendorf Group), the globally leading manufacturer of table saws for craft processing of wood, metal and plastics located in Minden, Germany.

AUSTRIA – The groundbreaking ceremony on the Holz-Her production facility in Voitsberg, Austria, signaled the start of an ambitious forward-looking project. The investment of 4.5 million euros is part of a group-wide investment package of more than 15 million euros and will secure the future, long-term growth of the company.