GERMANY – The Hettich group of companies with its headquarters in Kirchlengern generated a turnover of € 880 million in 2015. This represents an increase of 4.5 percent over the year before (2014: € 842 m). 

GERMANY – Interprint one of the largest global décor printers  for the furniture and flooring industries, increased turnover by 2% to EUR 295 million in 2015. 

MEXICO – Stiles Machinery, Inc., subsidiary of the Homag Group in the USA, announced its expansion into Mexico and the creation of a new North American region. 

GERMANY – The Italian producer of technology solutions for the woodworking industry announced record 2015 results during a press conference held March 17 at the Holz-Handwerk trade fair in Nuremberg, Germany. 

GERMANY – The Swiss wood-based panel manufacturer Swiss Krono commissioned Dieffenbacher to supply a state-of-the-art particle board plant. 

ITALY – Biesse, the second global manufacturer of woodworking machinery, reached sales of EUR 519.1 million that represented an increase of 21.5% compared to 2014 (EUR 427.1 million). EBITDA in 2015 reached EUR 64.1 million compared to EUR 40.9 million in 2014 for an increase of 52.9%.

GERMANY – Siempelkamp is will make greater use of its foreign production locations to position itself with a stronger international focus.

U.S. – Stiles Machinery, Inc., a subsidiary of Homag Group celebrated on February 10th the grand opening of the Homag Machinery North America manufacturing facility in Grand Rapids, Michigan. 

INDIA – Indian wood-based panel manufacturer Greenply Industries Limited ordered its second Dieffenbacher MDF line in December 2015. 

GERMANY – As part of the upcoming changes to its organizational structure, and under the guiding idea of “ONE HOMAG”, the HOMAG Group is set to further increase customer orientation in Germany by making its processes even more efficient. With this is mind, the newly founded HOMAG Deutschland GmbH will take over sales and service for local industrial customers of all companies in the HOMAG Group.

GERMANY – With the order from Plitspichprom, a Russian plant operator, 2015 came to an end as a successful year for Siempelkamp. Four orders for the Russian market alone were received in 2015. 

COLOMBIA – Tekandina, distributor in Colombia for German Homag Group, the world leader in board processing machinery, and for Leuco, one of the world’s largest suppliers of carbide and diamond-tipped tools for wood and plastic processing machines, has moved to its own new headquarters.