10 March 2020

FAIRS

XYLEXPO 2020 POSTPONED

Xylexpo 2020 will be postponed. This is the painful but necessary decision taken last Friday, March 6, by the Managing Board of Acimall, the association of Italian woodworking machinery and tools manufacturers, owner of the biennial exhibition.The 2020 edition will not be held next May 26-29 as originally planned, but postponed to the second half of the year, in dates that will be identified later on, in view of the ongoing disruption of trade fair calendars and the unpredictable developments of the “Covid-19” emergency...(read more)

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FAIRS

AWISA 2020 POSTPONED

At the Awisa board meeting on Friday 6 March the decision was made to postpone at a later date the exhibition planned for 1-4 July 2020. The reasons all relate to coronavirus. The board considered the health and safety of visitors and the staff of exhibiting companies...(read more)

 
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FAIRS

EUROBOIS 2020: THE REPORT

Eurobois, the timber, woodworking machinery, and fitting out trade show took place on 4th-7th February this year in Lyon. According to the organizers the outcomes of these 4 days is positive with 29,100 professional visitors, 420 exhibitors – a third of them from abroad – and a growing representation from fitting-out and first-stage timber conversion..(read more)

 
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SIEMPELKAMP

NEW PRESS FOR EGGER

The “first board” for the fourth short-cycle press “Kt 700” took place which the Egger Group has ordered from Siempelkamp so far. This milestone demonstrates the continuity in the business relationship of both partners. Egger Rambervillers is located in the Vosges mountains. The delivery includes a multi-piston short-cycle press including raw board and finished board handling with the corresponding automation...(read more)

 

RUBNER

SOLUTION FOR MESTRE MARKET

Symbol of redevelopment of the city, the new San Michele di Mestre covered market was built in just 5 months, of which 2 were enough to create the wooden structure designed by Rubner Holzbau, the most technologically advanced sector of the Rubner Group specialized in large wood buildings. Large 2,000 square meters, of which 1,000 dedicated to shops, the new structure is covered with rhomboid flaps in laminated wood on steel pillars...(read more)