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In this issue:
News: EPF annual report
Focus on MDF: Part 2
Focus on Italy
August/September 2020
Comment | 3
WBPI – the voice of the global panel industry
S peaking to Italian wood-
based panels machinery
suppliers for our annual
Focus on Italy was particularly
poignant this year.
With several companies
based in Lombardy where the
Covid-19 virus has affected
many people, everyone has
their own stories of what was
a testing period earlier this year.
CMC Texpan chairman of the board Paolo Gattesco
remembers coming to check the factory in Colzate
(an area hit hard by the virus) during lockdown and
describes the feeling of a “noisy silence” punctuated
by church bells and ambulance sirens.
Thankfully the staff of CMC Texpan and other
technology
In this issue: News: EPF an
Comment | 3 WBPI – the voice of the global
4 | Contents Contents
I-BOND wood resins. Solutions that breathe qualit
6 | News News EPF stats show wood-based panel p
News | 7 Wemhoener (Changzhou) celebrates
8 | News News Dieffenbacher to manufacture the
News | 9 MEDITE SMARTPLY reports €207.4m a
10 | Focus on MDF | Part 2 GLOBAL MDF CAPACITY R
Focus on MDF | Part 2 | 11 WORLD Existing pl
12 | Focus on MDF | Part 2 WORLD Existing plan
Focus on MDF | Part 2 | 13 WORLD Existing plan
14 | Focus on MDF | Part 2 WORLD Existing plan
PRODUCE SMARTER Digital solutions that sim
16 | Focus on MDF | Part 2 WORLD Existing plan
Focus on MDF | Part 2 | 17 WORLD Existing plan
18 | Focus on MDF | Part 2 WORLD Existing plan
Focus on MDF | Part 2 | 19 WORLD Existing plan
20 | Focus on MDF | Part 2 WORLD Existing plan
BELT DRYER DYNADRYER THE DRYING PROCESS FOR WOOD
22 | Focus on MDF | Part 2 WORLD Existing plan
Focus on MDF | Part 2 | 23 WORLD Existing plan
24 | Focus on MDF | Part 2 WORLD Existing pl
to include preliminary engineering studies, regio
26 | Focus on MDF | Part 2 WORLD Existing pl
MDF facility in Alagoas, Brazil. The industr
28 | Focus on MDF | Part 2 Summary of New Ca
Minimal Costs - Excellent Calibration - High Spee
30 | Focus on MDF | Part 2
Focus on MDF | Part 2 | 31 one MDF mill has
32 | Focus on Italy: CMC Texpan NEW CONNECTIONS
increase brand awareness. In this, we are strengt
34 | Focus on Italy: Imeas RISING TO THE CHALLEN
“We are working with other suppliers like Le
36 | Focus on Italy: IMAL IMAL BRINGS NEW HO
and the company was having to start court proceed
38 | Focus on Italy: IMAL
GERMAN TECHNOLOGY MASS-SCAN X MultiEnergy H
40 | Focus on Italy: Pal RECYCLING – A KEY FOR
China, while another project in China is already
42 | Focus on Italy: Longoni THE SURFACING WORLD
Longoni and its partners are in discussions with
44 | Focus on Italy: Turboden POWERING UP Ital
particleboard line belt dryer and in MDF producti
46 | Panel Perspectives: WMF/CIFF THE SHOWS WILL
Panel Perspectives: WMF/CIFF | 47 Visitors
48 | Panel Perspectives: Kleiberit PROTECTION A
Panel Perspectives: Kleiberit | 49
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