This year's LIGNA (World Fair for the Forestry and Wood Industries was referred to by many exhibitors as the "best LIGNA ever", and surveys confirmed a significant increase in the number of business contacts generated at the show.

Attendance up more than 10 percent, topping 107,000 and approximate 1,879 exhibitors!

EPS Schilling‑Knobel and TPS TechnoPartner Samtronic participated again on the booth of PALLMANN (Zweibrücken). The interest in the Wood Plastic Composites (WPC) and the turnkey engineering + machinery solution of the pLine by EPS/TPS and PALLMANN has been once again tremendous, a significant number of new contacts has been the positive result of LIGNA 2007!

Beside the WOOD PLASTIC COMPOSITES EPS/TPS and PALLMANN launched jointly with WACKER POLYMERS and AMORIM Industrial Solutions the Cork Plastic Composite (CPC) produced on the pFix^® in large scale 2m wide sheet or according blanks.

The ultimate HIGHLIGHT has been the announcement of the new Thermofix Technology Center (TTC) to be opened 1 September 2007 by EPS/TPS nearby Stuttgart. A complete pLine^® in cooperation with PALLMANN in Zweibrücken will be available for any customer's testing and R&D for the "marriage" of the WOOD and PLASTICS material world according to the philosophy:

PALLTRUDER^® leads to PALLWOOD^®, pScatt^® and pFix^® leads to the pBoard^® and all together the perfect fit: the pLine^®.