For the first time ever, the Imal-Pal group will exceed sales of €110m in 2011, a figure which, in proportion to the number of employees, is probably one of the highest in the wood based panel sector, says the company.

By the mid-Seventies, reports the Ligna website (www.ligna.de ), “wood and forest industry manufacturers at the large Hannover Messe industrial exhibition were developing space requirements which justified their own independent show. Thus it was that in 1975 ‘Ligna’ was born as a standalone trade exhibition at the Hannover exhibition centre, to be staged biennially”.