A new organiser has been appointed to run Expobois 2004, the biennial international show of woodworking machinery manufacturers and timber industries.

Exposium will organise the Paris event for SYMAP, the French trade association for machine tools, welding, assembling and related industrial automation.

The March 10-13 show is expected to attract more than 400 exhibitors and about 20,000 visitors.

&#8220Our objective is to reinforce Expobois’s role as a forum for the wood industries with panel discussions that will help anticipate future trends”

Exhibition director Juana Moreno

Exhibition director Juana Moreno said: “Our objective is to reinforce Expobois’s role as a forum for key exchanges between the various players of the wood industries by proposing a comprehensive product offering, top-quality sales contacts and panel discussions that will help everybody to anticipate the future of the wood industries more clearly and more efficiently.”