Homag Group’s fourth-quarter incoming orders increased by 12% year-on-year, reaching €141m during the three months.

This compared with incoming orders worth €127m in the same period of 2006, and helped drive “the highest level of incoming orders in the company’s history”, said management board spokesperson Dr Joachim Brenk.

Incoming orders for 2007 totalled €747m compared with €626m in 2006, an increase of 19% across all of its regions.