winter sports to summer sporting areas as well. There is also the possibility of expanding more in the sporting consumer accessories market in the future.”
New addition to wood processing family Woodtech is Wintersteiger’s wood processing arm, and produces a number of thincutting machines, saw blades, customised
process solutions as well as wear parts. An important step forward for this business area came in 2012 with the purchase of the company VAP Gruber Automations GmbH, which allowed it to add a new line of products to its wood portfolio – Timber Repair & Cosmetics (TRC). These machines are used for repairing holes and other imperfections in wood floors.
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The CEO talks about the importance of this purchase: “There is a quite a lot of potential for TRC. Without this kind of technology you need very skilled people to perform the task of wood floor repair so it’s usually done by hand. We can now offer automatic machinery for this so it’s an area in which we expect to see growing demand.”
