In conversation with Mr. Tilman Helmer Sales Manager, Turkey, Middle East, India and Japan, Dieffenbacher
Dieffenbacher’s decades of experience in tailoring production units to best suit customer needs, delivering excellent service and innovating to continuously improve productivity will help manufacturers make the most of India’s economic strengths.
Q. In less than a decade, India has become the new darling of global markets and is poised to become the third largest consumer economy (after the USA and China) over the next decade. The country’s percentage of super elite households is expected to rise five-fold by 2025. It is evident that India has a huge appetite for furniture. This is one of the prime reasons that the demand for Panel Processing Plants is rising in India. According to you, what are the plans of your esteemed Company to make the most of this opportunity?
A. We are extremely excited about the potential of the furniture industry in India. Dieffenbacher has always been active in the Indian engineered wood panel market. We have been a reliable partner to manufacturers during times of great opportunity and challenge. Our decades of experience in tailoring production units to best suit customer needs, delivering excellent service and innovating to continuously improve productivity will help manufacturers make the most of India’s economic strengths.
Q. Tell our readers more about your participation at Delhiwood 2019 viz. new products, new technologies, new services that you are planning to exhibit.
A. Dieffenbacher’s presence in Delhiwood goes back a long way. Our CPS+, which is the gold standard for continuous press systems, is the center-piece of our exhibit at Delhiwood 2019. Since its introduction in 2015, the CPS+ is now operating at 10 plants, and more than 20 lines have been sold. The flagship unit demonstrates our commitment to innovation and increased customer productivity. It offers best-in-class thickness tolerance, significant glue savings, excellent board surface and reduced maintenance costs. Its design also enables faster temperature changes during production, accelerated heat transfer onto the mat and increased production speeds. Our exhibit will also feature the FlowOptimizer, our enhanced Z-Sifter and our Management Cockpits.
Company Profile
Dieffenbacher is a worldleading manufacturer of complete turnkey production lines for wood-based panels, including particleboard, MDF, OSB and LVL board. Companies around the world rely on Dieffenbacher to plan and equip their new manufacturing plants and to modernize their existing plants to improve efficiency. The independent familyowned company employs more than 1,700 associates and has 16 subsidiaries worldwide.
