P R O F I L E
Czech trade fair success
underlines dealer's penetration of timber processing
Foto: right-toleft, Miroslav
Greill, Czech
Wood-Mizer
representative
and
technicians
Grzegorz
Machowicz,
Mariusz
Wrobel and
Marek Greill at
the
PragoLigna
trade fair,
November
2010
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Wood-Mizer's stand at the recent
PragoLigna trade fair in the Czech
Republic drew unusually high interest in
narrow band blades and band sawmills.
The enthusiasm underlines widespread adoption of Wood-Mizer
products in the country over the past 16
years.
Miroslav Greill, director of WoodMizer Servis explains that approximately 600 Wood-Mizer band
sawmills operate in the Czech Republic,
in most cases providing a steady
income in difficult times compounded
by national forest policy changes.
Before the ‘Velvet Revolution’
Miroslav Greill was a forester in a state
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forestry enterprise. The operation was
first in the country to acquire three, then
innovative, narrow band sawmills from
the American firm, Wood-Mizer. The
Czechs had seen them at Ligna 1991,
their first European airing. Narrow band
sawing was new then and Miroslav Greill
mastered the technique in time to
benefit from dramatic changes,
explaining….
“Czech forests are good and
combined with the social changes that
brought our revolution, opportunities
emerged for small and medium-sized
private firms.
“These included new building firms
and consequently, a regular need for