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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 4 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 WOOD-MIZER TODAY SPRING 2011 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