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Challenging ourselves to bring new and original ways of thinking.

ANDREW LEGAULT
President of COMBOIS

President CNC Automation – Canada

“The COMBOIS family is a wealth of information and experience surrounding the woodworking industry.

The transfer of information between the members has been invaluable towards the growth of CNC Automation.”

JOLANDA DE GROOT
Vice President of COMBOIS

Managing Director De Groot Bewerkingsmachines BV – Netherlands

“It is interesting to talk with other COMBOIS members about how to operate smarter in a changing market. By sharing knowledge and experience, we have taken advantage of opportunities and implemented improvements.”

SANDY HO
Vice President of COMBOIS

Managing Director Homag China Goldenfield – China

“COMBOIS provides a unique forum for benchmarking. What we learn at the COMBOIS table helps us to create more value for our customers. Sometimes the best ideas and innovations come from some other part of the world.”

RON SMYTH

Managing Director The WoodTec Group – Australia

“Joining COMBOIS is about networking with similar businesses with similar challenges. We are supporting each other by sharing experiences with like-minded COMBOIS members to achieve comparable goals.”

PETER HANDL

CEO HANDL Maschinen GesmbH & CoK – Austria

“Service is the key to success in our business.

COMBOIS allows us to learn from each other through exchanging experiences and comparing best practice models.”

SANDY HO
ADDIE KWAN

Managing Directors Homag China Goldenfield – China

“COMBOIS provides a unique forum for benchmarking ourselves against our professional peers around the world, and for evaluating the performance of suppliers and potential suppliers. What we learn at the COMBOIS table helps us to create more value for our customers. Sometimes the best ideas and innovations come from some other part of the world.”

THOMAS BIEHL
JESPER NICHOLAISEN

Managing Directors Nicholaisen AS – Denmark

“The diversity in the group and global participation provide new insights useful for Nicholaisen and our customers.”

GERD MEURER

CEO Heinrich KUPER GmbH – Germany

“The shared industry knowledge and technical expertise has been a significant reason for our long term success and greatly enhanced the value proposition we can offer to our customers. Bringing global insights and a broad spectrum of international manufacturing techniques to our local customer base enables us to fulfill our mission to provide more than just machinery.”

MARIO ALBRICCI

CEO and Owner Albricci s.r.l. – Italy

“Our membership of COMBOIS has been very rewarding, giving us inside access to management techniques and systems we can apply directly in our own business. We have learned that strategic thinking and tight logisitics are keystones for the most successful companies in our field, and the opportunity to collaborate with such reliable and professional partners has been highly valuable.

Attending the well-organised AGM meetings hosted each year in a different country is also much appreciated – always a beautiful and friendly experience.”

MASATO KUWAHARA

President at Fuso Fuso Ltd. – Japan

“I feel Fuso is strengthened through our involvement with COMBOIS, and especially when looking at the service area, the cooperation has been extremely valuable to us.
Furthermore the long-term friendships within the COMBOIS membership and a spirit of mutual assistance create a truly unique community of common interest.”

JOLANDA DE GROOT
RUUD DE GROOT

Managing Directors De Groot Bewerkingsmachines BV – Netherlands

“For De Groot, it is valuable to meet with other dealers, share information and most importantly, to learn from each other. We discuss many subjects ranging from products, suppliers, sales, service, marketing, human resources, finance, parts, management, etc.

COMBOIS is a group of very kind and reliable people. We share all kinds of information on a confidential basis. All information stays within the COMBOIS group.”

ROBIN JACK

Managing Director W & R Jack Ltd – New Zealand

“Europe is home to most of the world’s leading suppliers of equipment for processing timber, off site construction and manufacture of joinery and furniture. For 70 years, Jacks has been helping New Zealand companies to deploy these technologies. Despite our geographic isolation at the bottom of the world, the COMBOIS network helps keep us right up with the latest international developments in equipment, software and after sales support. Our access to this global and independent knowledge-base generates decisive benefits for our customers.”

JANN BJOERNE
ERIK ILDAL

Managing Directors A. Falkenberg Eftf. AS – Norway

“As a member of COMBOIS we have the opportunity to exchange experiences which gives us good ideas for further developing of our companies. We are part of a global network of companies selling machines for wood working industry and we are making good personal friendships.”

AMARO MARTINS

Owner and CEO MARJOS – Industrial Equipment, S.A. – Portugal

“We as a new member participated one time in an Annual General Meeting and were impressed by the open discussions and exchanges. We are convinced it’s worth to MARJOS and at the end for our customers. We are looking forward to future meetings and we confirm our presence at the next AGM meeting.”

MATS MARED

Owner and CEO Mared Industrial Engineering AB – Sweden

“Thanks to the COMBOIS network, we have improved our key measures that proved advantageous in specific business negotiations. Interaction between the service managers has made our aftersales more efficient and profitable.”

RUSS SUOR

Executive Vice President Stiles Machinery Ltd. – USA

“COMBOIS is an excellent network of manufacturing solutions providers worldwide. The ability to contact and share regional experiences and trends worldwide is invaluable.
The answer to a question or idea is only a phone call or email away!”