CARREFOUR INTERNATIONAL DU BOIS 2026 | STAND XXL-H30 | 2-4 JUNE 2026, NANTES

Fordaq.com relaunch preview & Neural Grader Innovations

Fordaq will do its biggest product launch in years next week at the Carrefour du Bois in France

Dear Fordaq members,

We are looking forward to seeing many of you next week at the Carrefour du Bois in France on our stand XXL H30.

Fordaq.com relaunch preview

We have chosen the Carrefour du Bois to do the official preview of the new version of Fordaq.com. This is the biggest overhaul of Fordaq.com since its creation 25 years ago!!

Fordaq 2.0 will benefit from the latest technologies to be significantly faster and easier to use.

Our teams have rethought the dashboard to make it more comprehensive, entry of offers and inquiries will now be much faster, we have a new chat engine for members to facilitate deal making, a new mobile web app and many more innovations.

A large part of our sales and customer support team will be on our stand XXL H30 to show you how our new platform functions and help you benefit from it.

Neural Grader innovating at a fast pace

Our Neural Grader grading and cutting optimisation technology has been impressing the industry with its advanced defect detection capacity since its launch at Ligna 2025. Our research teams have been further improving our coverage of hardwood defects but we are now also happy to help softwood customers.

One of our main focuses in 2026 is to help companies fully optimise their rip and cross-cut cutting lines. We now enable producers to run variable widths within the same production batches on their cutting lines thanks to our smart 4 side vision systems. We work with all equipment manufacturers so don’t hesitate to contact us.

As you will see in the PR published with Pomeranian this week we are introducing to market our Smart Bundle Technology which follows boards into bundles, enabling full traceability of boards to customers and automated bundle management.

This technology is evolving extremely fast and transforming the business of companies we work with. We encourage you to make a reservation if you want 1:1 time on our stand next week to discuss your business and how we could help you.

Tally Express demo’s

If you want to automate your tallies of lumber - come to our stand and we will be happy to show you how to use Tally Express.

Meet the Fordaq team at the stand

An international team of nine specialists will be present, including the founder of Fordaq.

• Benoit Nieuwenhuys, co-Founder & CEO

• Sampsa Auvinen, Chairman of the Board

• Cesar Tolgyesi Fernandez, Business Development Manager, Latin America & Iberian Peninsula

• Ionut Santau, Business Development Manager, Italy, Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Turkey, Hungary, Bulgaria, Romania

• Cristina Stănescu, Business Development Manager, France, Belgium, Africa, Canada

• Christian Morasso, Business Development Manager Italy

• Claudiu Muntianu, Business Development Manager, NA, UK, Baltic states

• Sabrina Lüdke, Business Development Manager, Germany, Austria, Switzerland

• Coralie Goutard, Business Development Manager France

Languages spoken: English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Romanian and Portuguese.

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