Popular timber trade fair

This year Carrefour International du Bois, the timber trade fair scheduled for Nantes from 29 to 31 May 2002, expects almost 400 exhibitors from more than 60 countries and 9 000 visitors. The visitor attendance figure for the year 2000 was 7 000. An exhibition space of approximately 9 000 m² is now available to exhibitors, or 20 per cent more than two years ago. The fair will be held for the seventh time since 1990.