The combined “Trä&Technik/Elmia Timber” trade fair attracted around 10 000 visitors to Göteborg from 24 to 26 August. The organisers claim that this shows the concept has proved its worth and provided a solid basis for the next staging of the event in the year 2004. There was an increased number of international visitors. More timber professionals came to this fair, not only from Scandinavia, but there was also an appreciable increase in the number of visitors from Germany, Russia and the Baltic states.