1. What makes LIGNA so special for you?

Our father Manuel, founder of CAPE, once he told us, the three sons of us, that when he first visited LIGNA as a visitor 40 years ago, he said to himself that he would only exhibit at LIGNA when he would have something that he could be proud of it to be at LIGNA. That showed the level of importance and category of LIGNA at that time and the three brothers of us have the same respect and level of importance for this exhibition. On every LIGNA we feel proud to be part of it and every first day of LIGNA, you feel that respect, greatness and joy to be there again.

2. What have you been most pleased about at a LIGNA?

Maintain the quality and commitment in any business is very difficult, specially with exhibitions. Other exhibitions are gone, others changed the format or joined other sectors to fill the numbers. LIGNA continuous to keep its reputation intact in a tough industry like the exhibitions.

3. What is the funniest/best/surprising thing you have experienced at LIGNA?

Being a technician in my early days, during the week before LIGNA started, I installed machines, dealt with truckers, crane people, decorators, hall supervisors, not-so-nice booth neighbours sometimes... Leaving the fairground the day before LIGNA started with so much still going on and arrive the next morning looking everything so nice, it's like magic.

4. What was the biggest challenge you had to overcome at LIGNA?

Freight is always unpredictable, anything can happen on the road and once it happened to us, one of the trucks bringing some of our machines to LIGNA brokedown in France. That moment was really tough. Fortunately, we have been working with the same freight company for the LIGNA show since my father started exhibiting in LIGNA more than 35 years ago and somehow they were able to bring the machines on time, a day before LIGNA started! That was a day I'll remember for years.

5. When is a LIGNA a successful LIGNA for you?

Just exhibiting at LIGNA edition after edition is already a success. It means we have worked well for the last 2 years developing and making our machines better and better so we can show all these developments to new and existing customers.