Hamburg/Düsseldorf, June 16, 2008 – During drupa 2008, E.C.H. Will, a leading supplier of machinery and services for the paper manufacturing and converting industry, located in Hamburg, Germany, exhibited the folio-size sheeter FS PRO and the exercise book machine Alpha RF at its Open House. Many customers - mainly from Eastern Europe, Southeast Asia and Africa - were highly interested in these machines.

Each day of the show at least one delegation consisting of two to three people travelled from Düsseldorf to Hamburg and back to see the machines under actual production conditions at the Open House. "The customers gladly made the round-trip journey to see us. In addition to the folio-size sheeter and the exercise book machine, they got the chance to have a look at several SLK cut-size machines, which are currently being built in Hamburg", said Martin Brandt, Executive Vice President, Paper Systems at E.C.H. Will. "Our full assembly hall fascinated them", he added.

The folio-size sheeter FS PRO is characterized by a high production speed of up to 350 m/min. and mark-free sheeting, even of highly sensitive, coated paper and board grades.

The fully-automated exercise book machine Alpha RF with its production speed of up to 300 m/min. (10,800 books/hr. for 3-up production, 14,400 books/hr. for 4-up production) allows flexible converting of paper from the reel into stationery articles at international export quality standards. "During the Open House we converted PaperOne brand paper into A5 exercise books. The Alpha RF worked 'like a Swiss watch', as one of our visitors to the Open House put it, complimenting the reliability and quality of our products. We would like to thank our longstanding customer APRIL for providing us with this high quality paper. All in all we are very satisfied with the response to our Open House invitation" said Mr. Brandt.