The 28th edition of the biennial event of XYLEXPO, a fair dedicated to wood technologies, which was suspended during the pandemic and resumed in 2022, ended last Friday. Expectations were low, justified by a general crisis of all trade fairs in the world. An epochal downsizing of the event was immediately noticed, as we went from the 7 pavilions of 12 years ago to just 2 pavilions and, what's more, occupied by a large and aggressive group of Chinese exhibitors led by the giants Nanxing and KDT Distributed , the latter, from Masterwood of Rimini. The great absences ...