French Expobois originally scheduled for 22 to 25 November has been postponed by sixteen months and will next be held from 13 to 16 March 2018 in Paris. According to Deutsche Messe, which is staging Expobois for the first time in conjunction with the French SYMOP the fair has been postponed on the request of exhibitors.
The original date for Expobois had been at the end of September, but at the beginning of 2016 had been postponed to the November date. At the last staging of Expobois in November 2014, 188 exhibitors had taken part, representing a fall of 20% compared to the previous event in 2012. Visitor numbers had increased by almost one quarter to 12,131.