Dieffenbacher and Inserco Industrie Service GmbH have ended their sales partnership for Latin America after 20 years, closing a cooperation that began with a distribution agreement in 2006 and delivered the first plant orders in Colombia and Brazil in 2009 and 2010, Dieffenbacher announced.
The partnership expanded Dieffenbacher’s market presence in Latin America and added reference plants in Mexico, Colombia, Ecuador, Brazil and Chile. The companies agreed that they may continue projects for mutual customers on a case-by-case basis.
Ongoing projects will continue through completion. Customers are also invited to visit the companies at joint booth D050 at ForMóbile in São Paulo, Brazil, from June 30 to July 3.
The move follows Dieffenbacher’s restructuring of its Wood business unit in Latin America in 2024. The company moved its Brazil subsidiary from Curitiba about 200 km south to Itajaí and named Diego Coelho de Oliveira as Managing Director of Dieffenbacher do Brasil, while he also kept his role as Area Sales Director for the region.
At that time, the Dieffenbacher Latin America team had grown to six employees and covered sales of new plants, single machines and modernizations. The service portfolio also included plant inspections, optimization work, spare and wear parts packages, inventory consultations, training, remote support and online spare parts services.
The partnership ended against the backdrop of continued pressure on German woodworking machinery production. A separate forecast by the VDMA Woodworking Machinery Trade Association of Germany projected German woodworking machinery production to decline by about 7% in 2026, after single-digit declines in 2025 and 2024. German woodworking machinery exports fell 11% to Euro 2.26 billion in 2025, before rising 2% year-on-year to Euro 570 million in the first quarter of 2026.