Obituary: Dr Ferdinando Campoantico, a leading innovator in wood based panels

25 June 2012


Dr Ferdinando Campoantico, a highly respected engineer in the wood based panel industry, as well as an inventor, innovator, a great authority on techniques for producing wood based panels passed away on June 12, 2012 at the age of 85.

He founded Texpan, now CMC Texpan, famous worldwide for its forming technology, along with Dr Alberto Zevi and Dr. Franco Ottolenghi in the 1970s, and co-founded IMAL Srl, Italy, with again Dr Alberto Zevi and Paolo Benedetti.