the forest-linÉ group was initiated in 1982, after the merger of forest in capdenac (southern france) and linÉ in albert (northern france). then in 2002, by creating the company linÉ-machines to take over henri liné machine outil, the new managers emphasize their will to carry on the development of forest-linÉ group. through the last ten years, they reached a main position among the world market of large dimensional, high precision and heavy duty powerful machine-tools.