ON THE SUCCESS TRAIL. Krauss-Maffei is likely to post sales of more than EUR 500 million for the 200312004 financial year, and thereby surpass its record results from 1999/2000. This was one of the remarks made by Josef Martl, chairman of the board, at the company's preliminary press conference in the run-up to the "K" plastics fair. The interim results for all three business areas make for good reading.