PRESS RELEASE
BRILON, MARCH 2012
EGGER FOUNDS FORESTRY COMPANY
Enhanced wood supply security by purchasing standing timber
Supplying the EGGER plants with wood is becoming more and more
challenging. Increased demand from classic wood consumers and rising
competition due to the thermal use of wood means new methods of procuring
the raw material need to be explored. This is why the Tyrolean wood-based
material manufacturer is now taking another consistent step in backwards
integration: EGGER Forst GmbH will commence operation effective 1 st May
2012. Its task is to expand contract felling (purchasing standing timber) in
Germany, to conduct the mechanised harvesting of wood and to offer optimised
transportation and logistics solutions for delivery to the customer.
“Our primary objective is to enhance the supply guarantee for our three wood
processing EGGER plants in Germany, as well as supplying additional log wood
volumes to the nearby plants in France and Austria,” Bertram Cramer explains.
The company will be managed by Bertram Cramer, Head of Wood Buying in the
EGGER Group and Thomas Heymann, National Manager Finance and Administration
North-Western Europe at EGGER. The registered office of EGGER Forst GmbH will
be in Brilon (Upper Sauerland).
CLOSE PARTNERSHIPS WITH WOODLOT
PROVIDERS AND WOOD PROCESSORS
OWNERS,
SERVICE
EGGER Forst GmbH views itself as a service provider and partner between woodlot
owners and the wood processing industry. EGGER is thereby extending its offer of
cooperation to all government and municipal forestry operations, forestry associations
and independent, private woodlot owners.
Existing business relationships are to be further strengthened and new partnerships
developed by selling all available products to external partners as well.
EGGER Forst GmbH will offer integration via the CoSeDat portal to all of its partners
in the value chain. This ensures the optimised, transparent, electronic flow of data in
real time between woodlot owners, the service provider and the customer. Acceptance
and trust in the partnership are facilitated.
GOOD EXPERIENCES IN AUSTRIA AND GREAT BRITAIN
EGGER Forst GmbH will be active across Germany. It is not the first company in the
group to be engaged in supplying the plants with wood.
EGGER Forestry Ltd. in Great Britain has been conducting contract felling since the
beginning of the 90s in order to ensure the supply of raw materials to the Hexham and
Barony plants.
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HolzLogistikHandel (HLH) was founded in Austria in the year 2007. To date it has
focused on the acquisition and processing of wood chips, supplying the EGGER plant
in Unterradlberg among others.
EGGER was able to reach another milestone in forestry and wood harvesting with the
takeover of a Russian chipboard plant in Gagarin, which includes a forestry operation
with 80,000 ha (198,000 acres) of forest and a train of machines.
Supplying the EGGER plants with
wood is becoming more and more
challenging.
EGGER
Forst
GmbH
will
commence operation effective 1st
May 2012.
EGGER
maintains
close
partnerships with woodlot owners,
service providers and the wood
processing industry.
Bertram Cramer, Wood Buying
Department
Manager
EGGER
Group
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Thomas
Heymann,
Management
Finance
Administration
National
and
North-Western
Europe at EGGER
EGGER FORST GMBH
 EGGER Forst GmbH founded to
 Close partnerships with woodlot
secure the supply of raw materials for
owners, service providers and the wood
the wood processing plants in
processing industry
Germany
 Purchase of standing timber with
 New EGGER subsidiary located in
mechanised wood harvesting and
Brilon in the Upper Sauerland
logistics services all the way to the
 Electronic data exchange via CoSeDat customer
portal with all partners in the value
 Previous experience with this
chain
backwards integration model in the UK,
Russia and Austria
For queries:
FRITZ EGGER GmbH & Co. OG
Holzwerkstoffe
Christina Werthner
Weiberndorf 20
6380 St. Johann in Tirol
Austria
T +43 5 0600-10681
F +43 5 0600-90681
[email protected]
Plenos
Agentur für Kommunikation
Dr. Wolfgang Immerschitt
Paracelsusstrasse 4
5020 Salzburg
Austria
T +43 662 620 242-0
F +43 662 620 242-20
[email protected]
www.egger.com
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