Dr. Dieter Kainz has been Managing Director of the HASSLACHER NORICA TIMBER-group since 2010.

Christoph Kulterer has been the Managing Director and Chief Executive of the HASSLACHER Corporate Group from 2002 to 2010.

KR DI Herbert Kulterer led the company’s fortunes for more than 5 decades. Today he is active in the company as experienced advisor.

Jakob Haßlacher was the founder of the timber industry in Upper Carinthia.

A new century

2011	Take-over of the company „ÖKOHAUS Systembau“ in Stall/Mölltal and „Buchacher Holzleimbau“ in Hermagor. The group now has 7 divisions at its disposal with around 900 employees.
2010	The HASSLACHER holding GmbH is the umbrella organisation for all companies in the HASSLACHER NORICA TIMBER group.
2009	HASSLACHER takes a 35% share in the saw mill and shuttering board factory of the Slovenian timber industry company LIP BLED d.o.o.
2008	Takeover of Kogler Holz GmbH. Located at the third site in Liebenfels means the group reaches an annual saw capacity of 1,000,000 fm round timber.
2007	DI Herbert Kulterer passes the company to his sons after 50 years. Christoph Kulterer takes over the mainstay of the industrial operation, Stefan Kulterer the forestry.
2007	Expansion of power production with a second biomass cogeneration plant.
2006	Reconstruction of the new gluelam production with an annual production capacity of more than 65,000m³ in Sachsenburg.
2005	NORITEC gluelam production plant in Stall/Mölltal destroyed by a devastating fire.
2003	HASSLACHER Energie GmbH founded.
2001	100 years HASSLACHER and company management passed to Christoph Kulterer, the son.
2001	Entry into gluelam production and founding of NORITEC in Stall in Mölltal.
2000	HASSLACHER district heating supply established in the autumn. Sachsenburg and Möllbrücke are supplied with district heating.

The second generation

1998	Per 1. December, purchase of Gebrüder Feltrinelli Drauland Holzindustrie GmbH with two saw mills, in Arnoldstein and in St. Veit an der Glan. This creates the largest Carinthian saw mill group which also counts among the ten largest saw mill groups in Austria.
1998	On 9. April fire catastrophe – destruction of the saw shop and the staff facilities. Reconstruction using latest technology and increased capacity of more than 100 %.
1997	Foundation of the HASSLACHER Holzzentrum GesmbH and construction of a new timber market outlet.
1996	Equiping with chipper plant and flexible recut circular saw. Capacity approx. 130,000 fm / per annum in single shift operation.
1984-95	Continuous adaptation to new technologies, expansion of drying capacity, new building for planing operation, expansion of works site, new build of a large rack sorter and the round timber sorting plant.
1974	Paperboard factory in Spittal/Drau closed down. Expansion of the electricity works on the River Lieser.
1956-58	Jakob Haßlacher transfers his forest interests and his industrial plant in the Drau valley to his nephew. At the age of 22, DI Herbert Kulterer takes over the management of J. Hasslacher, Holzindustrie in Sachsenburg and the associated paperboard factory in Spittal on the Drau.
1952-54	Jakob Haßlacher acquires all shares in Brüder Hasslacher in Hermagor and passes this operation to his son Dr. Herbert Haßlacher.

1942	Purchase of the Leykam paperboard factory Leykam in Spittal an der Drau with the intention to erect a fibreboard plant there. After the war expansion of the paperboard factory and erection of an electricity works.
1929-32	Jakob Haßlacher acquires large forest tracts near Oberdrauburg and in the Lesach valley from the erstwhile ownership of the Porcias.
1919	Jakob and Franz Haßlacher founded Brüder Hasslacher & Co in Hermagor and buy the Porcia estate Grünburg near Hermagor.
1917	Founding of “NORICA"- registered cooperative as sales organisation for more than 200 saw mills in Carinthia. As Chairman, Jakob Haßlacher managed the cooperative together with his brother Franz and led it to become of great importance in the then Austrian timber industry.
1914	Jakob Haßlacher Takes over the property and saw mill after the death of his father-in-law, and progressively expands the saw mill.
1901	Founding of Jakob Haßlacher OHG to operate a wood griding mill in Feistritz near Sachsenburg by the miner’s son Jakob Haßlacher (oldest son of 19 children) together with his father.