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Andreas Kogler and CEO Christoph Kulterer

HASSLACHER DRAULAND Holzindustrie GmbH takes over shares of Kogler Holz GmbH in Liebenfels.

“I have put a lot of thought into this decision“, states Andreas Kogler, General Manager and former owner of Kogler GmbH. “Instead of leading a destructive displacement contest, both companies are now acting together. This is also what is best for the firms’ employees“, Kogler explains his motives. The HASSLACHER DRAULAND Holzindustrie GmbH from Sachsenburg will fully take over the Liebenfels sawmill with its about 100 employees. “Liebenfels will become an important additional production location for us, as well as a logistic centre-point in the Carinthian region“, states Christoph Kulterer, HASSLACHER’s General Director. “We will be able to fully profit by the additional production capacity and are looking forward to use synergies in the fields of log wood logistics and transport.”

In the past, the two Carinthian firms have gone through tough competition phases. In a difficult international market, the best possible productivity is necessary in order to persist on the key market. Large, strong companies can make use of synergies in the fields of production and logistics and thus pay forest enterprises as log wood suppliers correct prices in line with the market.
Until the end of the current economic years, KOGLER Holz GmbH will be continued without major administrative or operative changes. The position of General Director will be taken by Stefan Kulterer who is also responsible for HASSLACHER’s log wood purchase. The companies’ future procedure and merging details will be developed over the next couple of months in a mutual concept together with the firms’ employees.

KOGLER GmbH

Founded in 1916, the family business has been run by Andreas Kogler since 1994. Over the last couple of years, the firm has invested in the modernisation of the existing sawmill, the construction of a sorting plant, the expansion of the plant’s drying capacity and the construction of a plane factory. Its annual production is about 330.000 fm. With about 100 employees, the company has produced an annual turnover of 45 million Euro. Apart from Kogler Holz GmbH, Andreas Kogler is further active in the field of renewable energy, directs 4 hydropower plants and runs two forest enterprises together with his wife, Mag. Elfriede Kogler. In the future, an investment company in a new office in Liebenfels is planned in addition to the administration of assets.

HASSLACHER Company Group

With an annual turnover of 120 million Euro, the company with its about 300 employees is one of Austria’s largest firms in the wood industry. The two sawmills in Sachsenburg and Arnoldstein show an annual production of 650.000 fm. The location Sachsenburg is also the group’s head office and comprises a plane factory, a glued wood factory and two biomass plants. The family-run business with more than 100 years of tradition sees the production of lumber, glulam, double and triple beams, glued wall and ceiling units, bio-energy and more. The group’s exports account for 75 percent and its most important export markets are Italy, Germany, Japan, Spain and the Levant region.

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