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The new building in Sachsenburg

The HASSLACHER Group is investing €900,000 in a new Logistics Centre and is now conducting all the value-added processes on its wood resources on one site.

As the last milestone in a series of investments the new logistics centre is being officially opened today. "Construction of the Centre was necessary to ensure smooth movement of goods in and out. The strong expansion in recent years required a rationalisation of the traffic conditions on the company’s site. Up to 200 trucks are despatched from the new terminal daily,” states Christoph Kulterer, Managing Director of the HASSLACHER Group. The costs of construction add up to some €900,000.

September 2007 saw the completion of major investments in the NORITEC laminated wood factory and the second biomass power station on the Sachsenburg site. "Production of NORITEC’s laminated wood has begun well. We are very pleased with the way things have developed over past months in spite of a difficult market environment,” states Christoph Kulterer happily.

Our natural wood resource is now processed and finished entirely in Sachsenburg: alongside the traditional timber products such as cut and planed timber, and laminated wood, bioenergy is also created in our own two biomass power stations. "The concentration of the various factories on one site also has an enormous advantage in terms of logistics: we can operate more flexibly and effectively and can also load up our trucks with mixed goods", comments Christoph Kulterer on the advantages of the new terminal.

The new terminal has been constructed close to the new exit from the B100 and in addition to the despatch building and sufficient parking spaces for the trucks also includes all the necessary technical equipment such as weighbridges and barrier systems. A well-organised vehicle management system increases security on the site, since in the future only authorised vehicles will be allowed to enter the site.

The architectural practice of trecolore architects has been responsible for planning the work. The logistics terminal is located at a lower level than the adjacent production building and so merges well into the site. The curved canopy dominates the architecture of the building, the laminated wood that has been used as the material being amongst the HASSLACHER Group’s most important export products.

What does holistic, sustainable and complete utilisation of the valuable wood resource entail?

In the HASSLACHER production cycle there is no waste - the natural wood resource is utilised almost completely.

In the production of cut timber ancillary products accrue in the form of waste bark and saw chippings. This waste bark that accrues is burnt in the same way as the forest management material in the form of energy wood in the biomass power station and converted into bio-heat and green electricity. The bio-heat is utilised both for drying the company’s own cut timber production and also for the supply of heating to 200 households in Sachsenburg und Möllbrücke. The waste heat from the turbine in the heating plant is in turn used to dry the saw chippings, which are processed into pellets in the Seppele GmbH company, which is very close by. In this way the HASSLACHER Group is generating more energy than it needs for its own production processes.

The HASSLACHERGroup

With an annual turnover of €120 million is one of the 10 largest industrial timber operations in Austria. Around 300 employees work at the two sites of Sachsenburg and Arnoldstein at the present time. In the family-run company with more than 100 years of tradition the products include cut timber, laminated wood, two and three ply beams, edge-glued wall and ceiling elements, and bioenergy. The group exports some 75% of its output, the most important markets being Italy, Germany, Japan, USA, Spain and the Middle East.

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