Egger Group

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EGGER Group

logo
legal form GmbH & Co. KG
founding 1961
Seat St. Johann in Tirol , Austria
management Walter Schiegl, Ulrich Bühler and Thomas Leissing
Number of employees 10,100 (2020)
sales EUR 2.83 billion
Branch Wood-based materials
Website https://www.egger.com

Egger Holzwerkstoffe GmbH is a manufacturer of wood-based materials with headquarters in St. Johann in Tirol, Austria .

Companies

The Egger Group is owned by the brothers Michael and Fritz Egger, who as owners help determine the strategic guidelines. The operational business of the family company is managed by the Egger group management.

The company employs around 10,100 people. The company produces wood-based materials at 19 locations in Austria , Germany , France , Great Britain , Romania , Russia , Turkey , Poland and Argentina with an annual production capacity of 8.8 million m³ (as of 2017/18). Egger operates 25 sales offices worldwide, mostly in Europe, but also four offices in Asia and one each in the USA, Australia and Chile. The product range includes wood-based materials ( chipboard , OSB and MDF boards ) as well as sawn timber . The company thus generated sales of EUR 2.83 billion in the 2019/2020 financial year. The company's spectrum also includes products for furniture and interior design, structural timber construction and flooring (including accessories).

Company history

Fritz Egger in St. Johann in Tirol
Egger Holzwerkstoffe Brilon

The Egger company was founded in 1961 by the sawmill owner Fritz Egger sen. (1922–1982) founded.

In 1961 the first chipboard plant in St. Johann in Tirol was commissioned , soon followed by the takeover of the fiberboard plant in Wörgl in 1966 and the commissioning of a chipboard plant in Unterradlberg in 1970. In 1981 Egger acquired 50% of the Austrian Novopan in Leoben. At this point in time, the market share for chipboard (Egger's core product at the time) in Austria was 68%. In 1984 one of the first modern Contiroll chipboard plants was built in St. Johann by the Siempelkamp company .

In 1984 the company expanded to Great Britain with the takeover of the Weyroc Group and the new construction of the chipboard plant in Hexham , and in the 1990s to Germany with the locations Gifhorn (1989 takeover of Dekoflex and entry into laminate production), Brilon (1990), Bünde (1994 Takeover of Otte ), Bevern (1995), Wismar and Marienmünster (1999 takeover of Hagedorn ). In 1998 the company built a raw chipboard plant in Barony ( Scotland ). The company also settled in France with the locations Rion-des-Landes (1994 takeover of ROL Déko ) and Rambervillers (2000). The expansion was mainly through takeovers. In the 21st century, new production sites were built in Shuja, Russia (2005) and Rădăuți, Romania (2008). In 2010 the edging manufacturer Roma Plastik in Gebze , Turkey, was acquired, and in 2011 a chipboard plant in Gagarin, Russia . With the takeover of the Concordia (Argentina) site , there has also been a plant outside of Europe since 2017. Since 2017/2018, the company has been building further chipboard plants in Biskupiec (Poland) and Lexington, NC (USA).

In addition, there were always extensions, modernizations and the construction of existing plants. In 2008 the first group-owned sawmill was put into operation in Brilon. Wood residues are used thermally in our own biomass power plants.

See also

Web links

Commons : Fritz Egger  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Facts & Figures. Retrieved August 18, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Michael Egger changes from the group management to the advisory board ( Memento from November 12, 2014 in the Internet Archive ). In: Möbelmarkt Online from November 13, 2008, accessed August 18, 2020
  3. ↑ Egger Holzwerkstoffe GmbH St. Johann in Tirol Consolidated Half-Year Financial Report as of October 31, 2018. Accessed on January 22, 2019 .
  4. ↑ a b Facts & Figures - EGGER. Retrieved August 18, 2020 .
  5. ↑ Products. In: Company website. Retrieved November 16, 2015 .
  6. ↑ Egger had to drill thick boards at the beginning . In: www.derwesten.de - Retrieved October 29, 2014
  7. ↑ EGGER Group company brochure , p. 8 (PDF; 10,597 KB)
  8. ↑ a b Egger - Our story. Retrieved November 8, 2017 .
  9. ↑ EGGER company brochure. Retrieved August 18, 2020 .
  10. ↑ a b c d Ulrich Bühler: Recognizing and using opportunities. Egger sees modern wood-based materials as the building material of the future. In: www.forum-holzbau.com. 2000, accessed November 16, 2015 .
  11. ↑ EGGER company brochure. Retrieved August 18, 2020 .
  12. ↑ a b EGGER is expanding: "We have big steps ahead of us!" In : wirtschaft.tirol. July 27, 2017, accessed on March 27, 2019 (German).
  13. ↑ Egger puts sawmill into operation. In: egger.com. July 9, 2008, accessed November 16, 2015 .
  14. ↑ EGGER environmental brochure. P. 4 , accessed on August 18, 2020 .

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