Pfeifer Group

The Pfeifer Group is a company in the Central European wood industry. The family company, which has been in existence since 1948 and has its headquarters in Imst in Tyrol / Austria, operates eight locations in Austria, Germany and the Czech Republic and employs over 2,000 people. The core business of the Pfeifer Group is the industrial processing of coniferous logs. The company exports to 90 countries. In 2018 a total turnover of 720 million euros was generated.

history

In 1948 Barbara Pfeifer founded a sawmill in Imst in the Tyrolean Oberland . In the mid-1950s, the Pfeifer company began to market sawn timber in Italy, Germany and Switzerland. In 1971, with the commissioning of a 3-layer shuttering panel plant in Imst, she took the first step in wood processing and thus in the direction of the wood industry.

Through the successive takeover of existing timber companies, the Pfeifer Group has developed into an internationally operating group, especially since the early 2000s. The new locations were modernized. Since 2012, all of the company's locations have had a uniform appearance.

A group of companies with a number of individual companies became a group with a uniform organizational structure, common brand and corporate design .

Corporate structure

The Pfeifer Group is managed by the three managing directors: Clemens Pfeifer, Michael Pfeifer and Ewald Franzoi.

Products

The Pfeifer Group produces and sells the following products:

Lumber
Planed goods
Rough bung and slats
Packaging wood
Pallet blocks
Shuttering panels
Formwork beams
Natural wood panels
Solid wood panels
Glued laminated timber
CLT cross laminated timber
Pellets
Wood briquettes
Energy & green electricity

With the exception of biofuels and pallet blocks, the products are made from solid spruce wood. Residual wood is used to produce fuel, pressboard pallet blocks and green electricity.

The company only deals with business customers and does not sell to end customers.

Locations

At the headquarters in Imst : Plant I (sawn timber), Plant II (shuttering panels, formwork beams, wood briquettes) and Plant III (glued laminated timber, natural solid wood panels, wood pellets) with a total of 490 employees. Management and administration are here.
Kundl (180 employees): the company's own biomass power plant and the largest pellet plant in Central Europe. Sawn timber, planed goods, wood pellets and bio-electricity are produced.
Unterbernbach (280 employees): Sawn timber and blocks for the pallet industry. Eight pellet presses and a modern biomass cogeneration plant are also in operation here.
Uelzen (150 employees): Biomass heating power plant, production of sawn timber and pressboard blocks.
Lauterbach (190 employees): Sawn timber from spruce and pine as well as pressboard blocks and bio-electricity.
Trhanov (160 employees): 3-layer concrete formwork panels and solid wood formwork panels as well as pellets.
Chanovice (350 employees): product range from sawn timber to pellets.
Schlitz (55 employees): A cross-laminated timber plant was put into operation at the Schlitz site in 2019

production

The Pfeifer Group's annual production capacity is a total of 2,400,000 m³ sawn timber, 8,000,000 m² formwork panels, 9,000,000 running meters of formwork beams, 2,000,000 m² solid wood panels, 200,000 m³ glued laminated timber, 50,000 m³ cross laminated timber, 400,000 t pellets, 20,000 t briquettes, 600,000 m³ Pallet blocks and 295,000 MWh of bio-electricity.

Sales structure

Currently, around 20 percent of sales come from the biofuel market, 25 percent is accounted for by sawn timber and lumber for packaging, including pallet blocks, 17 percent is from concrete formwork and 13 percent from timber construction products.

In 2016, sales totaled 628 million euros, 82 percent of which was in the six core markets of Germany, Italy, Austria, Switzerland, France and Spain. The remaining 18 percent in 84 other countries around the world.

Web links

Pfeifer Group website:
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