The operative result (EBIT) of Euro 94.2 million surpassed that of the previous year by 39.8%. A significant factor in this considerable rise was the positive cost effect derived from the favourable price trend for both raw materials and energy.
Apart from the locations in Laakirchen and Pöls, which for their part both stood out owing to the successful and extremely rapid solution of their damage-related problems, sales revenues were raised in nearly all of Heinzel Group’s subsidiaries.
Sales at Estonian Cell, which in 2015 had record exports of around 174,000 tonnes, were up by 12.5% at Euro 68.7 million, while Wilfried Heinzel AG supplied eleven new markets and was able to increase its sales by 13.8% to Euro 516.5 million.
Europapier achieved gains in all its product segments and improved its sales by 5.8% to EUR 512.1 million, and Bunzl & Biach once again closed a financial year in highly successful fashion with a record sales volume of 674,544 tonnes and sales of Euro 92.4 million, which represented growth of 6.2%.
Owing to the outage of the PM10, which lasted for several weeks, and a fall in sales prices Laakirchen Papier sales fell by 13.8% to Euro 234.1 million.
Zellstoff Pöls AG sales were also 2.9% down on the previous year at Euro 184.2 million, but following the completion of repairs in record time, the company was already able to put its liquor recovery boiler back into operation in December 2015 and can therefore look to the future with optimism
