Frank Badeda joins the management board of Holzindustrie Schweighofer GmbH in Kodersdorf, Germany. Together with the entire Holzindustrie Schweighofer team and the mill managers Thomas Kienz and Jan Krause, he will work to strengthen the mill’s competitiveness and to promote its expansion.

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Holzindustrie Schweighofer appoints Frank Badeda as new Managing Director at Kodersdorf mill

Frank Badeda joins the management board of Holzindustrie Schweighofer GmbH in Kodersdorf, Germany. Together with the entire Holzindustrie Schweighofer team and the mill managers Thomas Kienz and Jan Krause, he will work to strengthen the mill’s competitiveness and to promote its expansion.

The sawmill in Kodersdorf has been part of the Austrian Schweighofer Group since 2015. To increase the value addition at the site, Holzindustrie Schweighofer is planning to significantly upgrade the sawmill’s product range. During the next two years, the company will invest around Euro 30 million in further processing and kiln drying. Thus, in addition to lumber and planned timber products, the sawmill in Kodersdorf will also produce glued laminated timber in the future which is especially used in the Japanese housing construction sector.

The Schweighofer Group is primarily active in the wood processing industry, forest management, bioenergy production and real estate. The industry division of the Schweighofer Group operates three sawmills and two wooden panel productions in Romania and one sawmill in Germany.