Apr 12, 2005. /Lesprom Network/. Austrian sawmill group Klausner will invest some 65 million euro ($84.4 million) by the beginning of 2006 to build a sawmill in the southwestern German town of Landsberg in the state of Bavaria, the group said on April 12, 2005. The new sawmill on an area of about 30 hectares is expected to create 350 new jobs. The group has already signed the necessary long-term agreements with the Bavarian forestry authority The new Klausner Holz sawmill in Bavaria will be similar to that in the eastern German state of Saxony and will have an average annual capacity of 1.5 million solid cubic meters of timber. The new sawmill will have a module design and can be enlarged to double capacity in the medium term. It will also have a planing workshop for the direct processing of dried trimmed timber. Klausner Holz in Bavaria is to be positioned as an export sawmill as are the other three Klausner sawmills - Klausner Holz Thuringia, Klausner Nordic Timber and Klausner Holz in Saxony. Klausner has three sawmills and planning workshops. The group produced and sold 2.2 million cubic meters of trimmed timber in 2004, of which more than 80 pct were exported to the United States, Australia and Japan. The Klausner group was founded in 1918 by Max Klausner. It currently employs a workforce of more than 1,000 and, according to own data, generates an annual consolidated turnover of about 420 million euro ($545.2 million).