Ex-politician on board

The path to success of the domestic timber giant

Panels and furniture parts are produced in three factories in Austria.

(Bild: Frischeis)

Austria is not only a power in the timber business with its sawmill and chipboard groups, but also in trading. The Frischeis Group from Stockerau in Lower Austria is active throughout Europe. An ex-politician is to drive further growth as the new head of Austria.

"We describe ourselves as the leading timber trader in Europe and are certainly the only one to operate nationwide," confirms Werner Stix, Managing Director of the Frischeis Group (JAF). With 71 branches in 17 countries and almost 3,000 employees, JAF, which was founded in 1948 and named after its founders Johann and Antonia Frischeis, is as large as it is little known because it only supplies commercial customers such as joineries.