Egger Romania expands wood recycling activity

Alina Oprea
Egger Romania decided to expand the wood recycling activity, which started in 2012, by opening two new waste collection centers (Timberpak), in Brașov and Arad. Between 2012 and 2022, Egger Romania integrated recycled wood into production in a quantity equivalent to 34,000 trucks of wood waste. In 2022, the company exceeded the 21% share of recycled wood in the production of particleboard (PAL), with a goal of 25% for 2025. The company has reached five wood waste collection centers in Romania and will continue the strategy of recycling with two more new collection points for used wood material. Three other centers were previously opened in Bucharest (Chitila and Cernica) and Cluj. Egger's investment in the recycling activity in Romania currently amounts to €20 million.

The company's objective is to reduce the amount of wood resulting from forest exploitations and used in production by increasing the use of recycled material, which can come from old furniture, damaged pallets, wood chipboard waste, wooden packaging, wood waste from construction and demolitions, municipal wood waste or biomass.

"The pace of collecting wood waste and integrating it into Egger Romania production is much faster than we anticipated in 2012 when the Timberpak project started. In the ten years of recycling, we managed to use in the production of chipboard a quantity of 664,000 tons of wood from waste, with records recorded from year to year. Our objective is to increase the use of recycled wood in production to 30% by 2030 and to expand collection from economic operators to households through municipalities. For this, the support and involvement of local administrations are essential", said Alina Chifan, sales director at EGGER Romania.

Timberpak centers collect, store and chop wood waste from economic activity, after which it is transported to the recycling facility on the Egger platform in Rădăuți, which aims to optimize the use of raw materials. The annual processing capacity of the recycling facility is 150,000 tons of wood material.

The Egger factory in Rădăuţi is one of the largest greenfield investments in Romania, with over €550 million invested so far and over 850 employees. Of the total number of employees of the wood processing company, 70% are from Rădăuţi and the immediate vicinity. In 2022, Egger Romania recorded a turnover of RON2.28 billion (€456 million), up 10% compared to the previous year.

At the same time, from 2006 until now, the operations carried out on the Egger platform in Rădăuţi have generated over €250 million in local and national taxes and fees: profit tax, VAT, taxes and authorizations, as well as taxes on special constructions.

The Egger Group has owned a factory in Romania since 2008, in Rădăuți, Suceava County. The factory has over 850 employees. At Rădăuți, raw and melamine chipboard boards are produced for the furniture industry, as well as OSB boards for the wooden construction industry and the retail sector. Egger has invested over €550 million in the development of the strategic production unit in Rădăuți, in a fully integrated production location equipped with state-of-the-art technology.

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