Austrian Neuhofer Holz began the next extension phase at its headquarters in Zell am Moos in November. As such, the start of construction actually took place a few months earlier than the original plans for spring 2021. The investment project given the designation “Vision 2025” is expected to be finished by February 2022, almost three years ahead of schedule. This altered scheduling enables the company to take advantage of funding resources limited to a certain period of time. In the project as whole, roughly 14,550 m² of new areas are to be created at the profiles factory that has already been extended several times during the course of the last few years. 8,800 m² of this will be accounted by two new production halls, 1,050 m² by a new building for producing solid wood profiles, 2,750 m² by a three-storey office building, and 685 m² by a new showroom.
The two production halls are scheduled to commence operation in September and October. The building for solid wood profiles is expected to be ready to move into in December. Completion of the office building and the exhibition is planned for February 2022. This new round of extension measures utilises the remainder of the total usable area of approximately 100,000 m² available at the existing works. Future expansion investment projects are therefore to be realised on the opposite side of the road. Negotiations on the required property purchases are already underway. Plans have been made to consolidate logistics in particular on these development sites. A high-bay warehouse might be built in an initial step. The existing works, however, is geared to production.
