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HS Timber Group, formerly known as the Holzindustrie Schweighofer, announces that the production capacities of posts and beams (glulam products for house construction in Asia) at the R\u0103d\u0103u\u021bi\/Romania site is expected to be reduced by one third starting 1 April 2023.<\/p>\n
The production capacity reduction will affect up to 160 employees at the R\u0103d\u0103u\u021bi site.The company is endeavouring to offer many of them continued employment within the Romanian group. In the other cases, efforts are being made to keep the social impact as low as possible.<\/p>\n
Already in January 2022, the restructuring of the group's operations in the Romanian region of Suceava became necessary at the end of the first quarter of 2022.The reasons for the reduction of production capacities at the R\u0103d\u0103u\u021bi site are - as they have been in 2022 - unfavourable location factors.<\/p>\n
The company argues that the purchase of Romanian softwood roundwood has been restricted by law for HS Timber Group since 2016. The neighbouring Ukraine and Russia are no longer raw material suppliers due to export bans in force there and acts of war.<\/p>\n
HS Timber Group operates two sawmills and a blockboard factory at other locations in Romania. These are not affected by the reduction in production capacity.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"