According to information provided by the company itself, Ziegler Holzindustrie cut up to 2.2 million m³ of log wood a year in the Plößberg mill. Thus, the sawmill is of importance beyond this region. The purchasing radius extends deep into the Czech Republic, from where up to 1 million m³ of logs were imported each year.
The Holzkurier’s editorial team has done some market research and marked the respective cutting capacities of all nearby sawmills together with an assumed purchasing radius of 150 km on a map. The result is an overlap of eleven companies.
From north to south, these are Plößberg’s biggest neighbors in terms of log cutting:
- Mercer, Saalburg-Ebersdorf (1.4 M. m³/yr)
- Rettenmeier Holzindustrie, in Hirschberg and Wilburgstetten (800,000 m³/yr and 1.2 M. m³/yr)
- GELO with its sawmills in Weißenstadt and Wunsiedel (cumulative cutting volume around 600,000 m³/yr)
- Stora Enso in Plana/CZ (around 800,000 m³/yr)
- Pfeifer in Chanovice/CZ (approx. 900,000 m³/yr)
- Holzwerke Ladenburger, Kerkingen (around 1 M. m³/yr)
- Binderholz, Köschingen (about 1 M. m³/yr)
- Donausäger Schwaiger, Hengersberg, and Weinzierl, Vilshofen, with respective cutting volumes of 1.3 M. m³/yr and 650,000 m³/yr
From Saalburg-Ebersdorf, the northernmost point, it is only 230 km to Vilshofen, the southernmost point. Between the two, the log cutting capacity totals around 9.7 million m³ a year (excluding Ziegler) – if you only count the large sawmills. In the fictitious 150 km purchasing radii, there are another eleven sawmills with a cutting volume of over 50,000 m³ a year. Thus, a total of at least 10 million m³ of log wood are cut in this area each year.
