Press releases

From 08th-14th May 2014 Starkraft will be presenting itself and products to the customers at the Interpack trade fair in Düsseldorf.

The Flying Rhino has landed! At last: after a record construction period of just over 13 months Europe’s largest and most modern kraft paper machine has gone into full operation and will be able to produce over 80.000 tonnes of high quality, white kraft paper per annum.

Sebastian Heinzel to switch from the Supervisory Board to the operative business area and assume responsibility for strategic planning

The Heinzel Group is pleased to announce that the takeover of the former SCA publication paper mill in Laakirchen, Austria, agreed in December 2012, was completed on April 2, 2013. With a turnover of EUR 308 m in 2012, Laakirchen Papier AG, as the company will be known in future, is set to make a sizeable contribution to Heinzel Group growth.

The Heinzel Holding has purchased the entire stock of Papierfabrik SCA Graphic Laakirchen AG. The transaction will probably be completed in the first quarter of 2013, following the granting of approval by the anti-trust authorities.

Europapier Group finally acquired 100% of the local paper merchant businesses in Hungary, Slovakia, Slovenia, Croatia and Serbia from PaperlinX.

Proceeds to be reinvested in Austria in projects for the future

Heinrich Georg Stahl, the long-serving Heinzel Holding GmbH CFO, is transferring to the EMACS Privatstiftung.

Alfred Heinzel, chairman and CEO of the Heinzel Group, has announced the construction of a new paper machine at the Pöls site. The total investment volume amounts to 115 million Euros.

As a result of the purchase of Europapier AG and the complete takeover of AS Estonian Cell, in 2011 the total volume of Heinzel Group sales rose to 2,250,000 tonnes.