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Our History
binderholz at 6 locations
With its six locations in Fügen, Jenbach, St. Georgen, Hallein, Unternberg and Kösching/Germany, binderholz is one of the leading producers of timber products in Europe.
At its headquarters in Fügen, it operates a sawmill with a cutting capacity of 1.1 mill. solid cubic meters of round timber, a planing mill and a production facility for solid wood panels.
A works such as this requires large amounts of thermal energy for drying the wood, an energy need which has always been met through re-utilization of the biomass created on site.
Since the sawmill always created more biomass than could be consumed during production, an idea was hatched in collaboration with the town of Fügen: to supply the town with eco-friendly heat through a district heating system.
2000
Construction of two biomass hot-water boilers
binderholz takes over control of the facility incl. providing fuel supply
Construction of the requisite district heating network by the Fügen energy company
Within the briefest imaginable time frame, essentially the entire village was hooked into the district heating network, bringing with it the following benefits:
- significant improvement in air quality
- exceptional customer convenience
- inexpensive heating costs
This success exceeded even the most optimistic expectations. The original heating capacity of the biomass boilers was soon unable to meet demand and any further expansion of the district heating network had to be put on temporary hold.
