POLAND – On June 28, 2019, EGGER Biskupiec began to operate its state-of-the-art particleboard production plant for furniture manufacturing.

It is the EGGER Group’s 19^th plant in the world, with capacity of 650,000 cubic meters of particleboard and an investment of €440 million. With 400 direct and 600 indirect jobs, EGGER Biskupiec will supersede the current particleboard import for Poland – one of the largest furniture producing countries in the world.

“I am delighted that we have started production at our EGGER Biskupiec plant, and together with our management team and employees we are honored to become an important supplier to the Polish furniture industry. We’ve been active in Poland since the early 1990s, and are successfully working with more than 150 local customers”, announced Michael Egger – the co-owner of the company. “We are also proud to contribute to local development in Warmia-Masuria region by offering almost 1,000 jobs during the construction and now, when operating.”

The EGGER Biskupiec plant was planned and built according to the European Union BAT (Best Available Techniques) regulation, which means the use of the best available technology to prevent or minimize emissions that impact the environment. As such the modern facilities use the latest available production technology and environmental knowledge to produce EGGER products. The plant has production lines for raw and laminated particleboard, which are now, step by step, being started up. In full operation, the production capacity will be 650,000 m³ raw particleboard per year, of which a large part will be finished with decorative surfaces.