News Overview

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.

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.