The Austrian family-owned company Egger is one of the leading brands for wood solutions in Europe. Since 1961, EGGER has been making more out of the natural resource wood with 10,100 employees at 20 locations worldwide: from sawn timber and wood-based materials to decorative surfaces. The European plant in Wismar, which primarily produces the laminate flooring and OSB product lines, went into operation in 1999. The entire European market is supplied from Wismar Bay. For raw material procurement and export to Asia and Australia, the location has proven to be ideal. Products go from the Egger plant at Haffeld to more than 90 countries thanks to the excellent infrastructure. The environment near the harbor also favors the use of residual wood, dust and wood waste within value-added chains, for example, also for energy generation. The environmental protection concept is also reflected in the FSC® and PEFC certification of the integrated site. In 2017, the second plant at the Wismar site was ceremonially opened. With an investment of €20 million, new standards can be set in the industrial production of laminate and design flooring. A newly built logistics and storage hall also offers the possibility to handle all upstream and downstream manufacturing processes on 3,000 m². With the commissioning of Plant II, the establishment and development of a research and development department will also be accelerated in order to further expand the market position and strengthen the Wismar location.