Germany

Uelzen

Sawn & profiled timber
Green power
Pallet blocks

Uelzen offers special site benefits thanks to its position and its closeness to the see.

Delivery by ship

Uelzen combines sawmill operations, pallet block production and waterway logistics. Around 450,000 solid cubic metres of round timber are processed into sawn timber and pallet blocks each year; the biomass plant generates electricity.

The plant has 190 employees.

Product fields and year capacities in Uelzen

Contacts

Pfeifer Holz GmbH
Bremer Straße 5
D-29525 Uelzen

Tel. +49 581 8071 0
info@pfeifergroup.com
UID: DE811447069

Graphic: Overview of the site in Uelzen

SITE

Uelzen

Yearly capacities:
Pallet blocks: 250,000 m³
Sawn packaging timber: 274,000 m³
Sawn timber: 36,000 m³
Green power: 59 Mio. kWh

Production at the plant since 1991
Employees: 190

History and development

1991
The beginning

By laying the foundation stone for the saw plant and the block production, in Uelzen begins the history of the industrial timber production.

2006 
Investment and renovation

The modernisation of the saw mill brings Uelzen to the newest stand of the saw technique.

2005
Pfeifer acquisition

The production plants in Uelzen are acquired by the Pfeifer Group.

2008
100% recycling

A biomass combined heat and power plant has operated at Uelzen since 2008.

2016
Modernisation and expansion

Pfeifer invests in the Uelzen site: New drying chambers are built, the warehouse surfaces are expanded.