Wood processing and engineered timber manufacturer across Central Europe
Pfeifer Group processes ~5.4M cubic meters of wood annually across sawmills, CLT, glulam, and concrete formwork production. The stack is enterprise-grade (SAP, Azure, AWS, Power BI) paired with manufacturing control systems (Siemens, TIA Portal, CNC), signaling digital maturity in a traditionally analog sector. Hiring is heavily weighted toward manufacturing and intern-level roles, with active projects concentrated on energy efficiency, machinery modernization, and production optimization—indicating operational focus on margin recovery through process improvement rather than new product expansion.
Pfeifer Group is a family-owned Austrian wood processing company founded in 1948, now in its third generation with 2,600 employees across 13 sites in Austria, Germany, Czechia, and Finland. The company operates an integrated sawmill and engineered wood pipeline, converting raw timber into finished products including sawn lumber, planed boards, concrete formwork panels, CLT, glulam, solid-wood panels, pallet blocks, briquettes, bedding, pellets, and bioelectricity. Operations span the full value chain from harvesting to energy byproduct recovery. The business is self-owned and headquartered in Imst, Tyrol.
Pfeifer Group processes approximately 5.4 million cubic meters of raw wood annually across its sawmill network, converting it into sawn lumber, engineered boards (CLT, glulam), concrete formwork products, and biomass byproducts like pellets and bioelectricity.
Pfeifer Group operates 13 production and distribution sites across Austria, Germany, Czechia, and Finland. The company is headquartered in Imst, Austria, and actively hires across all four countries.
The company runs SAP for enterprise resource planning, Azure and AWS for cloud infrastructure, Siemens and TIA Portal for manufacturing control, and Power BI for analytics. Manufacturing operations rely on CNC machinery, with infrastructure managed via Terraform and PowerShell automation.
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