Mercer Timber Products Friesau (Saalburg-Ebersdorf)
Mercer Timber Products Friesau (Saalburg-Ebersdorf) is an operating softwood sawmill in Saalburg-Ebersdorf, Germany, with a capacity of 1 450 000 cubic metres of log intake per year.
- Company
- Mercer Timber Products GmbH
- Group
- Mercer International
- WoodComp ID
- 01151 (how IDs work)
- Country
- Germany
- City
- Saalburg-Ebersdorf
- Status
- Operating
- Capacity
- 1 450 000 m3/y log intake
- Type
- Softwood
- Region
- Thüringen
- Website
- mercerint.com
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Mercer Timber Products Friesau (Saalburg-Ebersdorf) is the 4th largest sawmill in Germany of the 92 with a log intake capacity figure in WoodComp's register.
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- Mercer Torgau ·Stendal Mill ·Celgar Mill ·Peace River Mill ·Rosenthal Mill
- Largest sawmills in Germany
- Rettenmeier Ploessberg ·ante-holz Somplar ·Ilim Nordic Timber Wismar ·binderholz Baruth ·ante-holz Rottleberode
- Nearest facilities
- Rettenmeier Hirschberg (14 km) ·Kuenzel-Holz Issigau (15 km) ·Sägewerk Schwarzmühle (42 km) ·GELO Holzwerke Weissenstadt (47 km) ·GELO Timber Wunsiedel (58 km)
Timeline
- 2018expansion
Mercer announced a EUR 32 million investment in automated quality detection and sorting at the Friesau sawmill.
Source ↗ - 2017ownership change
Mercer International agreed to buy substantially all assets of Klausner Holz Thueringen for about $55.1 million plus roughly $9.0 million of working capital, with closing expected around the start of the second quarter of 2017.
Source ↗ - 1992founded
The Saalburg-Ebersdorf sawmill was constructed in 1992.
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Sources
Data confidence: Medium (74 of 100) how this is computed
- otherchecked 2026-07-25holzkurier.com
- otherchecked 2026-07-26openstreetmap.org
- otherchecked 2026-09-06sec.gov
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- company websitechecked 2026-07-26mercerint.com
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