Mercer Timber Products Friesau (Saalburg-Ebersdorf)
OperatingMercer Timber Products GmbHMercer Internationalmercerint.comID 01151
Mercer Timber Products Friesau (Saalburg-Ebersdorf) is an operating softwood sawmill in Saalburg-Ebersdorf, Germany, owned by Mercer International, with a capacity of 934 000 cubic metres of sawn timber per year.
Location and logistics
- Nearest port
- Bremen · 354 kmStraight-line distance to the nearest major port. Method
- Rail siding
- No siding mappedOpenStreetMap track way/634424963 ↗, 286 m from the site point. Method
- Nearest railway
- 0.3 km
Map
Capacity and output
- Capacity
- about 934 000 m3/y sawn timberreported as 550 MMBF/y · Annual report
- Production
- Not reported
- Type
- Softwood
Raw material and products
Sawn timber
Also produces
Certifications
FSCPEFC
History and sources
Timeline
- expansion2018Mercer announced a EUR 32 million investment in automated quality detection and sorting at the Friesau sawmill.Source ↗
- ownership change2017Mercer 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 ↗
- founded1992The Saalburg-Ebersdorf sawmill was constructed in 1992.Source ↗
Sources
- otherchecked 2026-07-25holzkurier.com ↗
- otherchecked 2026-07-26openstreetmap.org ↗
- otherchecked 2026-09-24sec.gov ↗
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- company websitechecked 2026-07-26mercerint.com ↗
Related facilities
Mercer International
Largest in Germany
How to cite
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