In 1914, Franz Schaffer began to run his sawmill near the Granitzenbach brook below the castle ruins of Eppenstein. His activities were on a modest scale, producing some 2.000 solid meters of timber per year, on leased property. Three years later, in 1917, Schaffer purchased the premises and subsequently lead the enterprise through two World Wars and The Great Depression.

In 1950, his son Gotthard took over the saw mill and used the period of post war economic recovery to expand the enterprise. In the seventies, 18 people were employed at the plant and 30 more as woodcutters. The volume of cut timber increased tenfold since the foundation of the enterprise

In 1986, a substantial step towards securing the future was taken, when Schaffer decided to concentrate on processing large dimensioned logs. Johann Schaffer, managing director since 1978 concentrated on this method in order to get “the best timber out of every log” for his customers.

In 1999, the Lamellierholzwerk SCHAFFER HOLZ TIROL (TLH) in Silz, became a wholly owned subsidiary of the company.

Today SCHAFFER HOLZ employs around 140 people at two production sites supplying renowned domestic and foreign wood processing companies.