Large Diameter Round Wood
Styrian timber is known to be one of the best offered on the international timber market. This wood, mostly cut down in winter, matures in the protected alpine regions of Upper Styria. Due to the severe environmental conditions, this wood grows slower and has a particularly fine structure – a sign of healthy growth in virgin natural surroundings.
 
As a sawmill processing logs with large diameters, SCHAFFER HOLZ quickly made its name known in the late 1980’s. The latest „band saw technology”, which is very precise and flexible, enables us to maximise the opportunities to extract the best timber and enable us to cut logs with a diameter of up to 120 cm.

Rift Cut
The rift cut is a radial cut, in which the annual rings are set as square to the width of the board as possible. The rift cut considerably improves the dimensional stability of timber and prevents the warping of timber cross-sections.

SCHAFFER HOLZ specialises in the cutting of round timber with top end log diameters of over 50 cm in spruce and 36 cm in larch. These logs produce an especially large proportion of timber with upright annual rings and without heartwood. It hardly cracks, expands, contracts or shrinks. Furthermore it is characterised by a very high tensile strength.

Austrian Larch
Larch is extremely stable and has good tensile properties, particularly suited for outdoor applications. Glued timber made of larch is used for structural bridge construction, for example.

SCHAFFER HOLZ is one of the largest selling and processing companies in Austria for indigenous larch. We cut only finely grown large dimensioned larch timber from the Styrian mountains in Austria. In our export markets of Italy, Germany, Switzerland, the Netherlands, France, Slovenia, Slovakia and Spain, larch from SCHAFFER HOLZ is held in high esteem.