Virtual tour – as good as being there yourself

Sarner Holz in South Tyrol

For exam­ple, there is Sarn­er Holz, a mod­ern sawmill and win­dow scant­lings work­shop. The prod­ucts range from planed unfin­ished planks for ter­races and façades to fur­ni­ture-grade lum­ber from South Tyrolean alpine tim­ber and spe­cial lam­i­nat­ed scant­lings of all kinds. 15000 tonnes of wood waste are pro­duced in the form of bark every year. This is burned in a stepped grate fir­ing sys­tem, pro­duc­ing 2400 MWh of elec­tric­i­ty and 19200 MWh of ther­mal ener­gy as process heat for dry­ing ovens, press­es, steam cham­bers and build­ing heat­ing.

Bioenergie Bucklige Welt

Or take a look at Bioen­ergie Buck­lige Welt. Parts of Schwarzau, Bad Erlach, Bre­it­e­nau, Lanzenkirchen, Föhre­nau, Walpers­bach and Wiener Neustadt are sup­plied with envi­ron­men­tal­ly friend­ly dis­trict heat­ing by a bio­mass-fired com­bined heat and pow­er plant. 150000 loose cubic metres of for­est wood chips are pro­vid­ed every year from domes­tic agri­cul­ture. This cor­re­sponds to rough­ly 3 mil­lion euros in val­ue cre­ation for the region’s farm­ers.