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in Hexham (UK), Radauti (RO) and Wismar (DE). The resin plant in Wismar has now been upgraded, modernised and expanded to the latest state of the art as part of a major project. This project was successfully implemented over several years under particularly challenging conditions, namely during ongoing operations. A big success of this investment was the optimisation in our energy supply. Since August 2025, the entire resin factory in Wismar has been operating completely without natural gas. A total of over €90m was invested in this major project. Wismar shows how holistic progress works: investments in the plant, energy and working environments are interlinked. Wismar thus remains an attractive production location and an important export hub for the Group – from here, binders, products and ideas spread far beyond the region.


WBPI: Appreciation for wood’s sustainability and low carbon credentials has increased in recent years, but at the same time legislation and bureaucracy has sometimes proved a challenge for the industry. How does the industry reconcile these benefits and challenges? M Egger: The growing appreciation for wood as a renewable, recyclable and carbon-storing raw material confirms that we are on the right track. At the same time, new legal requirements – such as the EUDR – place additional administrative demands on companies. These regulations pursue an important goal, but their implementation is complex. For us at Egger, the responsible use of wood as a resource has always been at the heart of everything we do. That is why we expressly support the objectives of the EUDR. For us it goes without saying that we further develop our already established traceability and due diligence systems so that they fully comply with legal requirements. We are involving our suppliers as much as possible to work on joint solutions. It is important that the entire industry, authorities and politicians work together on practical, digitally supported solutions to reduce the administrative burden while ensuring the ecological impact of the regulation. We also see this as an opportunity: greater transparency along the supply chain will enable us to highlight the strengths of wood as a climate-friendly material even more clearly. At the same time, we are continuously investing in modern technologies and efficient processes so that we can implement the new requirements reliably and economically.


WBPI: Egger has just launched its decorative collection 26+. What is the story behind this collection and how do you see it connecting with specifier and customer markets? M Egger: The Decorative Collection 26+


Michael Egger Jr, chief sales officer


responds to current market trends and customer requirements in furniture and interior design. It is a further development of our Collection 24+. For the first time, we are focusing on a two-year rolling collection concept. This gives us the opportunity to respond very quickly and flexibly to trend developments and changing market requirements. With ongoing updates, we make new products, innovations and the collection’s services available more quickly. At the same time, we give our customers and retail partners planning security. All new products remain in the range for at least four years. Egger trade partners, architects and fabricators thus receive a globally uniform decor and product portfolio that is always up to date. Regional needs are covered by locally adapted stock programmes. With over 360 decor and texture combinations, as well as new decors, products, surfaces and digital services, this update allows us to closely meet the needs of our customers. New solid colours, especially in the trend colour beige, wood reproductions in linear Italian design and additions to the colour spectrum of matt PerfectSense surfaces are just some of the new features. Feedback from our customers at the launch events and initial trade fair appearances confirms that we have struck a chord with Decorative Collection 26+.


WBPI: What other company developments/investments can we expect to see during 2026 and beyond? M Egger: We are continuously investing in the modernisation of our plants. In addition to ongoing maintenance investments, we are


focusing our investments on three strategic priorities: upgrading, circular economy and Net Zero.


New short-cycle presses are being built at some plants. This will further increase our upgrading capacities. Moreover, our focus is primarily on making the best possible use of the capacities created in recent years. Investments in the circular economy are closely linked to the Net Zero target. I would like to go into two aspects in more detail: Firstly, recycled wood. We are investing in our plants to continuously increase the proportion of recycled wood in production. We now collect wood ourselves at over 25 recycling collection sites in Europe and the US for further processing in our plants. This is because the guiding principle that has driven us since our foundation in 1961 is that “wood is far too valuable to simply throw it away”. Working in closed cycles remains a core element of our business model to this day. We give the valuable resource of wood many lives. At the end of their service life, most of our products are also recyclable. Secondly – and it is therefore only logical – we are pursuing the goal of Net Zero and reducing our climate-impacting greenhouse gas emissions. In doing so, we are clearly focusing on reducing our emissions, not on offsetting them outside our value chain. This is backed up, for example, by investments in our own biomass power plants and renewable energy supply at our sites. This year, for example, we are commissioning a new power plant in St Johann, which will give us a high degree of independence from fossil fuels in the region and at the same time supply neighbouring villages with district heating.


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