Flooring and furniture component manufacturer Egger has strengthened its recycling capabilities with its latest acquisition.
The group has purchased a 60% stake in Italian recycling company Cartfer Urbania, a long-time supplier to the company.
Terms were not disclosed. Cartfer is Egger’s first recycling site in Italy- in the heart of the Italian furniture industry and the seventh country it has recycling facilities.
Sara Burani, Cartfer onwer will remain part of the company management and its staff are being retained.
‘Italy has an excellent recycling system. We can benefit greatly from this know-how thanks to our majority investment in Cartfer Urbania and the great expertise of its workforce. Our chipboard plant in Caorso uses 100% recycled wood. We can now make the valuable resource that is recycled wood even more readily available for our production in that location,’ says Giuseppe Conti, Caorso plant manager finance/administration.
Cartfer has been a specialised recycling company since 2017. For more than five years, it has also been a reliable supplier to the Egger’s Italian wood-based material manufacturer SAIB in Caorso, which it bought in December 2022 and the Cartfer site also offers scope for future expansion investments.
‘I am proud that Cartfer Urbania has joined the large Egger family. This important step will allow our company to grow faster and to be able to face the upcoming challenges with more solidity. It is a great growth opportunity for all of us,’ says Burani.
To ensure the supply of post-consumer recycled wood to its plants, Egger focusses on active backward integration and operates its own recycling collection sites under the name Egger Timberpak. At these locations, recycled wood from the respective region is collected, sorted and pre-shredded for transport to the Egger plants for final processing. At the start of the month Eger opened its second recycling facility in Poland.
