Simon Jaritz
Managing directors
Johann Sr.,
Wilhelm Sr. and Erich Jaritz
Johann Jaritz jr. and Wilhelm Jaritz jr., managing directors since 1997
Martin Jaritz, managing director
since 1997
In 1919 Simon Jaritz founded the company S. JARITZ Timberexport, based in Klagenfurt, the capital of Austrias most southern province Carinthia.
SECOND GENERATION
After the Second World War the three sons Johann Sr., Wilhelm Sr. and Erich joined the company. The enterprise was reorganized to the form of S. JARITZ Holzindustrie und Export OHG in 1956.
Johann Jaritz Sr. also became managing director
of the whole company and lasted in that
position until 1986.
The founder of the company Simon Jaritz died in July 1959 at the age of 71
years.
In July 1966, at the age of 43, Wilhelm Jaritz Sr. passed away much too young. It was a shock for the whole family, for all friends and company-members.
In 1968 the enterprise was reorganized to the type of S. JARITZ
Holzindustrie und Export KG.
In 1986 Johann Jaritz Sr. retired and since then Erich remained the only
managing director of the company until 1997.
In May 2000 Johann Jaritz Sr. passed away at the age of 79 years.
THIRD GENERATION
In 1978 Johann Jaritz jr. joined the company and in 1982 Wilhelm Jaritz
jr. entered the business.
In 1995 Martin Jaritz, Erich`s son, entered the company.
In 1997 the enterprise was reorganized to the form of S. JARITZ,
Holzindustrie GmbH & Co KG.
In the middle of 1997 the three
cousins Johann, Wilhelm and Martin Jaritz took over the business management
of the whole enterprise.
Sawmill at Ferlach
Martin Jaritz
Round timber yard with sawmill-edifice
Packet-facility since 1997
Sawn timber yard
Biomass cogeneration
plant since 2001
Timber drying
chamber since 2002
Already in the thirties of the twentieth century the output could substantially be increased by the use of a frame saw. The worldwide economic crisis and the following years of second worldwar were mastered by diligence and circumspection.
After the war the buildup work was intensely started and in 1954 they went about the set-up of a new saw edifice and the enhancement of the timber- and woodyard. The sawmill was adapted for the use of forklifts.
In 1959 Simon Jaritzīs son Wilhelm Jaritz took over the management of the sawmill. During his direction there was the startup of a chopping and chipping machine and a chipping silo. Simultaneoulsy with the renewal of the motorpool all the trucks were equipped with loading cranes as well.
After the early death of Wilhelm in the year of 1966 his brother Erich Jaritz was assigned with the direction of the sawmill. In the year 1974 the facility underwent a widely renewal of the machinery equipment. By the end of the seventieth a decortication-facility with an annexed round timber sorting plant was added, because henceforth decortications were no longer carried out in the forests. In order to match with the trend of the market a multiblade circular saw was installed in 1988. Very soon from now on the manual round timber measuring in the forests was replaced by an electronic device in the sawmill.
Here the round timber from the surrounding forestal areas is being processed to white sawn timber, a part of which is brought to market in the establishment in Klagenfurt. The main part goes to export to Italy anyway.
Erich Jaritz retired in 1997 and since then the management has been remained in the hands of his son Martin Jaritz. And in order to correspond to the increasing specifications of the Italian market a packet-facility was constructed in 1997 and in 2002 a drying chamber was set up, which is supplied with energy from a 2001 erected biomass cogeneration plant. Not only own timber can be dried here, but also boards and planks for other sawmills.
Shop and principal office in Klagenfurt
Oak-planks
Do-it-yourself
Jaritz since 1979
Cutting slats
Delivery service
Johann Jaritz jr.
Wilhelm Jaritz jr.
Cutting panels
In the year 1955 the sawmill
Del Torso was acquired in the city of Klagenfurt in Rosentaler Strasse.
After shutting down the sawmill plant at the beginning of the sixties
the trading company for joinery materials, such as particle boards, sawnwood, fibreboards, planed wood,
panels, doors and accessories was started and the company office
was relocated from the Bahnhofstrasse 47 to the new company area at the end
of the sixties.
The sawing hall was adapted in 1968 and the production
facility for the fabrication of inner doors was established. At the
beginning of the seventieth a planing machine and multiblade saw machine
were acquired as well as the installation of a timber drying chamber.
Sawnwood from the sawmill in Ferlach is farther processed here.
In 1979 the new do-it-yourself shop was commissioned. In the
eighties the two gentlemen
Johann jr. and Wilhelm jr. took over the management of the trading-company in
Klagenfurt.
In 1988 another goods depot for storing particle boards, plywood, planed wooden articles and
first-class sawnwood was set up.
In 2000 an edge
lipping and banding processing center was activated. In 2001 an ancient
corporate dwelling house was adapted and chiefly reorganized into a
timber-stockroom. In the middle of 2002 a new panel sizing machine was
actuated, in order to get better results concerning the quality of the cuts.