The past year has been quite a handful: Mass accrual of calamity woods has been enormous in 2018. Storms Friederike in spring and Vaia at the end of October destroyed whole stretches of land, and additionally vegetation was struck by a hot summer which was followed by drought damages and high volumes of beetle-infested wood. Scarred by these impacts with serious consequences of the past season, hardwood sawyers of the Austrian sawmill industry gathered on the 23rd of November at sawmill Hanger in Ybbsitz. Read more ...