wholesale & Production
Wood produced in-house
Sawn, profiled and thermally-modified timber form the product portfolio manufactured by the JAF Group. The group manufactures premium-quality timber products at production sites located in Romania, Austria, Hungary, Croatia, Slovakia and the Czech Republic. Close relationships with regional forest owners allow JAF to ensure that top quality and sustainability standards are complied with. First-class logs and modern production methods guarantee the best results. JAF also responds to technological changes in the timber processing industry with a wide range of services on offer. Digitalisation processes and technological innovation allow the company to develop customer-oriented and fit-for-the-future solutions. Being innovative by tradition, the company is successful at identifying and developing new business fields along the value-added chain.
Regional flexibility from Lower Austria and Styria
A wide range of valuable reclaimed timber is stored at the St. Marein site in Styria. Top-quality European timber species as well as resistant larch and selected exotic woods are available here as premium sawn timber and decking. These products are sourced from other suppliers as well as being manufactured in-house. Besides steaming and drying the timber in kilns, special thicknesses and fixed dimensions can also be supplied in response to customer requests. The product range extends from undressed boards to planed goods. The sawmill in Laa an der Thaya, Lower Austria, produces sawn and cut-to-size timber from regional species such as oak and ash.
From the forest to the customer
Having its own sawmill in Laa an der Thaya has provided the JAF Group with considerably more flexibility since 2015. Fully controlling order management at its own production sites means that JAF can respond more flexibly and faster to customer requests. By being on hand locally, the company can also offer regional forestry managers a particularly wide range of services: From forestry inspections and felling notifications – in collaboration with experienced partner companies – to the sale of the logs, JAF covers the entire supply chain from the forest to the customer and monitors quality every step of the way.
supplier expertise for the international flooring industry
At Sopron, Hungary, JAF’s Swedish subsidiary, Skanditrä, processes premium-quality materials for the flooring sector. The 25,000 m² warehouse contains 16 drying kilns with a total annual capacity of 15,000 m³. Trimmed and sawn timber elements for downstream processing are shipped from here to quality-conscious international processors.
40
JAF processing centres around the globe
106
Cutting, CNC- and edging machines worldwide
5,5 million
m² of cut panels and boards in 2021
The jaf service portfolio – tailored to customers
Modern digitalisation and technological processes have already left their mark on the timber processing industry. JAF has responded to the demand for innovation and now offers numerous processing services which are specially tailored to reflect customer requirements. These include a wide range of products with higher degrees of prefabrication. This means shorter processing times for customers. Even though the focus of carpentry continues to be on the manual aspect of the work, technological advances open the door to new possibilities.
cutting-edge production technology
JAF supports the wood processing industry at a total of 40 processing centres located around the globe. The range of services offered extends from cutting and edging to CNC processing and the production of finished furniture components. These processing centres act as an extended workbench to customers due to their modern machinery. Trained specialists guarantee outstanding results.
Future-oriented furniture production
By manufacturing furniture components, JAF is responding successfully to the establishment of Industry 4.0 trends in the wood processing industry. The furniture components shop allows customers to select from 190 core elements to create their desired furniture component or even entirely individually configured pieces of furniture. JAF has recently gone a step further and now forwards the data generated to its fully automated production facility. Since 2020, the new furniture production line at the headquarters in Stockerau, Austria, has included a fully automated, high-capacity facility which produces ready-to-assemble, top-quality furniture components.