History

Feigl pallet history

Wood – our origin

When Isidor Feigl Senior founded a woodworking company with its own fleet of vehicles in the early 40s, the product range included wooden beverage crates and turned wood products. In 1946, the company expanded to include a frame sawmill to guarantee a supply of affordable lumber. As wooden beverage crates were increasingly replaced by plastic ones, we used the freed-up capacity to begin pallet production in 1960, and by 1966 the first Euro pallets were rolling off the production line.

From sawmill to industrial plant

Following the takeover of the business by Isidor Feigl Junior, a wood technician and business administrator, in 1976, the company Isidor Feigl GmbH & Co. Betriebs-KG, as we know it today, was founded and has since been gradually expanded to its current size and technical equipment. Despite trade barriers, initial contacts with suppliers in what was then Czechoslovakia and Hungary were established in the 70s, a move that continues to prove forward-looking. Shortly after the opening of the Eastern Bloc, in 1990, the Böhmerwald Handelsgesellschaft spol. sro was founded in the Czech Republic to handle the import of sawn timber and finished goods more efficiently.

Another location

Holzer Verpackungsmittel GmbH in Zerbst, Saxony-Anhalt, became Feigl Paletten GmbH in 1992, thus opening a second location. With its additional capacity, this brings us closer to our customers in the northern and eastern parts of Germany, as well as our suppliers in other former Eastern Bloc countries – an important step towards establishing ourselves in the industry and expanding our sales network.

Expansion of our capacities

In the following years, the required storage capacities in Eschlkam and Zerbst will be continuously expanded through the construction of additional paved open areas and warehouses. Due to the increasing demand for dried and heat-treated pallets and wooden packaging, drying capacities will also be significantly expanded. We generate the necessary heat using modern and efficient wood-fired heating systems, which are powered exclusively by our own wood waste. In addition, we generate more electricity than we consume by utilizing photovoltaic systems on our rooftops. Thus, through our CO₂-neutral residual wood utilization and alternative energy concepts, we contribute to climate protection.

Productivity increase through technology

To continue producing the increased volume efficiently and cost-effectively, even more powerful woodworking machines and pallet production lines have been installed and commissioned at both plants, Eschlkam and Zerbst, in recent years. Productivity is further enhanced by automated feeding using robots and other modern conveyor technology.

Use of CNC technology

To meet our customers' demand for high-quality packaging and packaging hybrids made of wood, cardboard, plastic, and metal, Feigl Paletten acquired the Neppl carpentry workshop in Ramsried in 2012. Here, exclusive custom-made products for the interior design of hotels and luxury yachts continue to be manufactured. The use of state-of-the-art CAD design and CNC manufacturing enables us to quickly and flexibly produce a wide variety of milled parts from wood, wood-based materials, plastic, and aluminum for the packaging sector.

Through decades of experience in the production, trade, import and export of packaging materials, as well as through continuous progress and improvements to our products, processes and logistics, we offer our customers in Europe and worldwide an advantage.

Benefit too!

1973

August : Mr. Isidor Feigl Junior begins trading pallets by founding an import/export company. Pallets produced by his parents, other German pallet manufacturers, and imported pallets from state-owned foreign trade companies in Czechoslovakia and Hungary are distributed throughout Germany. At that time, a large portion of the pallets were delivered to industrial companies in the Ruhr region. Pumice blocks were taken back from these companies as return cargo and sold to building material suppliers in the region.