Social Responsibility Pillars

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TO SOCIETY

SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY PILLARS

HS Timber Group is part of the Evergreen Privatstiftung, which was founded in 1997 also with charitable aims. With this in mind, together with our subsidiaries and sister companies, we support projects in the following areas powered by Evergreen Privatstiftung:

Research & Innovation
Education & Further Training
Non-Profit & Charity

RESEARCH & INNOVATION

Highlights powered by Evergreen Privatstiftung:

WoodComp 3D

Together with the Vienna University of Technology and the Christian Doppler Institute, HS Timber Group is supporting basic research to develop a revolutionary, CO₂-neutral building material of the future from sawmill by-products.

WoodComp3D Labor

Evergreen Prize

The HS Timber Group awards a substantial research budget for promising research projects in the field of wood and forestry. The Evergreen Prize will take place in this form for the first time in 2025.

Evergreen Prize

Evergreen Student Competitions

Lectures with international experts and innovation competitions (hackathons) to create cross-disciplinary networking and dialogue. We believe that thinking outside the box favours innovation.

Evergreen Innovationcamp

EDUCATION & FURTHER TRAINING

Highlights powered by Evergreen Privatstiftung:

India

Through the ZUKI - Future for Children project, Evergreen Privatstiftung companies have been supporting street children in India for many years. ZUKI gives them a home and enables their education. The initiator and chairwoman of the project is Claudia Stöckl. In the meantime, some of the programme's graduates have been offered career prospects at HS Timber Group plants.

ZUKI

Romania

In Romania, the Evergreen Private Foundation is involved through its local subsidiaries. It primarily supports educational and childcare facilities in order to support children and young people and reduce the number of school dropouts in Romania.

Find out more in our Newsroom.

Africa

In Ethiopia and Burkina Faso, we are working with one of our sister companies to build schools to give children easier access to education.

Schools for Ethiopia Burkina Faso (ICEP)

Argentina

The company supports the kindergarten near our new sawmill in Argentina. There, the children's development and talents are encouraged and a solid educational foundation is created.

News

Austria

In Austria, we support Sindbad and Lobby 16 together with one of our sister companies. Both organisations help young people from disadvantaged social groups to find their feet after compulsory schooling and/or integrate into the labour market. We also support Sag's Multi, the multilingual speech competition organised by ORF.

Sag’s MULTI Sindbad Lobby 16

NON PROFIT & CHARITY

Highlights powered by Evergreen Privatstiftung:

Tomorrow's Forest Foundation

HS Timber Group co-founded the ‘Tomorrow's Forests’ initiative to plant over 1 million trees in Romania and thus ensure biodiversity and climate protection for future generations. This goal has been achieved. The initiative is now a foundation and is successfully continuing its work.

Tomorrow’s Forest Foundation

Help that gets to where it is needed

HS Timber Group, its subsidiaries and sister companies have been supporting humanitarian organisations for local and international initiatives for many years. Every year, they donate pellets to a hospital for chronically ill people in Romania and help victims of natural disasters, e.g. by donating to Caritas for earthquake victims in Syria.

An ambulance was delivered with the support of the HS Timber Productions Reci sawmill to the local community

CSR

A new ambulance, worth 160,000 Euro, purchased through a public-private partnership, was delivered in the beginning of the year to the County…

Two projects in Moineşti sponsored by HS Baco Panels have now been completed

CSR

It is good to see not only the starting point of something, but also the impact. Two of the projects sponsored by the HS Baco Panels blockboard…

We are building a kindergarten

CSR

The HS Timber Group is proud to support institutions and facilities that provide education, training and support for children and young people.

From wisdom to virtuosity: with HS Baco Panels, Phronesis guides gifted children in Romania

CSR

There are many talented children with an above average intelligence, but it may be that the environment in which they live lacks the resources and…

HS Timber continues to prevent school dropout

CSR

It's an afternoon like any other day of the week. We're walking in the courtyard of the Maria Ward Social Centre in Rădăuți, Romania. The tall,…

HS Baco Panels cares for the big needs of the small ones in Valea Trotuşului, Romania

CSR

We have a tradition to get involved in the regions where we operate, in social, environmental and forward-looking projects that have a positive impact…

We provided a new roof for the residents of "Ingvar Kamprad" Social Assistance Centre in Siret

CSR

We have a tradition at HS Timber to get involved in the regions where we operate, in social, environmental and forward-looking projects that have a…

Pellets for the Chronic Disease Hospital in Siret

CSR

For the seventh year in a row, HS Timber supports the Chronic Disease Hospital in Siret, Romania and donates pellets for the 2022-2023 heating period.

Construction progress on the HTL Campus in Burkina Faso

CSR

Massive rainfall, hardly any supplies from abroad, massive restrictions due to the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and a military coup in January…

Our CSR activities in Africa

CSR

Ethiopia is frequently affected by famine or acts of war in the country. When travelling through the country, where DABG - a company of the Evergreen…