Sawmill and planing mill
FINKBEINER Holzindustrie KG
Steinbis 1, 78098 Triberg im Schwarzwald
A fifth-generation family company
Company
Over 300 years of the Steinbiss sawmill in the Black Forest — today the largest sawmill in the Schwarzwald-Baar district.
Over 300 years
For 300 years, the Steinbiss sawmill has stood in the forest-rich Schwarzwald-Baar district. The Finkbeiner family took it over 100 years ago. Now managed in its fifth generation, our family company has grown into the largest sawmill in the district.
More than 200 customers across Europe benefit from consistent quality, assured by a large roundwood yard and state-of-the-art technology.
Excellent infrastructure and a convenient location on the B33 make it possible to respond to specific customer requirements and deliver at speed.
To further develop this service, FINKBEINER acquired the Hilser haulage company in 2020. This unique regional partnership creates an even faster, smoother chain from forest to sawmill and gives customers more flexibility throughout the process. It led to FINKBEINER Logistics and vehicle engineering GmbH: at our new Nußbacher Straße site in Triberg, we operate our own independent commercial-vehicle workshop alongside roundwood logistics, open to all brands and external customers.
Management
Andreas & Peter Finkbeiner
Father and son manage the company together. They embody what matters at FINKBEINER: preserving tradition while investing in the future with a young team and cutting-edge technology.
Locations
Two companies, one family business — both in Triberg in the Black Forest. In Steinbis we produce sawn and planed timber; on Nußbacher Straße we run our logistics and vehicle-engineering business, including a commercial-vehicle workshop that is also open to external customers.
Logistics and vehicle engineering
FINKBEINER Logistik & Fahrzeugtechnik GmbH
Nußbacher Straße 50, 78098 Triberg im Schwarzwald
Our history
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- 18. Jhd.Origins of the Steinbiss sawmill
- 1922Finkbeiner family takes over
- 1938Independent company
- 1980First chipper canter line
- 1988Andreas Finkbeiner joins management
- 1994Modernisation, chipper canter line
- 2001New planing mill
- 2014Biomass CHP plant
- 2017Peter Finkbeiner joins management
- 2020Own logistics
- 2022100 years of FINKBEINER
- 2025New logistics site
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Origins
- 18. Jhd.Origins of the Steinbiss sawmill
- 1922Purchase of the sawmill by Andreas Finkbeiner; his son Theophil Finkbeiner managed it as a branch of Finkbeiner und Klumpp KG.
- 1938The Finkbeiner KG branch becomes an independent company, Gebrüder Finkbeiner KG.
Growth
- 1953Theophil’s son Waldemar Finkbeiner completes his degree in business administration and returns to the family business.
- 1957First side loader introduced; operations converted to forklift loading.
- 1959Construction of the first roundwood yard.
- 1963First roundwood crane and first planing machine installed.
- 1967Installation of the first boiler and a 6-metre drying chamber for planed timber.
- 1970After Theophil Finkbeiner’s death, Waldemar Finkbeiner becomes general partner and his brother Fritz Finkbeiner limited partner.
- 1973New WD frame saw with 760 mm clearance and width adjustment purchased.
- 1976A Linck debarking system installed in the roundwood yard.
Modernisation
- 1980Construction of the first chipper hall with a Linck circular chipper line for small-diameter timber.
- 1988After Fritz Finkbeiner leaves the company, Waldemar’s son Andreas Finkbeiner becomes limited partner. The company is renamed Finkbeiner KG.
- 1989New roundwood yard built with Wurster & Dietz machinery, made possible by a tunnel and road reconstruction.
- 1993Andreas Finkbeiner becomes general partner and Waldemar Finkbeiner limited partner.
- 1994The old Linck chipper system is dismantled. A modern WD chipper line with pre- and post-cut chippers and a circular saw is installed, together with a new sorting system with 60 boxes and stacking machine by Roséns Maskin. The frame sawmill is decommissioned after the conversion.
- 2000New Mawera heating plant and two large drying chambers constructed.
- 2001Old frame-saw hall demolished; a new planing and cross-cut band-saw line is built.
- 2003A Sennebogen roundwood handling excavator replaces the old Bohn crane.
- 2006The complete WD chipper system is replaced by new profiling technology from Linck.
- 2009Band-saw line 2 installed.
Today
- 2014Biomass combined heat and power plant and seven new drying chambers built.
- 2015Purchase of the former Breithaupt hardwood sawmill in Hornberg as a storage site and future expansion option.
- 2016Commissioning of a restacking system for sawn-timber packages up to 6.5 m long.
- 2017After 47 years in management, Waldemar Finkbeiner leaves the company and dies later that year. His grandson Peter Finkbeiner becomes limited partner and authorised signatory. A six-spindle REX structural-timber planer is commissioned.
- 2018A sprinkler system with a 730 m³ fire-water tank is installed in the production halls. A 1,800 m² warehouse for dried sawn timber is built. A remote-controlled vacuum sorting robot for individual timbers and timber layers up to 1,000 kg and 12 m long enters service.
- 2019Complete refurbishment of the administration building. The old roundwood handling excavator is replaced by a Sennebogen E 835e. The roundwood yard is modernised by Springer Maschinenfabrik GmbH and Jörg Elektronik GmbH.
- 2020Acquisition of the former roundwood logistics partner, Hilser haulage company.
- 2021Construction of a 1,100 m² warehouse for dried sawn timber.
- 2022100 years of the Finkbeiner family at the Steinbiss sawmill, celebrated with a large open day.
- 2022Construction of a 15-metre-long, 60-metre-wide bridge over the Gutach for the new drying chambers.
- 2023Drying capacity expanded by seven further chambers, bringing the total to 17 and gross drying-chamber volume to more than 2,600 m³.
- 2023A 655 kWp photovoltaic system is commissioned across three hall roofs for self-consumption with surplus feed-in.
- 2024Demolition of the old forwarding building on Nußbacher Straße.
- 2025Construction of the new logistics site for our roundwood transporters, including an in-house commercial-vehicle workshop, on Nußbacher Straße.
- 2026Rock excavation and construction of a wash bay on Nußbacher Straße.
Energy & raw material
100 %
net energy-autonomous
Sustainability — nothing new to us
Anyone working with wood as a raw material carries responsibility for forests and energy. We use every part of the log: sawdust, woodchips and bark become electricity and heat in our biomass combined heat and power plant, complemented by the Gutach’s hydropower and photovoltaics.
This enables us to cover our energy needs on a net basis. In purchasing, we also rely on short distances and certified forestry.
Our principles
What we stand for
Quality
High-tech and expertise
We continuously invest in modern machinery and pass our knowledge on to apprentices across generations — to deliver the best result for our customers.
Reliability
Thanks to independence
An integrated production chain and our own logistics help us remain as independent of external influences as possible — since 1922.
Region
Rooted in the Black Forest
Short distances to the raw material, responsibility for forest and neighbours, and a business that stays and invests here.
Our team
At FINKBEINER, people in production, logistics, the workshop and the office work hand in hand. We share craftsmanship, reliability and the ambition to process timber in a way that benefits customers and the region.
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