The remaining planing and lamination operations are to cease by the end of October. The closure brings to an end more than 200 years of sawmilling at the Lenzing site.

The first sawmill was erected on the site in 1787, with Lenzing AG buying the business back in 1969, before being sold again to private company Holzindustrie Lenzing.

According to the European Monitoring Centre on Change, about 104 employees are being made redundant, with parent company Sturm Holzindustrie citing a log shortage as the reason for closure.

The mill’s profitability has been hit hard in the past two years. The Lenzing mill processes about 250,000m3 of logs annually.