Production with Self-Grown Wood Kicks Off

Six years ago, we came up with the idea of using our own wood for making our engineered wood products. We began investigating, gathering information and discussing possibilities, and eventually came…

SWISS KRONO Continues OSB Growth Course and Shifts Investment Priorities to Western Europe

SWISS KRONO Continues OSB Growth Course and Shifts Investment Priorities to Western Europe

April 2023 / Following a two-year break necessitated by the pandemic, wood-based materials manufacturer…

BASF and SWISS KRONO pioneer with innovative products

BASF and SWISS KRONO pioneer the wood-based panel industry with the development of innovative products

• With Kaurit® ZERO and Kauramin® BALANCE, BASF offers biomass-balanced amino resins for the…

EU associations launch coalition for a more competitive, and ambitious, EU bioeconomy

A new group of 14 EU trade associations including the providers of high-quality wood-based products, fibre-based paper and board products and packaging, and renewable energy solutions, supported by EU…

Perspective on our markets in 2023

SWISS KRONO CEO Martin Brettenthaler looks ahead to 2023 and explains the challenges but also the opportunities that the industry as a whole and SWISS KRONO in particular will face this year from his…

Green Energy Project - 3 questions to Martin Brettenthaler, CEO of Swiss Krono Group

Martin Brettenthaler, CEO of the Swiss Krono Group since 2016, answers our questions from the company's headquarters in Lucerne, Switzerland. With a turnover of 2.3 billion Swiss francs in the last…

Corporate Anniversary: SWISS KRONO Hungary Turns 35

This August SWISS KRONO’s Hungarian subsidiary had good reason to party: 35 years had passed since its founding, and the milestone was appropriately celebrated. When the plant was inaugurated in…

SWISS KRONO GROUP: with verve and hunger for success out of the COVID Crisis

Lucerne, December 2021 – The motto of SWISS KRONO is “Hunger for Success” and the corporate values “Ambitious”, “Goal-Orientation”, “Commitment“, “Pragmatism” and “Partnership“ are at the focus of…

SWISS KRONO creates a milestone for wood recycling in Poland

Up to 100,000 cubic metres of forest wood can be replaced by recycled raw material after the launch of a modern wood recycling centre at the SWISS KRONO plant in Żary. The plant will receive…

Investment to Expand Production Capacity in Hungary

We have invested 6.5 million euros at our Hungarian factory to more than double its daily production of tongue-and-groove OSB boards from 300 to 700 square metres a day. The production line in…

The New SWISS KRONO Feel-Good House

To give you a better picture of our SWISS KRONO products and system modules, we’ve “built” an interactive digital model house: the SWISS KRONO Feel-Good House. It lets you explore the various types of…

NEW Beauties 2022

Just in time for spring: The new KRONOTEX decor beauties 2022
For us, prêt-à-porter means: ready for installation. Because that's exactly what our eleven new decor beauties of 2022 from KRONOTEX are…