| 1936: |
The
company's founder Peter Kern acquires the firm. |
| 1945: |
In
the last days of the war a fire destroys the firm. Reconstruction after
the war. |
| 1954: |
The
Wertheim Company completes the mechanisation of the firm and the first
fully mechanised frame sawmill (Pini & Kay-Gatter) in Austria starts
working. |
| 1968: |
Cutting
volume 13.000 cubic meters of timber/year. |
| June 1970: |
A
flood causes great damages to the firm. |
| 29.12.1972 |
Foundation
of K. u. P. Kern KG. |
| 1976: |
Cutting
volume 20.000 cubic meters/year. |
| 1985: |
Installation
of an automatic edger unit. |
| 1990: |
Cutting
volume 50.000 cubic meters timber/year. Installation of a circular
resaw. |
| August 1994: |
A
flood causes great damages to the firm |
| 1997: |
Cutting
volume 80.000 cubic meters timber/year. |
| 04.02.1998: |
A
fire destroys the sawing shed and partly the adjacent production hall. |
| 20.
12. 1998: |
The first cutting sample is carried out with the newly installed log
bandsaw from the company EWD (system: Tandem). The new equipment allows
the company to specialise in cutting large dimension timber. The plant
now cuts fir, spruce, pine and larch logs. |
