Company History

In 1929 the HOMANN family took over the "SACHSA" sawmill in Herzberg am Harz.

In 1949 production of wet processed hard fibre boards was launched in this factory.

The "Success Story" of the thin, two sides smooth HDF/MDF wood fibre boards began.

Only 4 years later, HOMANIT launched production of two sides smooth HDF/MDF boards at its Losheim am See/Saarland factory.

In 1995, both factories received DIN EN ISO 9001 certification from the Frankfurt-based DQS.

In 1997 the lacquering capacity was doubled to 50 million m²/year.

Extension of the press at the Losheim factory, therefore increasing the raw board capacity by 25% to 170,000 m²

In February 2005, the assets of the insolvent Company Plyty Karlino in Karlino, Poland were taken over. At the same time the company HOMANIT POLSKA came into operation.

In November 2005, the new lacquering machine at the Karlino works started operation. Boards in thicknesses from 2-6 mm and sizes up to 5600 x 2225 mm are printed in wood decors and lacquered in uni colours. The lacquering capacity of the HOMANIT Group was hereby increased to 100 million cubic meters/year.

In September 2006, the Karlino factory was certified according to DIN EN ISO 9001:2000 by the Germanischer Lloyd Certification GmbH.

The “first board” was manufactured on the new 28 m Dieffenbacher ContiPress at Homanit’s Karlino factory in April 2008. The state-of-the-art, continuous press can produce a maximum width of 2,550 mm. In order to be able to refine the products in this width, investments were made in an appropriate sander, a state-of-the-art lacquering system, as well as a new modern saw.