We at HIZ exploit the region’s strengths. Our aim is to maintain and generate added value through innovation, promotion and networking.
Thanks to its extensive forest areas, the region surrounding HIZ offers perfect conditions for wood businesses. For many centuries, local people have maintained their strong ties to the material wood, which can actually be considered as integral part of the Upper Styrian culture. On the other hand, people have also developed an industrial sense which promotes innovation power and entrepreneurship. This combination of tradition, innovation and vision form a fruitful basis for a well functioning wood network and wood as raw material holds an enormous potential that we might not yet be aware of.
Our goal
The HIZ Wood Innovation Centre offers wood businesses space for modern production facilities, new fields of application and high-tech research and development activities at a fair price. We support the establishment of new business with comprehensive cluster management services thus making the HIZ Wood Innovation Centre a professional basis for creating synergies in the wood processing sector. Our goal is to support and promote these synergies so that we all can benefit from the enormous future potential of the raw material wood.
