boom in online demand The recently completed investment included the expansion and modernization of the production, shipping/packaging, administration, warehouse and employee areas. The project is very special for the imperial and royal purveyor to the court in several respects: Not only was the investment volume, at a mid-single-digit million amount, the largest ever invested at the company headquarters in the company's 192-year history, but the expansion and modernization now implemented also makes it possible to take account of the online demand that has increased significantly in recent years by optimizing operational processes. Philipp Zauner (Managing Director): "An expansion like this in the town center of Bad Ischl while operations are ongoing presents a company and its employees with enormous challenges. We are therefore all the more pleased to have successfully completed this project. Since the pandemic, online demand for our sweet Zauner specialties has developed very positively. In recent years, this has meant that we have continually reached the capacity limits in our storage and shipping areas. We have now adapted all of these departments to the changed requirements of the 21st century, optimized our processes and are sure that with this investment we have set a precedent for the future." Ecologization is a central theme Through the modernization, Zauner is also installing a photovoltaic system with over 100 kWp on the roof, which will now cover more than half of its own electricity consumption at peak times. In addition, the redesign of the entire cooling technology has resulted in a heat recovery system with 130 kW output, which reduces the heat energy requirement by more than a third and could supply more than 10 single-family homes. "If you look back at the history of traditional companies, optimizing energy efficiency was unfortunately never a decisive issue in the past. Today, however, this concerns us even more; I am pleased that we have now managed to significantly reduce our ecological footprint and to align our energy production with the future," says senior partner Josef Zauner. Additional jobs The expansion is expected to create up to 10 new jobs in production, shipping and administration. "In recent years, the increase in online demand has literally overwhelmed us. Sales have increased much faster than our internal structures, processes and team could grow. The investment that has now been implemented is therefore, on the one hand, a way of satisfying existing demand, but at the same time, it is also a direction for the future, which should enable further solid growth and the creation of additional jobs in the center of Bad Ischl," Philipp Zauner (Managing Director).
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