New face at the helm of the company with the orange-colored rabbit in the company logo: Klaus Heller, an external person, has been in charge of the construction and recycling company Hasenöhrl from St. Pantaleon near St. Valentin for the first time since April 1st.
Born in Waldinger Heller, he took over the management of Hasenöhrl Bau GmbH from the managing owner Karl Hasenöhrl. Heller and Hasenöhrl are co-managing directors of Hasenöhrl GmbH, in which the other activities are bundled.
Heller is 55 years old and previously worked for the Strabag construction group for 35 years. Karl Hasenöhrl will be 60 this year. His son Wolfgang, who studied civil engineering in Vienna, should first gain experience and then join the family business in a few years.
This was founded in 1960 by Otto Hasenöhrl. Its core business is the operation of today’s six gravel pits and five concrete plants. Over the years, an asphalt mixing plant and a transport division have been added: “Our fleet includes 200 trucks,” says Heller. In Upper Austria, major construction projects are pending in the coming years, “the construction of the west ring alone will result in millions of tons of excavated material that will have to be transported away.” Here you can see perspectives at Hasenöhrl.
Motorway and small construction site
The company with 720 employees also takes on all kinds of construction work: from demolition work to asphalting and road construction projects to the construction of landfills and bridges. An important client is the public sector: “But we also build for private individuals,” says Heller. In the recycling plant in St. Pantaleon, recycled building materials are produced from old concrete, old asphalt, broken bricks and wood waste. In the 2021/22 financial year (as of March 31), sales of 125 million euros were achieved, an increase of ten percent compared to the previous year.
The order situation in the construction industry is currently still good, says Heller: “We are well utilized, but the costs are going through the roof.” In addition to fuel and energy prices, the price of bitumen, a by-product of petroleum refining, has also risen sharply: “Bitumen is the main cost component in asphalt production,” says Heller. An offer calculation at fixed prices is currently associated with risks: “We see a willingness among public clients to move away from fixed prices. But the budgets for this year are set. As a result, fewer projects will probably be able to be implemented.” How this will affect sales and capacity utilization is difficult to predict.
Source: Nachrichten
