Egger is not simply buying another recycler in northern Italy. The wood-based materials group has acquired 100 percent of Lenocart S.r.l. in the Milan metropolitan area, bringing part of its raw-material sourcing closer to its own organisation. The transaction was completed on 28 July 2026; Egger has not disclosed the purchase price.
Lenocart is no stranger to the group. According to Egger, the family-owned company, whose history dates back to the 1950s, has been a business partner for many years. The supplier will now become an owned recycling site within Egger's international Timberpak network. The transaction also includes Lenocart's transport fleet – and that is an important part of the industrial rationale behind the deal.
Recycled wood has to do more than exist. It must be collected, sorted, pre-processed and transported to a plant at an economically viable cost. An owned operation in the Milan metropolitan region gives Egger greater control over that chain. What the group is acquiring is therefore not merely material, but collection infrastructure, local market knowledge and logistics in one of Italy's largest urban economies.
Lenocart currently collects around 10,000 tonnes of recycled wood per year, according to the company. That material is expected to contribute to supplies for Egger's plant in Caorso. Egger says the site manufactures particleboard using 100 percent recycled wood. Reliable access to recovered timber therefore has a very direct economic value.
At its current size, however, Lenocart is hardly a volume game-changer. For a group operating 22 production sites and producing 10.9 million cubic metres of wood-based materials and sawn timber annually, 10,000 tonnes is modest. The more interesting question is how far Egger can expand the Milan collection operation. The company has so far provided no concrete targets.
Egger is initially opting for continuity on the management side. Dario Lenoci, whose family founded the business, will remain responsible for the site's operations. Employees are also being retained. That should reduce integration risk while preserving the local relationships that make the operation strategically useful in the first place.
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Egger is not simply buying another recycler in northern Italy. The wood-based materials group has acquired 100 percent of Lenocart S.r.l. in the Milan metropolitan area, bringing part of its raw-material sourcing closer to its own organisation. The transaction was completed on 28 July 2026; Egger has not disclosed the purchase price.
Lenocart is no stranger to the group. According to Egger, the family-owned company, whose history dates back to the 1950s, has been a business partner for many years. The supplier will now become an owned recycling site within Egger's international Timberpak network. The transaction also includes Lenocart's transport fleet – and that is an important part of the industrial rationale behind the deal.
Recycled wood has to do more than exist. It must be collected, sorted, pre-processed and transported to a plant at an economically viable cost. An owned operation in the Milan metropolitan region gives Egger greater control over that chain. What the group is acquiring is therefore not merely material, but collection infrastructure, local market knowledge and logistics in one of Italy's largest urban economies.
Lenocart currently collects around 10,000 tonnes of recycled wood per year, according to the company. That material is expected to contribute to supplies for Egger's plant in Caorso. Egger says the site manufactures particleboard using 100 percent recycled wood. Reliable access to recovered timber therefore has a very direct economic value.
At its current size, however, Lenocart is hardly a volume game-changer. For a group operating 22 production sites and producing 10.9 million cubic metres of wood-based materials and sawn timber annually, 10,000 tonnes is modest. The more interesting question is how far Egger can expand the Milan collection operation. The company has so far provided no concrete targets.
Egger is initially opting for continuity on the management side. Dario Lenoci, whose family founded the business, will remain responsible for the site's operations. Employees are also being retained. That should reduce integration risk while preserving the local relationships that make the operation strategically useful in the first place.