EU tariff deal threatens Austrian sawmill machinery exports

Timo Springer, President of the Carinthian Federation of Austrian Industries (IV) and head of Springer Maschinenfabrik, has sharply criticized the EU’s recent tariff deal with the United States. Springer, a long-standing advocate for Austrian industrial competitiveness and export-driven growth, has led his family-owned company in Friesach for decades, building it into a global supplier of high-tech machinery for the sawmill sector. “Catastrophic”: This is how Springer describes the EU’s “tariff deal” with the USA. “I can only marvel at this amateurish approach, which completely disregards reality.” Springer Maschinenfabrik, founded in Friesach, Carinthia ...