78 | Advertisement Promotion: Vandecasteele Houtimport
CERTIFIED VISION A CLEAR
Vandecasteele Houtimport is one of the leading European timber importers and has ambitious aims to trade only in certified timber by 2025
Vandecasteele Houtimport, the Belgian fifth-generation family company, founded in 1883, specialises in the import, trading and export of tropical hardwood from Africa, South-east Asia and South America, Scandinavian and North American softwood, and North American and European hardwood.
Sustainability and reliability are an essential part of Vandecasteele Houtimport’s DNA. With over 140 years of experience, we are determined to achieve the goal of trading only certified timber by 2025. The challenge lies with the hardwood and especially the tropical hardwoods. Today we are at 80%
certified and have a clear vision: only certified timber has a future.
This is a long-term goal that can only be achieved by including all partners. Substantial investments have been made over the years to be able to realise this future goal and it cannot be achieved overnight. This is a long-term job in which all partners must be included. If we want to assure our customers that we keep our promise to only trade timber that comes from well-managed, certified forests, we need to be sure that all our trading partners share the same strictest certification and sustainability processes as we do.
Vandecasteele Houtimport has a unique business model. Importing timber from all over the world, keeping it in stock for several years, in some cases, even decades. Stock is our strength and our specialty. In times where supply is difficult or tight, we can count on our invested stocks to guarantee continued supply.
In order to achieve our goal we have taken several actions within the company. First, we were assisted by external experts to get the procedures and protocols in place. Secondly, the team at Vandecasteele was reinforced with two forest engineers in Brazil. That way we can keep a finger on the pulse of every
TTJ | July/August 2023 |
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