Passionate about wood veneer A practical guide with answers to all your wood veneer questions

Mission Here at Decospan, we develop and manufacture wood veneer based products. We do this in a creative and innovative way with respect for nature and the environment. Vision Decospan aims to make wood veneer products more accessible by taking the finishing further. We add value so that you can easily convert them into the desired end products. In fact, we make it just as easy to use veneered panels as melamine panels. A sustainable business model But quality isn’t everything. At Decospan, we make efforts every day to reduce our impact on the environment and our ultimate aim is to neutralise...

Passion The Decospan family is passionate about wood and we try to pass on that passion to all our staff and everyone who is involved in our business. Aiming for an integrated quality system Our aim is to deliver quality, day in day out. That is only possible if everyone in the company works together. That is why we encourage all our staff to come up with ideas that will help us achieve our vision of only aiming for the best. For us, pursuing maximum quality is a multifacetted task, ranging from the key operational processes down to the last detail.

1.Quality in the products Decospan aims to deliver high-quality products that satisfy the most stringent requirements set by our customers. That is why we are continually investing in the most modern machinery, storage systems, etc. Whenever we consider an investment, we ask ourselves, "Will this benefit our customers?" 2. Quality in the service The key concept in our customer service is communication. Getting the desired quality depends on proper communication, ranging from the customer's requirements to the production. Our service naturally includes fast delivery times, a well-trained team...

Honesty and openness Decospan is a reputable company that seeks to be fair in all its dealings with its partners. We don't hide problems, we prefer to be open about them and solve them. Our Pure Wood charter puts our fair procurement policy into practice, for instance, and we have nothing to hide in our production either. Indeed, we invite all our customers to take a look inside our production sites. Production sites

Respect Decospan treats its staff, customers, suppliers and all other stakeholders with respect. It also expects that respect to be mutual - in terms of materials, people and facilities. Environmental awareness Being environmentally aware is a very important part of our mission. Our pursuit of CO2-neutral production is not a marketing stunt: there are well-grounded reasons behind it. Our basic product, veneer, is a fantastic natural product that future generations will also be able to enjoy.

Founded in November by Urbain Desmet Production starts on 1 January First exports Mission: production of veneered panels, veneered furniture components, partition walls, doors and ceilings, etc. Second generation joins the family business Focus on veneer as the basis for all products Foundation of Decospan Germany Foundation of Albion Panel Products Ltd. UK Construction of a new production site at Menen, Belgium Development of 'Par-ky' veneered floors Foundation of Decospan France Acquisition of Mecameubles in Hazebrouck (France), a manufacturer of wood veneer furniture components. Development...

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Production sites Sales offices Decospan d.o.o. Oprisavci BB 35213 Oprisavci Croatia T : +385 35 215 750 F : +385 35 215 751 [email protected] Decospan France sas Parc d’Activités Economiques de la Creule 535 BP 147 59523 Hazebrouck Cedex France T : +33 3 28 50 34 00 F : +33 3 28 50 34 01 [email protected] Decospan Ireland LTD 60 The Grange Raheen Limerick Ireland T : +353 872056123 F : +353 61227881 [email protected] Decospan Holzhandelsgesellschaft mbH Im Mühlgarten 6 77963 Schwanau Germany T : +49 78 24/64 93-0 F : +49 78 24/64 93-50 [email protected]

Research & Development

The Decospan group is consciously increasing its investment in research and development. And this has led to some impressive results: • The development of formaldehyde-free products (Zero) • The development of the patented mix-matching machine that gives sheets of veneer a solid look • Incredible flexibility when staining veneered panels (customised colours from 500 m2) • Processing thicker veneer quicker • A brushing technique to give a deeper structure • A patented machine that gives veneer a rustic look (scratching) • Development of a machine for lacquering wide panels (2070 mm) Our laboratory...

"The sustainable use of our basic raw material - wood veneer - gets the highest priority and is anchored in our company philosophy"

The environment Sustainable business practices are a key element in Decospan's mission. Decospan not only has an environmentally aware procurement policy, it also aims for CO2-neutral production of sustainable products. Decospan's basic raw material is wood veneer. Wood is a natural product and the trees this wood comes from provide our planet with oxygen. There would be no life without oxygen. This is explained further on the next page. Because wood is so important, we ensure we make optimum use of this material at Decospan. We do that by working with wood veneer, i.e. thinly sliced wood. We...

Decospan also supports the initiative by the sector federation Fedustria to promote the use of wood products. The emphasis in this campaign is on the 'sustainability' of wood as a raw material. The text below gives a very good explanation of the contribution wood makes to the environment in the course of its lifecycle. When combined with sustainable forestry management, this gives wood an excellent future as a raw material. and furniture industry (figures for 2010, Fedustria). They make sustainable products and also enable other economic activities. Incidentally, more than 2.4 million people...