Passionate about wood veneer
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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...

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. Achieving the desired quality depends on proper communication, starting from the initial customer’s requirements down thru production. Our service naturally includes fast delivery times, a...

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. Entrepreneurship Decospan wants to be a company where people can develop themselves. We believe that everyone should get the opportunity to use and develop his or her talents. That is only...

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 carbon neutrality is firmly based on both sound business as well as environmental reasons. Veneer is the foundation of all products at Decospan and given to us by the environment. By investing in the environment we invest in this fantastic natural resource and insure its use for future generations.

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

BELGIUM Decospan nv Industriezone Grensland Lageweg 33 8930 Menen Belgium +32 56 52 88 00 info@decospan.be Decospan nv Industriezone Grensland Ringlaan 3 8930 Menen Belgium +32 56 52 88 00 info@decospan.be FRANCE Decospan France sas 535 Parc d’Activités Économiques de la Creule 59190 Hazebrouck France +33 3 28 50 34 00 info@decospan.fr

Production sites Our sales staff are always ready for you worldwide. Contact us via www.decospan.com and a regional manager will get in touch with you in no time. CROATIA Decospan Mato Furnir d.o.o. Savska ulica 166, Oprisavci 35213 Oprisavci Croatia +385 35 215 750 info@decomat.hr Decospan d.o.o. Savska ulica 158, Oprisavci 35213 Oprisavci Croatia +385 35 215 750 info@decospan.hr

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 in the field of staining veneered boards (customised colours from 500 m²). • Processing of thicker cut veneer. • 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...

"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 our mission. Decospan not only has an environmentally aware procurement policy, it also aims for CO2-neutral production. Decospan’s principal raw material is wood veneer. The trees that supply us with wood veneer also serve to store carbon and produce oxygen (more about why this is important 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 also do everything we can to guarantee our customers that...

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. Using a simple calculator you can calculate the CO2 storage of products existing of one wood specie as well as of multiple wood species. It takes also into account the...