{"id":74838,"date":"2017-03-13T11:53:17","date_gmt":"2017-03-13T11:53:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tin.happy-projects.ro\/indonesian-plywood-offered-big-opportunities-flegt-license-eu-market\/"},"modified":"2025-09-19T08:46:57","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T08:46:57","slug":"indonesian-plywood-offered-big-opportunities-flegt-license-eu-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.timberindustrynews.com\/ro\/indonesian-plywood-offered-big-opportunities-flegt-license-eu-market\/","title":{"rendered":"Indonesian plywood is offered big opportunities by FLEGT license on the EU market"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Global Timber Forum has published an interview with the CEOs of two European importing companies, Alexander de Groot of Fepco and Koen de Witte of Altripan, that were among the first to receive FLEGT licensed wood from Indonesia.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

The interview highlights both the market opportunities and remaining challenges of FLEGT licensing from the perspective of two of Europe\u2019s largest plywood importing companies.<\/p>\n

According to Alexander de Groot, FLEGT licensing offers a significant market opportunity for Indonesian plywood in Europe as due diligence is no longer required and buyers can be absolutely certain that all Indonesian wood comes from legal sources.<\/p>\n

Koen de Witte said that a large group of customers in Europe have been afraid of buying tropical wood because of possible EUTR problems and related negative publicity but that FLEGT licensing means importers can now start promoting tropical wood to these companies again.<\/p>\n

Koen de Witte noted that products from Indonesia are rather expensive compared to competing materials from China or Malaysia and that logistics can be a challenge, however FLEGT licensing offers an opportunity to promote Indonesian plywood as a legal and high quality, sustainable product. He said that Indonesia will also have an increasing advantage over time as EU Competent Authorities are getting stricter and there are more checks on operators.<\/p>\n

Koen de Witte said that there has yet to be any perceptible increase in demand from their own customers for FLEGT licensed timber, but \u201carrivals of wood from Indonesia have increased over the last few weeks as importers and traders are stocking up on FLEGT licensed material\u201d.<\/p>\n

He also emphasised that it is early days and companies like Fepco and Altripan will now push to increase sales with active promotion and by making the more product available in the market.<\/p>\n

Koen de Witte reckoned that Indonesian wood products are competitive in Europe and their market share will increase - although this will be partly dependent on developments in competing products which, for Indonesian plywood, are mainly from Russia and China.<\/p>\n

He suggested that \u201cthe great variety of products from China \u2013 in very different qualities and not always correctly declared \u2013 is making life difficult. But there are initiatives now to increase transparency and show customers how the plywood is made and what the differences are. This will improve Indonesia\u2019s position\u201d.<\/p>\n

Alexander de Groot emphasized that European governments also have a responsibility now to help promote FLEGT licensed wood. He suggested that FLEGT should, for example, immediately be incorporated in public procurement rules and given the same status as FSC or PEFC.<\/p>\n

He noted that \u201cone of our customers just had a case in Luxembourg, where authorities would not accept FLEGT licensed wood on a bid for a public building project \u2013 they only wanted FSC. This situation cannot continue - if European governments are not behind FLEGT this will sabotage the process\u201d.<\/p>\n

Both CEOs confirmed that of their own customers, the larger distribution groups and merchants in Europe are already familiar with the FLEGT process, but as large corporations their decision-making processes are fairly slow so it might take some time before they start purchasing more FLEGT licensed wood. Smaller merchants are generally less aware of FLEGT.<\/p>\n

At present importers are still more inclined to prefer FSC and PEFC, particularly in the UK and the Netherlands, but here merchants are quickly becoming aware of the importance of FLEGT licenses. France, Belgium and Germany are more difficult as companies there use less certified wood in general and interest in FLEGT is perceptibly lower.<\/p>\n

While recognizing that their Indonesian suppliers had to work extremely hard to achieve FLEGT licensing, both CEOs said that from the perspective of European importers the process has been very simple. The importers only had to register to obtain a FLEGT license number and the rest was pretty much what they always had to do when importing wood.<\/p>\n

For them it basically comes down to uploading some information on a website and is much simpler than having to conform to EUTR due diligence requirements.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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