Krimpen aan de Lek, April 4, 2022
Dear relation,
We hereby inform you that the Royal Boogaerdt Group, of which Houthandel Boogaerdt BV is a part, has rearranged its activities.
The activities of Boogaerdt Hout were transferred by Houthandel Boogaerdt BV to the legal entity Natuur Hout BV as of April 1. The current contracts with your organization have been transferred to Natuur Hout BV as of this date.
The administrative changes.
The company details, bank account number and ascription have been changed as of April 1 to:
| Company Name: | Natuur Hout BV trading under Boogaerdt Hout |
| IBAN: | NL58 DEUT 0265 0004 35 |
| Attribution: | Deutsche Bank AG, regarding Boogaerdt Hout |
| BIC: | DEUTNL2A |
| Trade name: | Boogaerdt Hout |
| Mailing address: | PO Box 2009 |
| 2931 AG Krimpen aan de Lek | |
| Phone number | 0180-551 552 |
| Chamber of Commerce number | 20047459 |
| EORI number | NL006586570 |
| VAT number | NL006586570B01 |
What doesn't change?
Our relationship ! You continue to do business with the same people.
Your contacts at Boogaerdt Hout therefore remain unchanged and can be reached at the known email addresses and telephone numbers.
From lock doors to handrails and from guardrails to decking. At Boogaerdt Hout, which is part of the Royal Boogaerdt group, they don't shy away from it. “Because of the strength and durability of the material, wood can be used in many sectors,” says Lars Bastiaansen, who has been working at Boogaerdt Hout for eleven years and specializes in the application and processing of wood in wet construction. “You see that wood is being used more and more often in civil engineering. Traditionally mainly in hydraulic engineering, at lock gates, barrier works, bridges, jetties and railings...
Ref.: PvdH/Secr
Dated: June 29, 2021
Press release Royal VVNH 'The special timber market situation with rising prices continues'.
Almere, June 29, 2021 Although recent newspaper reports reported falling timber prices in the USA - to still very high price levels - this in no way reflects the situation in Europe and the Netherlands. Wood and panel material importers are still confronted with further rising prices from their suppliers when purchasing for the next six months. Although the balance between supply and demand will return, this is a situation that is expected to continue for the next six months.
The main causes have not changed significantly since the start of the special market situation. The underlying cause is and remains the global Corona pandemic, which has caused production capacity to be reduced here and there. In addition, the US tariffs on Canadian timber ensured that both Chinese and American traders managed to find European sawmills from May 2020 and noticed that European timber prices were more attractive and therefore started purchasing extensively - especially in Germany. The global dislocation of containers resulted in container rates from the Far East to Europe increasing dramatically from December 2020. The Suez Canal blockage has certainly not improved the situation, but unfortunately the price normalization for container freight expected earlier this year has not yet occurred.
Although the main causes mentioned apply to almost all wood and panel materials, the large range also causes some differences. Although softwood production in Scandinavia has increased considerably in the first months of 2021 compared to the same period in 2020, stocks are lagging behind over the same comparable period. Despite record production in Scandinavia, stocks there are still historically low. It is noted that the sawmills have already been sold out for Q-3 of 2021 and that the shortage is expected to continue until Q-4. The effect on the price will vary, but price increases for 45% compared to previously implemented price increases have already been noted. Now that the price level in the USA is declining, the question is how German sawmills will respond to this in the long term. This may increase availability for Europe again, but the effect – if it occurs at all – will not become apparent until or after Q-4 2021.
Paul van den Heuvel, director of VVNH: 'The current market situation presents the sector with a special challenge, but the members of the VVNH have still been able to properly supply their regular customers. In addition, as Gert Jan Nabuurs professor WUR recently published, 1 billion m2 grows annually in European forests3 of which 600,000 m3 is harvested. It is estimated that for 300,000 timber-framed homes approximately 15 million m3 is needed. There is therefore no shortage of forest areas, timber supplies and timber construction options. We are on the right side of the line with sustainably produced wood products and it is expected that the balance between supply and demand will certainly return.'
Partly because of the different regions of origin, hardwood and panel material products have their own market dynamics. The container shortage and increased freight costs have a direct impact on both the supply and the price of various wood products. Sea freight rates have now risen to unprecedented levels and it is now expected that this will continue at least until early 2022. Malaysia has been in lockdown since early June '21 and an extension has recently been announced. The country is the most important supplier of wood species for the Dutch carpentry industry for the production of windows, frames and doors, among other things. The developments result in price increases ranging from 40% to 50% on top of the increases already implemented.
Hardwood from Africa for construction and especially civil engineering has increased in price much less in percentage terms than softwood, but this continent is also faced with production and logistics problems (locally and to Europe), with increases in export taxes and with higher round wood prices by an attracted market in the Far East. These factors have led to a higher price level, which is now expected to stabilize at current levels.
It can be concluded that the supply of wood products across the board from the production countries is scarcer than desired and that sawmills and producers have and are implementing significant increases on softwood, hardwood and panel materials. On top of this, there are still exceptionally high container rates for shipments from the Far East. As a result, cost prices have risen faster than sales prices, which is why it is expected that Dutch timber traders will start calculating with the replacement value.
Van den Heuvel: 'Our members naturally inform their customers directly about the situation so that they can respond as best as possible with their production processes and projects. It is the function of the timber trade to maintain availability so that the timber continues to find its way into great projects.'
Note for editors: For more information, please contact Paul van den Heuvel, director of Royal VVNH E. p.vandenheuvel@centrumhout.nl | T. 036-5321020.
in 2020, 93.7% wood and board comes from sustainably managed forests
The annual Probos report among VVNH members shows that the share of demonstrably sustainably produced wood and panel material (with CoC certificate FSC and/or PEFC) increased to 93.7% in 2020. That is an increase of 1.8% compared to 2019. With this great result, the VVNH target for 2016-2020 to achieve a 90% share of sustainably produced wood and panel material has been amply achieved.
In 2020, the VVNH members will import more than two million m³ of softwood, hardwood and panel material. For softwood and panel material, the share of sustainably produced in 2020 is 98.8% (-0.4%) and 98.2% (+2.3%) respectively. Of the hardwood, 67.2% (+4.8%) in 2020 comes from certified sustainably managed forest with CoC certificate.
Paul van den Heuvel, director of VVNH and Centrum Hout: “It is great that despite all the difficult circumstances in corona year 2020, the increase has continued after stabilizing in 2019. Crucial here is and remains the consistent and massive demand for sustainably produced wood. Thanks go to all partners within the Agreement to Promote Sustainable Forest Management and in particular to the Dutch Trade Association of the Carpentry Industry, whose members have purchased and used sustainably produced wood on a massive scale." The analysis that Probos makes of the figures can be found on the VVNH site.
Throughout our history, wood has been available to humans as a versatile, sustainable and renewable raw material for the manufacture of wood products and our shelters. Nowadays, an extra component has been added and wood is perhaps even more valuable. Using wood as part of an economic bio-based development strategy can stop and even reduce global warming and other harmful climate influences caused by human activities.
The majority of scientists agree: man-made greenhouse gas emissions from the use of fossil fuels, finite resources and energy-intensive materials contribute to global warming. To reverse this, we must immediately reduce those emissions by changing our behavior. It is becoming increasingly clear that global economic growth can only be achieved if it goes hand-in-hand with care for the environment. There is a growing need to achieve a biobased circular economy based on the use of renewable materials with a low CO₂ footprint, such as wood.
As a natural, renewable material, wood has a low-energy production and processing cycle with exceptional...
little environmental impact.
It all starts in the forest, where trees grow by converting carbon dioxide and water into nutritious sugars and oxygen with the help of sunlight. Carbon dioxide, CO₂, the main gas causing global warming, is stored for generations. Due to the reforestation policy of planting and natural regeneration pursued in Europe, the European forest area continues to expand, with positive social, economic and environmental consequences. Extraction, production, transport and use of wood from sustainably managed forests requires little energy. Innovations in processing, machining and construction technology also make it possible to use wood in increasingly technical and high-quality applications to replace man-made materials and semi-finished products. The growing awareness that today's consumer society puts pressure on the health of our planet makes increasing the use of a bio-based circular material such as wood during production and processing extra attractive. Wood can be recycled into many new products and applications and used as a renewable, CO₂-neutral energy source at the end of its life.
Low-carbon construction
The combination of the environmental qualities and performance characteristics of wood is perhaps most effective in construction. The construction sector is responsible for a significant part of CO₂ emissions. The use of wood products and wood-rich building systems are therefore the ultimate solution for a low-carbon construction method. Timber construction systems and building components
wood are energy efficient compared to other materials, during processing, production, transport and application. She
also result in extremely energy-efficient utility and residential buildings in use and maintenance.
Using the sustainability potential of wood
Wood is increasingly proving itself to be one of the most important materials within biobased and circular economic models.
Extensive life cycle assessments (LCAs) confirm the low environmental impact of wood and wood products compared to
alternatives.
Developments in wood technology do not stand still. Setting up advanced, industrially manufactured wood components
architects and constructors are able to build better, bigger and higher. At the same time, innovative and more environmentally friendly preservation methods, wood modification and thermal treatment options increase the natural sustainability of the raw material.
New wood composite materials are in great demand in various applications and sectors. The energy yield of renewable wood-based fuel also continues to develop.
European governments and the timber sector have jointly committed themselves to improving and guaranteeing the sustainable and legal origin of the raw material wood.
The European timber industry is therefore convinced that we are only now beginning to unlock the potential of wood.
The wood sector in Europe not only makes an environmental, but also an important economic contribution to the biobased economy. The industry consists of more than 170,000 large and small companies and employs approximately one million people. The annual contribution to the EU's gross national product is approximately €133 billion. The timber industry also clearly has the capacity and ambition to grow further and faster and play a central role in Europe's bio-economic development.
Source: WOOD BUILDING THE BIOBASED CIRCULAR ECONOMY Centrum Hout 2020.
Photo: © Nathan Anderson
We have a beautiful and positive message for you: 'BUILDING IS IN OUR NATURE'. It illustrates our positive attitude in uncertain times. Because tomorrow offers new opportunities and possibilities and demands more than ever for a liveable and sustainable world. So it's time for a new and logical view of how we build. So it's time to build with wood.
That means back to work in the garden!
This year, Boogaerdt Hout has made major purchases. With many beautiful solutions for above and in the water. Consider a Tali or Bilinga scaffolding with a sturdy Azobé construction. Our Lotus decking parts are extremely stable, artificially dried and have a profiled and smooth side.
Different profiles and types of wood, combined with our processing options, mean that we can deliver a tailor-made product for you as a customer. The possibilities are virtually endless.
View the options in decking components
The Centrum Hout calculation module for CO2 storage in wood has been set up to calculate how much CO2 is stored in your wood products. These products can consist of one type of wood, but can also be composed of multiple types of wood or products. Wood (fibers) in different types of panel material have also been taken into account.
By clicking on the 'wood type' box you can choose a type of wood or panel material. Enter the number of cubic meters of wood for which you want to calculate the stored amount of CO2. If multiple types of wood are used in one product, you can enter multiple types of wood/panel materials. You must enter your gross timber dimensions and gross timber quantities here.
Calculate in 2 steps how much CO2 is captured in your wood products!
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