Malaysia-based timber products exporter Lionex has celebrated its 40th anniversary.
Lionex’s European sales director Frank Teeuwen said the business was growing rapidly in the UK, especially with bangkirai decking, meranti sawn timber, sapele “select” sawn timber and mouldings.
It is also developing markets for its Tergao DEX high-compressed strand woven bamboo and meranti FSC interior door frames.
Established in 1971 as the purchasing office for the then Fetim/Bekol group in Kuala Lumpur, Lionex moved to Singapore and developed as an exporter of mainly Indonesian timber that was inspected and dried locally for the European market.
Lionex returned to Kuala Lumpur in the 1980s when the flow of wood shifted back to Malaysia.
In the mid-1990s Lionex, together with the Dutch company Bekol International, was taken over by DPW van Stolk Holding, a timber company based in Rotterdam but operating internationally.
Since 2000, Lionex has developed an extensive portfolio of value-added timber products for its European customers including KOMO finger-jointed and laminated components, a range of mouldings and a complete decking programme.
The majority of the products are channelled to DIY markets, construction firms, building component distributors and factories producing doors and windows across Europe and the Middle East.