A new standard: durable landmarks with a lasting legacy

28.10.2025. Long before it graced the floors of Parisian apartments and luxury hotels, herringbone was a feat of Roman engineering. The opus spicatum ("spiked work") pattern was used to build durable roads and paths that could withstand the passage of people and, time. The secret was in the structure: the interlocking V-shaped layout distributed weight and stress evenly, preventing ruts and ensuring remarkable stability.

Architects, specifiers, wood professionals: are we still underestimating timber’s climate power?

16.09.2025.  Two new studies from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) make a powerful case that wood products are a major climate solution — while warning that their potential remains too often ignored or undervalued.

Investing to scale impact as IHC confirmed No. 1 in ESG transparency

12.09.2025. As the world moves towards the USD 480 billion timber and pulp market of tomorrow (FAO, 2023), transparency and responsibility are the new drivers of competitiveness.

We are proud to rank No. 1 in the SPOTT ESG transparency evaluation of 100 timber companies.

Proven Durability: Tali Against Time and Weather

10.09.2025. As autumn approaches, some parts of the world face harsher weather conditions. These are the moments when outdoor materials reveal their true colours.

After 12 years of exposure to Belgium’s weather, Tali (Erythrophleum ivorense, Erythrophleum suaveolens) stands as a natural performer — untreated, yet reliably meeting market expectations.

8 ways our wood products are safe by design

11.08.2025. We don’t sell directly to parents or schools. But we craft our certified hardwood products as if we did.

From sourcing to processing, we apply the same level of care and rigour whether our wood ends up in a private residence, a marina, or a hospital.

How to let light in, soaring energy bills out when dog days bark

04.08.2025.Who hasn’t dreamt of a sun-drenched terrace or a balcony that glows golden at dawn? South-oriented spaces offer the best of natural light—until the season's fiercest heat demands a clever countermeasure.

#WhyWoodMatters: Versatility, The One Factor That Makes African Hardwood a Top Choice

23.07.2025. Investing in multi-purpose, high-quality hardwoods ensures resilience in a fluctuating market and allows companies to maintain a competitive edge by offering diverse product lines. 

Pain Point: Limited wood variety forces processors to source multiple types for different applications, complicating logistics and increasing inventory costs.

Solution: The diversity of African hardwoods allows processors to meet a wide range of market needs with a single supply source.

#WhyWoodMatters: Cost-Effectiveness, Balancing Quality with Affordability

18.07.2025. How do you maintain top-tier quality without compromising your margins?

Pain Point: Premium hardwoods from traditional sources like North America and Europe can be prohibitively expensive.

Solution: African species provide a competitive alternative. 

#WhyWoodMatters: 3 Ways Reliability Transforms Your Supply Chain

03.07.2025. Never have wood processors been more focused on securing a steady supply capable of meeting client expectations—without disruptions or soaring costs.

Pain Point:

Logistics disruptions—whether due to port congestion or trade tariffs—can break the delivery of certain species. The consequences? Financial losses, missed deadlines, and unfulfilled commitments.

Solution:

With continuous access to 1.16 million hectares of natural forest, sustainably managed and audited on-site each year, we ensure a reliable supply of high-quality tropical hardwoods.

#WhyWoodMatters: Large Dimensions, Why Bigger Boards Matter

30.05.2025. Large-format planks are particularly valued in high-end applications such as conference tables, doors, and custom cabinetry, where continuity of grain and minimal jointing enhance the aesthetic appeal.

Pain Point: Many wood sources produce small or irregularly sized boards, limiting design possibilities and increasing waste.

Solution: African hardwood species grow to impressive sizes, allowing for large, defect-free boards.

#WhyWoodMatters: The Importance of Dimensional Stability in Hardwood Processing

21.05.2025. Stability is a critical factor in wood processing since material movement can lead to defects, rework and product returns.

Pain Point: Some wood species warp, shrink, or expand unpredictably, making them unsuitable for precision applications.

Solution: African hardwoods such as Bossé, Kosipo, Taliand Afrormosia  remain stable under varying humidity conditions, making them ideal for flooring, doors, and fine joinery.

#WhyWoodMatters: Workability, How the Right Hardwood Can Save Time and Effort

06.05.2024. Are tool wear and production inefficiencies causing exorbitant costs?

Ask our pro team to advise on the right hardwood for the right use – reduce costs and enhance client satisfaction!

Pain Point: Some hardwoods are difficult to machine, causing tool wear and slow production.

Solution: African species like our Bosse and Sapelli are renowned for their ease of machining, making them a preferred choice for processors.

#WhyWoodMatters: Natural Aesthetic Appeal for Eye-Catching, High-Value Products

29.04.2025. Tap into a lucrative segment of architects, designers, and premium furniture manufacturers who prioritize natural beauty and superior performance in their material selection!

Pain Point: Many wood species lack distinctive grain patterns or rich colours, limiting their appeal in high-end design markets. 

Solution: African hardwoods e.g. Bosse, Kosipo, Taliand Padoukoffer striking grain patterns and deep, natural colour variations. 

#WhyWoodMatters: Durability and Strength, The Key to Long-Lasting Wood Products

15.04.2025. Tired of high product failure rates? Need long-lived wood that stands the test of time? Integrate our species into your product lines!

Pain Point: Many softwoods and low-density hardwoods fail under heavy use, leading to frequent replacements and increased costs.

Solution: African hardwoods like Azobé, Kandaand Talioffer exceptional durability and high strength, making them ideal for furniture, flooring, and construction.

Drive your dream with INTERHOLCO's hardwood: meet us at Dubai Wood Show 2025!

08.04.2025. Are you seeking premium hardwood that marries strength, beauty, and resilience? Join INTERHOLCO at the Dubai Wood Show 2025: Stand C 04, Hall 6, where we’ll showcase our exceptional decking and boules. From 14 through 16 April 2025, discover how our Kosipoand Talican elevate your projects in one of the world’s most dynamic markets. 

Forests Call for Innovation – INTERHOLCO’s Commitment to Sustainable Progress

20.02.2025. INTERHOLCO’s 2024 Sustainability Report highlights our drive for responsible forestry in innovation and transparency. As a leader inFSC® et PAFC™ - certified, high-quality hardwood ‘Made in Africa’, we prioritize economic growth as the enabling condition for safeguarding nature and communities.

Certified Azobé, A Real Work of Art

28.01.2025. Bridges, sheet piling, shoring, and jetties—these essential civil engineering structures come in all shapes and sizes. Sustainability requirements for materials used in such projects are becoming increasingly strict. Among these materials, wood is recognized as a particularly eco-friendly choice, but its environmental impact heavily depends on its origin.

Tali takes centre stage on tantalizing terrace

05.10.2024. Looking for the ideal match for heavy construction, decking, floors and anything which is exposed to the outdoors? Tali doesn’t just fit the bill – it actually exceeds it. Naturally durable and resistant to fungi and insects (use Class 4), strong and very heavy (around 900 kg/m3), Tali sports an enviable fair tone, but is no fair-weather friend.

Who cares wins: Interholco leads ESG transparency rating for timber and pulp companies

28.08.2024.  The future we want has wood at its core and forests stand at the centre. Our no. 1 ranking in the only ESG transparency assessment for tropical timber and pulp companies is tell-tale: https://www.spott.org/timber-pulp/ Because we care, ‘Sustainable’ rhymes with ‘Accountable’. Follow us through!

Forest lovers place their bet on INTERHOLCO’s wood products

14.06.2024. Just like you, we love forests.You care about protecting their wild and majestic environment. We love their unparalleled strength. Let's show our commitment together in the most beautiful way: by protecting the gorilla forests with our ‘Made in Africa’ products – sustainably natural.

Rendez-wood with sustainability and performance at Carrefour du Bois

22.05.2024. Calling out to all wood enthusiasts: from 28 to 30 May 2024, the go-to rendez-wood is at INTERHOLCO's Stand F-25 Hall XXL, during Carrefour International Du Bois.

Our ‘Made in Africa’: sustainability and performance today, tomorrow and always!

How Interholco pushes ‘Forests Forward’ with WWF thanks to science-driven innovation

21.03.2024. It's one of the earliest existing social networks, engineered by nature to allow for communication and personal relationships 24/7. It is open source and wireless, no passwords or wifi needed. A natural tropical forest is a wild thing, yet its wild species need protection: gorillas, chimpanzees and elephants, to name but a few.

Harmony of grain and versatility of use

08.03.2024. Cabinet makers, dream big with our responsibly sourced boules Made in Africa! Utilising all of a board makes sense for economic use? Then, take a good look at our amazing, flat boards: grain and colour guaranteed to match, for project consistency!

Wonder wood and B2B exchange: why the Dubai Wood Show is the place to be

20.02.2024. Are you a carpenter, cabinetmaker, joiner, specifier, furniture manufacturer or fit-out specialist? Then our stand c06b in Hall 6 at the Dubai Wood Show is the place to be - from 5 to 7 March! The genie of the lamp is ready to fulfil your wishes: our 'Sustainable Wood Made in Africa' holds a thousand and one facets. Whatever story you want to tell, indoors or outdoors, our natural species will blow you away.

Ecological construction: more efficiency, comfort and health for all with our wood products

07.02.2024. The Environmental and Health Declaration Sheets (EHDS) for our wood products are now available! Design a more sustainable, low-carbon building that has a limited impact on the environment, giving future occupants the gift of a healthy environment.

Interholco calls for building tomorrow with sustainable wood at Macao Forum

01.12.2023. Wood is a crucially important material for ensuring a sustainable future. This is the opinion of 700 key players in the global timber industry, including representatives of governments, companies, international organisations and research bodies, who gathered at the Global Legal and Sustainable Timber Forum (GLSTF) in Macao SAR, China, on 21–22 November 2023.

‘Friendly fence’ paints the town red: a success story with Tali

18.09.2023. Is the forecast predicting rough weather at your end? Then brace yourself: stark temperature drops, high winds and heavy rain can sometimes cause damage. When a winter storm thrashed his backyard wall in Aarhus, Denmark, eco-techie Kristian Jørgensen knew what to do. He wielded his wood magic on the deteriorated cement. 

Opening up the space, living without barriers

09.08.2023. The housing sector is undergoing profound changes: urban concentration, high land prices, climate change... energy renovation is also one of the issues we have to face. The challenge for project managers: to imagine how to expand existing housing without upsetting the codes. Our answer: engineered wood that is certified sustainable (Forest Stewardship Council, FSC® C022952) and technically reliable (CTB-LCA, KOMO).

Interholco drives ESG transparency

16.08.2023. Climate and biodiversity are closely intertwined. Climate change is one of the main drivers of biodiversity loss, while ecosystem destruction contrasts nature’s ability to regulate greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, precipitating climate change. Just as supply chains must become deforestation-free by 2025 if the Paris Agreement climate goals are to be met, ZSL’s SPOTT (Sustainability Policy Transparency Toolkit) found that there is much the private sector can do. 

Unique living spaces with a focus on nature

19.07.2023. Times are changing: building sustainably and responsibly is no longer a desire but a requirement (RE2020). The supply of raw materials is becoming more difficult and costs are rising, all of which is driving the construction industry to design differently.

We have the solution: glulam and finger-jointed timber.

Co-creating change for 1,300 children in Congo

29.06.2023. In Congo Brazzaville, public schools offer primary tuition for free. Finding quality tuition aid materials, however, is not as straightforward. Especially in the wake of the pandemic.Earlier this year,leadingwood importerGLOBAL TIMBER (Denmark) maderoom to readin the IFO library, run byINTERHOLCO’ssubsidiaryIndustrieForestière deOuesso (IFO) in thevillage ofNgombé.

Fingerjointed timber Made in Africa, joining high quality with KOMO certification

03.04.2023. Interholco is proud to announce that, since September 2022, its engineered wood product line is KOMO^Ⓡcertified, K-33417 for finger-jointed wood products and K-33418 for three-ply laminated scantlings, respectively. Engineered wood is known to be particularly stable and has increasingly attracted attention even for structural applications. Interholco is no beginner as it holds more than 10 years of experience in fingerjointed wood production.

Wood you be my friend? Celebrating International Day of Forests 2023 with Kosipo and Tali

21.03.2023. Rest is an important time to recharge one’s batteries and have a healthy approach to daily work. Sitting by the pool, facing the river Sangha, an ingeniously built hut entices our colleagues in the Republic of Congo to kick back and enjoy their spare time. With long-lasting friends: Kosipo, a magnificent 8 meter long slab of wood hosting lunches and barbecues; and beautifully durable Tali, alternating with Padouk and Wenge, which artfully results in a superb decking.

Interholco’s wood products all set to shine at the Dubai Wood Show (7-9 March 2023)

14.02.2023. This year, do yourself a favour: visit Interholco’sStand C 05bin Hall 6 at the Dubai Wood Show. The reason is a no brainer: this well-established fair is the Middle East’s unique gateway to wood wonders. Wood eases the mind, its warmth soothes the heart. Plus, the sky’s the limit when it comes to wood demand.

The Danish island that tells its tale with African hardwood

30.01.2023. At first it was just a terrace made from Azobé in front of NAVITAS, but then Azobé ran all around it. The civil engineering institute of Aarhus University resides within NAVITAS, an authentic powerhouse of research, innovation and excellence on the island of Aarhus, Aarhus Ø in Danish. 

It’s a Kanda magic – stunning hardwood decking in New Zealand

12.01.2023. Heaven is a place on earth in Langs Beach, New Zealand and the impression will be nothing short of the real thing once you arrive. Nestled on white sands, a brisk hour and a half away from Auckland, this holiday home is the perfect getaway for any length of stay, from a stretched-out day to long weeks.

Sustainable Hardwood Made in Africa, our natural ally in the fight against deforestation

13.12.2022. Last 6 December, the European Union agreed a new law that would ban the import of products linked to deforestation. INTERHOLCO's top priority is to ensure that the harvesting and transport of timber has minimal impact, with no permanent or irreversible change to the services provided by the forest.

African hardwood, 'Fair & Precious' by nature

14.09.2022. With 30 years of experience in the African timber industry, Interholco's Vice President Production and Sales Christophe Janssen has been interviewed by the European Coalition for Sustainable Tropical Timber (STTC). Zoom on Interholco's operations and objectives as a 'Fair&Precious' partner.

One simple step to truly make a difference for forests and climate

22.08.2022. Every week, the equivalent of all the buildings in Paris are built, globally and the pace is increasing. FSC^® has released a call to action for the construction sector: https://youtu.be/ROpmNhRviL0and INTERHOLCO is proud to be featured in FSC’s video.

SPOTT ESG transparency assessment and INTERHOLCO

08.08.2022. This year, INTERHOLCO ranks first in SPOTT’s ESG transparency assessment of 100 timber companies in the tropics. Let’s take a closer look. When it comes to tropical forests, the shortest distance from A to B is, ESG.

The best kept secret in INTERHOLCO's Sustainability report 2022

08.07.2022. Just as 2022 marks INTERHOLCO’s 60^th anniversary, the company launches its latest Sustainability Report. ‘Our wood products are the fruit of a people alliance,’ says Ulrich Grauert, INTERHOLCO CEO. ‘With this publication, we want even people sitting miles away from where we harvest and process our wood to see what our  ‘Made in Africa’ stands for.’  

‘Sustainable Hardwood – Made in Africa’ co-creating a sustainable future for people and planet

29.06.2022. Wood can be used for diverse purposes, with lower environmental impacts than many alternative materials. Wood used once can be reused and recycled, thereby extending its life and further reducing its material footprint.

‘Sustainable Hardwood - Made in Africa’ breaks all records at Europe’s leading timber show

14.06.2022. INTERHOLCO’s ‘Made in Africa’ breaks all records at Carrefour du Bois, Europe's number one trade fair for the wood sector. INTERHOLCO has noted an unprecedented attendance rate and a strong increase in the number of foreign visitors, including several from the United States, Africa and Asia.

The future awaits at Europe’s leading timber show, Carrefour du bois (1-3 June 2022, Nantes)

24.05.2022.You are a trader, manufacturer, carpenter, architect, developer, designer, forester? Your business relations here at INTERHOLCO are sure to be attending the Carrefour du Bois from 1 to 3 June 2022 in Nantes (France), come and join us on Stand A3, Hall 2!

All you need is LOBI, to write a story 1300 children in Congo love

31.03.2022. Easter is fast approaching and INTERHOLCO is launching its new campaign: What does it take to write a story that 1300 children in Congo love?Only one crayon: Lobi! For each Lobi purchased, the equivalent of 15 EUR will be donated to the primary school in the village of Ngombé in the Republic of Congo.

Let’s choose sustainable hardwood for people and planet

21.03.2022. On International Forest Day, INTERHOLCO is delighted to share photos of this magnificent Kosipo staircase, made by INTERHOLCO customer KORA. Everything here is redolent with spring. As if a blessing had fallen on Kosipo, an African wood that breathes the life of Northern Congo’s forests.

Anchoring cities to forests

15.03.2022. Urban forests can transform cities into healthier places to live, not ‘just’ thanks to trees, but also through wood products for furniture and construction.

Carpets unroll for the finest hardwood at Dubai Wood Show 2022

25.02.2022. 8,000 wood professionals know best: from Tuesday 15 to Thursday 17 March, the go-to venue for B2B business is back in Dubai! Carpets unroll, as the popular Dubai Wood Show flies back exhibitors from more than 70 countries. INTERHOLCO and Abalon will once again showcase some of the finest, high-quality hardwood from Africa’s rainforests and temperate forests, respectively.

The future grows with wood

17.02.2022. One month into the new year, wood has turned into the cornerstone of future lifestyles. The ‘digital Neanderthal’ humans have as much of a tendency towards cool technology as they have a compelling desire for coziness, warm materials. In short: high-tech, high-touch – and wood is the natural choice.

Lobi, the art of writing the future

03.12.2021. INTERHOLCO is proud to present Lobi, the spearhead of its first collection made from FSC®* certified Sustainable Hardwood, Made in Africa according to the most demanding socio-environmental criteria. Lobi means 'tomorrow' and 'future' in the broadest sense; the name is derived from Lingala, the most widely used language in Congo Basin countries.