Samenvatting

Hout Industrie Schijndel(HIS) is one of the bigger timber industries in the Netherlands. Traditionally the company does all kind of subcontracting related to timber. In 2002 they started to produce oak flooring to expend their activities. Nowadays the company is a well known international player on the wooden flooring parquet market. Because of recent development in the market concerning the growth of demand for sustainable oak flooring. The HIS wants to know what possibilities they have on sustainable certify their oak flooring, to supply to this demand. The central research question in this report is: ‘What are the possibilities for Hout Industrie Schijndel of sustainable certifying their oak flooring?’