About us abdigital February 6, 2020

About Us

Who we are

Winksy International FZC is a UAE based company having interests in Timber Products(Logs, Lumber, Veneer, Plywood) and Agro Commodities(Cashews, Sesame, Sheanut).  With an experience of more than 50 years and third generation into the wood industry, the owners have earned a great reputation and recognition in the industry. Company’s continuous commitment towards quality, environment, community and fair practices have made them own different trading divisions in the India and West African sub-continent. Currently, the company is operating with partners present in Cote d’ivoire, India and Suriname. 

We continuously aim to strike the right balance between customer needs and optimizing full recovery of precious raw material. Our role and responsibility towards enhancing urbanization and preserving the most purposeful natural resource – ‘Forests’, has built a great reputation and goodwill for our companies located in different regions and received applause from local forest authorities. Our commitment towards environment and quality can be recognized by certifications obtained by Production facilities: FSC, ISO 9001, ISO 14001, Carb Phase-II, Title-VI & Lloyds.

We procure raw material from different areas: Concessions, Classified Forests, Community Forests ensuring that we have all the exploitation rights as per norms and regulations of the Local Authorities. All raw material is brought in our state-of-the-art facility wherein we are sawing, peeling and manufacturing different grades of Plywood as per EU norms and customer requirements.

We also trade agro commodities like Raw Cashew Nuts, Sesame Seeds and Sheanuts from Cote d’ivoire and Nigeria. In total, we are moving about 10,000 MT of agro commodities annually from West Africa to South East Asia.

Our subsidiaries in different countries are:

Ivory Coast
Nigeria

Our Facilities

SAWN TIMBER

Our sawmill section compromises of 8 Vertical & Horizontal Bandsaws mainly from Brenta, Woodmizer and Primurtini. In Sawn Timber we are making lumber, beams, cants, pallets and others. We mainly deal with in following species:

  • Frake
  • Framire
  • Gmelina
  • Plantation Teak
  • Spanish Cedar

Other species like Iroko, Mahogay family(Acajou, Tiama, Kotibe) etc are present at regular intervals as per availability. We are currently producing approx. 20,000 CBM of sawn timber and its different variants annually.

In order to reduce its carbon footprint, the company has made a constant effort to work with Plantation based species ensuring total sustainability of the natural resources used.

VENEER & PLYWOOD:

Seeing an opportunity in the panel sector, Winksy International ventured into production of Veneer and Plywood from 2018. With the focus to cater international market with veneers, we ensured to start producing regular commercial, waterproof and fire-retardant panels. Innovation with new technology implementation are also key factors in the company. This has led the company to successfully implement and manufacture panels as per EU standards catering different markets. Our product differentiation, offering and first mover benefit has always increased our reach, not only in the traditional European and American markets, but also in Far East and Middle East markets. Our prominent species for veneer and panel production is Fromager/Ceiba & Ilomba. Ceiba is a lightweight species and can be used in varied applications with right treatment and manufacturing processes. Apart from Ceiba, we also use Okoume and Rubber/Hevea veneers to make different specialized panels as per customer requirement. Please see below the list of panels we produce in our facility:
  • Flexible Panels (3mm – 15mm) in CG & LG
  • Lloyd’s Certified Marine BS1088 Panels
  • Furniture Grade Panels
  • Engineered Flooring Platforms
  • Lightweight Panels
  • Film Face Plywood
  • Anti-Slip Film Plywood
  • Melamine Laminated Panels

Our Production Facility