Holzindustrie Schweighofer acknowledged that there were irregularities and reported illegalities in the Romanian supply chain beyond its knowledge as well as logging operations infringing FSC policy by its Romanian forest land enterprise which had acquired in good faith reported illegally retroceded forests.
“We collaborate with our suppliers to ensure we do not allow illegally sourced wood on our supply chain. We have closely watched Schweighofer’s recertification process and we have decided to end collaboration with this company on the construction wood and timber segments,” Hornbach said in a statement Thursday.