History
How everything came about
Stephan Jahn, who started his career as a young man in the timber business in a planing mill in the USA, and Claudio Kaiser have worked together since 1998, first mainly as agents for plywood from Brazil and Malaysia for German and Benelux markets.
Together they founded IMPAN GmbH in June 1999, taking over the activities of Tozai Products Ltd., UK (Sashi Ohori), specialized in representing renowned Indonesian plywood mills. With those factories and in particular PT KUTAI TIMBER INDONESIA (KTI) a close cooperation and partnership was developed.
In 2000, Anita Klein and shortly after, Jutta Valldorf joined the team for back office. They attend to our business partners professionally, handling incoming orders, coordination of transports by container or truck, supervising timely delivery. Gradually, our business focus has shifted towards plywood and other wood-based panels of increasingly higher quality.
Since 2001, we have maintained close contacts with manufacturers of birch plywood, first from Russia and subsequently also from Eastern Europe and the Baltic States. Step by step, we have expanded our market to industrial customers in Europe (mainly paper laminating industry / door industry). This has led to a successful development of customized products in cooperation with both, customers, and manufacturers, especially for light weight panel products. Equally, we keep supporting the import trade across Europe as reliable link to our mills.
Indonesia has always been our core procurement market for high-quality wood-based panels for the laminating industry as well as for the concrete formwork and vehicle construction sector.
In addition, we also have close contacts with mills in Malaysia and China as well as with manufacturers of birch plywood and poplar plywood in Eastern and Western Europe.
Balsa is the youngest member in our portfolio. Since 2010, we have supplied the model construction and wood-based panel industry in Europe with extremely light weight sheets and core materials from Indonesia – since 2014 also with best plantation grown Balsa lumber from Papua New Guinea.
In 2020, André Pett was recruited as a new team member – since 2021, he has shared the management of the company with Claudio Kaiser.
After Anita Klein took her well-deserved retirement in 2023 after 22 years with the company, Celina Stange now manages the back office together with Jutta Valldorf.
Quality, continuity, ecological and economic sustainability, partnership and close personal contact with our customers and suppliers make us your strong and reliable partner!
History
How everything came about
Stephan Jahn, who started his career as a young man in the timber business in a planing mill in the USA, and Claudio Kaiser have worked together since 1998, first mainly as agents for plywood from Brazil and Malaysia for German and Benelux markets.
Together they founded IMPAN GmbH in June 1999, taking over the activities of Tozai Products Ltd., UK (Sashi Ohori), specialized in representing renowned Indonesian plywood mills. With those factories and in particular PT KUTAI TIMBER INDONESIA (KTI) a close cooperation and partnership was developed.
In 2000, Anita Klein and shortly after, Jutta Valldorf joined the team for back office. They attend to our business partners professionally, handling incoming orders, coordination of transports by container or truck, supervising timely delivery. Gradually, our business focus has shifted towards plywood and other wood-based panels of increasingly higher quality.
Since 2001, we have maintained close contacts with manufacturers of birch plywood, first from Russia and subsequently also from Eastern Europe and the Baltic States. Step by step, we have expanded our market to industrial customers in Europe (mainly paper laminating industry / door industry). This has led to a successful development of customized products in cooperation with both, customers, and manufacturers, especially for light weight panel products. Equally, we keep supporting the import trade across Europe as reliable link to our mills.
Indonesia has always been our core procurement market for high-quality wood-based panels for the laminating industry as well as for the concrete formwork and vehicle construction sector.
In addition, we also have close contacts with mills in Malaysia and China as well as with manufacturers of birch plywood and poplar plywood in Eastern and Western Europe.
Balsa is the youngest member in our portfolio. Since 2010, we have supplied the model construction and wood-based panel industry in Europe with extremely light weight sheets and core materials from Indonesia – since 2014 also with best plantation grown Balsa lumber from Papua New Guinea.
In 2020, André Pett was recruited as a new team member – since 2021, he has shared the management of the company with Claudio Kaiser.
After Anita Klein took her well-deserved retirement in 2023 after 22 years with the company, Celina Stange now manages the back office together with Jutta Valldorf.
Quality, continuity, ecological and economic sustainability, partnership and close personal contact with our customers and suppliers make us your strong and reliable partner!
History
How everything came about
Stephan Jahn, who started his career as a young man in the timber business in a planing mill in the USA, and Claudio Kaiser have worked together since 1998, first mainly as agents for plywood from Brazil and Malaysia for German and Benelux markets.
Together they founded IMPAN GmbH in June 1999, taking over the activities of Tozai Products Ltd., UK (Sashi Ohori), specialized in representing renowned Indonesian plywood mills. With those factories and in particular PT KUTAI TIMBER INDONESIA (KTI) a close cooperation and partnership was developed.
In 2000, Anita Klein and shortly after, Jutta Valldorf joined the team for back office. They attend to our business partners professionally, handling incoming orders, coordination of transports by container or truck, supervising timely delivery. Gradually, our business focus has shifted towards plywood and other wood-based panels of increasingly higher quality.
Since 2001, we have maintained close contacts with manufacturers of birch plywood, first from Russia and subsequently also from Eastern Europe and the Baltic States. Step by step, we have expanded our market to industrial customers in Europe (mainly paper laminating industry / door industry). This has led to a successful development of customized products in cooperation with both, customers, and manufacturers, especially for light weight panel products. Equally, we keep supporting the import trade across Europe as reliable link to our mills.
Indonesia has always been our core procurement market for high-quality wood-based panels for the laminating industry as well as for the concrete formwork and vehicle construction sector.
In addition, we also have close contacts with mills in Malaysia and China as well as with manufacturers of birch plywood and poplar plywood in Eastern and Western Europe.
Balsa is the youngest member in our portfolio. Since 2010, we have supplied the model construction and wood-based panel industry in Europe with extremely light weight sheets and core materials from Indonesia – since 2014 also with best plantation grown Balsa lumber from Papua New Guinea.
In 2020, André Pett was recruited as a new team member – since 2021, he has shared the management of the company with Claudio Kaiser.
After Anita Klein took her well-deserved retirement in 2023 after 22 years with the company, Celina Stange now manages the back office together with Jutta Valldorf.
Quality, continuity, ecological and economic sustainability, partnership and close personal contact with our customers and suppliers make us your strong and reliable partner!
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