About Omniplex

Experience since 1939. Flexibility & speed ever since.

Omniplex is one of Belgium's oldest timber and panel importers. Today more than 2,000 trailer loads of timber products are permanently ready for you.

Importer since: 1939
Trailer loads of timber & panels permanently in stock: +2,000
Timber & panels traded each year: 120,000 m³
Sites in Belgium & France: 6
Industrial planing machines in Harelbeke: 8

Our approach

Going broad, from stock.

Panels, softwood and tropical hardwood are the three product groups in which we keep a large stock. The fourth pillar is the planing mill, where we process timber into semi-finished products to customer specification.

Besides a large stock, Omniplex deliberately chooses to go broad: a large range in every product group, from stock, sawn and planed. That way you can choose between variants depending on your needs, regulations, budget and requirements.

Use our experience — and our stock — for your business.

Mission & vision

“A satisfied customer is the best business strategy of all.”

We strive to deliver service: with a professional sales team of five reps in Belgium and two in France, we meet our customers' wishes flexibly.

Once an order is taken, our production team and dispatch make sure it is processed quickly and professionally — just-in-time or via call-off stock, all with one goal: a satisfied customer.

Meet the OX-Team

Our history

A walk through more than ninety years of timber history.

From a sales representative for PICUS in 1932 to six sites and eight planing machines today.

1932
The first traces
The Dutch company PICUS from Eindhoven hires a representative for the Belgian market: Mr Leemans senior.
1939
Omniplex is born
PICUS BELGE is founded on Louis Bertrandlaan in Brussels. Its panel department is named “Omniplex”; its plywood is sold as “OmniPly”.
1968
An independent panel company
The panel department becomes an independent company, acquired by timber importer S.A. Snauwaert with its own warehouses and quays in the ports of Antwerp and Ostend.
1975
Market leader in Antwerp
Omniplex moves to the new Luithagen in the Port of Antwerp and becomes a leading importer of plywood and film-faced plywood.
1992
Rombouts group
The Snauwaert-Omniplex group is sold to the Rombouts group in Willebroek.
1995
Part of Finnforest – Metsä Wood
Omniplex joins the Finnish Finnforest Oy – Metsä Wood group, gains international recognition and further expands its imports.
2001
A new home in Harelbeke
Philip Vlieghe — owner of Harelbeekse Houtzagerij and Vlimex — acquires Omniplex, then Belgium's market leader in imported wood-based panels.
2006
Demeulemeester acquisition
Local timber merchant Demeulemeester in Rijmenam-Mechelen joins Omniplex.
2008
Trading & production
Omniplex nv becomes the trading company, while sister company Harelbeekse Houtzagerij handles sawing and planing. Timothy Van Oudenhove joins the management.
2009
New planing mill
The planing mill is completely rebuilt with highly automated planing lines.
2010
2.5 hectares of warehouses
New warehouses in Harelbeke for just-in-time deliveries from reserved call-off stock.
2011
Omniplex France
Our own hub in Méru (Oise), north of Paris, for fast deliveries in Île-de-France and northern France.
2012
A second autoclave
The treatment stations are modernised; a second autoclave brings the total to five installations.
2013
Bavikhove depot
Warehouses on one hectare with three container docks, mainly for panels.
2015
Beveren-Leie depot
Three hectares with two container docks for tropical hardwood.
2023
Eight planing machines
Two new automated Weinig planing machines and a CNC tool grinder: eight industrial planing machines in Harelbeke.
Today
Six sites, one team
Four sites in Belgium, a hub in northern France, around €44 million group turnover and some 120,000 m³ of timber and panels each year.