Forstify | Online marketplace for timber

Forstify | Online marketplace for timber

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App for easy and fast timber purchase and selling

Forstify is a forestry industry start-up. The timber market liberalisation inspired the founders to build up a company with bundled competences from the commercial and technical areas that brings together suppliers and buyers of wood in a simple, user-friendly way. The company is established on the market and supports forest owners and buyers in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. In addition to the pure platform, Forstify also offers direct purchase of insect-infested timber (bark beetle) and handles marketing directly as a service. New topics include a wood measurement feature within the mobile app, easy import and organization of log lists, automatic notifications about new regional offerings, a payment feature and additional consulting and services around wood sales. Using the online marketplace, suppliers and buyers of timber can enter into an exchange easily, quickly and free of charge. In doing so, requirements of the forestry industry are combined with the possibilities of modern internet technologies.

Target groups include: Private and public forest owners, forest enterprises, forest enterprise associations (FBG), forest owner associations (WBV), roundwood traders & exporters, timber marketers, firewood buyers, sawmills, paper mills, timber industry, traders, energy wood processors.

 

Type of wood
Stemwood
Origin of wood
Forest
Mobilization Potential
High, simplifies selling timber
Ease of implementation
Easy
Economic impact
Forstify was founded using a gap that emerged when timber markets were liberalized in Germany, and is now growing rapidly
Income effect
Value creation for forest owners through easy and specific offer placement
Specific knowledge needed
Easy to use
Domain
Products, markets, trade
Keywords
online marketplace timber sales
Challenge addressed
5.- Enhance economic and environmental performance of forest supply chains
Type of solution
Marketing platforms
Digital solution
Yes
Innovation
Yes
Country of origin
Germany
Scale of application
Cross-border/multi-lateral (several countries)
Start and end year
2018 -
Contact data
Owner or author
Forstify GmbH
Marco Hartmann and Christian Kaulich
Reporter
Forestry Education Center North-Rhine Westphalia
Dr. Marie-Charlotte Hoffmann
References and Resources
Resources
Android App
iOS & iPad OS App
Project under which this factsheet has been created
Rosewood 4.0