Vanhauwaert

Complete flax processing lines, turnkey

Vanhauwaert is a Belgian system integrator of flax and hemp processing lines. The company designs, builds and commissions complete processing lines: decortication, scutching, sorting, baling of the finished fibre. Turnkey solutions — from raw material analysis and hall design through assembly, commissioning and staff training.

Flax is a chain: from seed, through harvest and scutching, to industrial fibre.

Van de Bilt (genetics and seed) → UNION (harvest) → CRETES (scutching) → Vanhauwaert (fibre processing). Each machine serves one link of the same process.

Kuurne, Flanders, Belgium

Constructiewerkhuizen Vanhauwaert & CO-Ateliers NV is an independent Belgian family business from Kuurne (Flanders), operating for over a hundred years and run by the fifth generation of the family. Unlike manufacturers of individual machines, Vanhauwaert positions itself as a system integrator: it does not manufacture machines but designs and builds complete lines, combining equipment from specialist manufacturers (including Cretes and UNION) into a coherent processing line. It develops seed and shive cleaning installations in cooperation with Cimbria. In the RUTHENIA ALBA offer, Vanhauwaert is complementary to Cretes and Union — it is not part of the Valtech group.