Best China WPC Decking Supplier in France — Direct From Our Own Extrusion Line

The Decking Range

Capped co-extrusion and classic uncapped, hollow and solid. Six of the sections French distributors order most — the full schedule runs to well over a hundred.

Colours — Three Ranges, and Why That Is a Specification Decision in France

Settle colour before the quotation rather than after. In the south it decides how hot the surface gets underfoot; everywhere it decides which grade you are actually buying.

The full colour card

Capped co-extrusion: Teak, Antique, Redwood, IPE, Light-grey, Walnut.
Classic uncapped: Teak, Redwood, Walnut, Coffee, Chocolate, Ebony.
3D embossing: Teak, Red Wood, Walnut, Chocolate, Light Grey, Dark Grey.

In the Midi, start at the lighter end

A terrace in the Var is crossed barefoot for months, and a dark board in that sun gets genuinely hot — nobody can engineer round it. Every composite behaves the same way and so does stone; colour is the only lever. Antique and Light-grey in the capped range, or Light Grey in the 3D embossed range, run noticeably cooler than Walnut, Redwood or Ebony. Say it to the client before the order rather than after.

Grey is in two of the three ranges — not in the classic

Grey is available in the capped co-extrusion range (Antique, Light-grey) and in the 3D embossing range (Light Grey, Dark Grey). The classic uncapped range is brown and black only. So a grey brief is a capped or 3D embossed job, and should be priced on that basis from the first conversation. And the same colour name across two ranges is not the same colour: Walnut in the capped range is not Walnut in the classic.

Two things worth settling before you order

A swatch is an indication, not a match. Screens and print both shift colour, so ask for physical samples in the two or three you have shortlisted — free, you cover the courier, credited in full against your first order. And order the whole job in one batch: pigment goes into the extrusion, so two runs of the same colour will not be identical and a board replaced in year four will not match. Keep spares from the same shipment.

What the Board Is Actually Made Of

French specifiers and bureaux de contrôle ask this before they ask the price. Straight from our own catalogue, with nothing rounded up.

60% wood powder, 30% HDPE

The balance of roughly ten per cent is additives — we would rather say that than quote a figure that adds up to a hundred. On the capped range a co-extruded shield wraps a WPC core, and the shield is the wearing layer: it is what carries the UV resistance that a southern terrace depends on. The material can be recycled and reused at end of life.

Sections, with the dimensions on them

Six of the capped sections with board width and thickness: ZSGJ138H23A and ZSGJ138H23C at 138 × 23 mm, ZSGJ138H25 at 138 × 25, ZSGJ140S23 at 140 × 23, ZSGJ140S25 at 140 × 25 and ZSGJ145S30 at 145 × 30. The capped generation runs round chambers rather than the square cells of the classic range — they clear water instead of holding it. Stair treads are a separate section again; ask for that drawing specifically. Quote the model number back to us and there is no ambiguity.

Surface textures

Four surfaces: H1 straight grain, and H2, H3 and H5 wood grain. Texture and colour are specified separately, so say both when you enquire.

Where French Distributors Put It

Three project types that come up again and again in France. These are photographs of our own installations, not stock images and not renderings.

Installation and Accessories

From our own installation guide. Put these figures on the drawing before the frame goes down — most of the failures we see in Europe come from a frame set out to timber habits.

The gaps, and the double joist

5–7 mm between the sides of adjacent boards. About 5 mm between a capped board and a wall. 3–5 mm at butt joints where two board ends meet. Butt joints sit on double joists — each board end gets its own joist, never a shared one, and this is the detail most often missed. Boards fix with stainless or plastic clips; the joist itself can be aluminium, stainless steel or WPC. Set a gutter at the base so water drains rather than ponds — in the south that matters when the rain arrives all at once rather than steadily.

Accessories, with sizes

Stainless steel start clip, plastic clip, expansion screw, L-shaped corner trim 50 × 50 × 3000 mm, WPC joist 40 × 30 × 3000 mm, aluminium joist 40 × 25 × 2900 mm. Note the aluminium joist is 2900 mm, not 3000 — an easy hundred millimetres to lose when you take off quantities. On the Atlantic and Channel coasts, specify A4 / 316 stainless for the clips and fixings rather than A2.

Ask About a Specific Profile

Send the section, the volume and the département

Inside the Plant

Our own facility in Sihui, Zhaoqing, Guangdong. Photographs taken on site, not stock images. Buyers and third-party inspectors are welcome.

What Owning the Line Gives You

Capacity you can book against

Roughly 2,000 tonnes a month, about 100 containers. What matters to a distributor is not the headline but that a repeat order does not queue behind somebody else's. Send the volume and the date; we answer with a slot, not a hope.

Dies are ours, so sections are ours

We own the moulds and cut them in-house — the photograph above is our own tooling bench. That is why the schedule runs past a hundred sections rather than a catalogue page, and why a market-specific profile is a conversation rather than a refusal.

A test report with every shipment

Goods are checked before despatch and the report travels with them. Routine, not negotiated — and it is what makes a warranty claim a paperwork exercise later instead of an argument.

Certification: What We Hold, and What We Do Not

French specifiers and bureaux de contrôle verify, so here is the whole picture including the scope limits — a certificate covering three profiles is not a certificate covering the catalogue. Ask and we send the document itself.

Get the Documents Themselves

Nothing above is a claim you have to take on trust. Tell us which documents your project needs and we will send the PDFs — certificate, Declaration of Performance with the reaction-to-fire class, and the laboratory reports.

Request the certificates and test reports

What We Do for a Distributor

A first order does not have to be a container

Minimum order is 70 m². Well under a full container, and it exists so a new distributor can test a colour, a profile and our paperwork before committing to a 40HQ. Most suppliers at this end of the market quote 1 × FCL and lose the first conversation.

Samples are free

You pay the courier and we credit it in full against your first order. Ask for a sawn sample: the cut end shows whether the cap runs all the way round the section or stops at the sides. Ask for more than one colour while you are at it — see the card above.

A real number within 24 hours

Send the specification and the volume, get a per-unit price rather than a range. We need: profile, colour, quantity in m², discharge port, the région the deck is going to, and the date it has to be on the ground.

Private label, market-specific sections, testing on your profile

All three are conversations. We own the tooling, we already run sections cut for particular export markets, and where a project needs a test our documents do not cover we will put your profile through the laboratory — fee up front, credited against the order. What we will not do is hand you a result from a different profile and let it pass.

France: Route, Transit and Terms

Loading is Nansha or Yantian, both in Guangdong, both within trucking distance of the plant.

France Is Not One Climate — and the Specification Changes With It

This is the part of the French market that generic supplier pages get wrong. They write one set of advice for a country that runs from the North Sea to the Mediterranean. Tell us the département when you enquire and this section is the reason why.

The Mediterranean south: UV and surface heat, not damp

This is the hardest UV case in any of our European markets, and a long dry summer means the terrace is crossed barefoot for months. A dark board in Midi sun gets genuinely hot underfoot, and no manufacturer can engineer round that — colour is the only lever, which is why the colour card sits near the top of this page rather than at the bottom. The other southern trait is rainfall arriving in bursts rather than steadily: drainage has to cope with a lot of water at once, so fall, clear board gaps and the gutter detail in the installation guide matter more than the annual rainfall total suggests.

The Atlantic west: salt attacks the fixings, not the boards

From Finistère down to the Landes, and along the Channel coast, the air carries salt a good deal further inland than people expect. The composite handles it. Screws, clips, joist hangers and post bases do not — and that is exactly where nobody looks until the deck has to come up to reach them. Near the coast specify A4 / 316 stainless rather than A2, and put the fixing grade in the quotation rather than leaving it to whoever is on site.

The continental east and the mountains: frost and the expansion gap

Alsace, Franche-Comté, the Jura, the Alps and the Massif Central behave much more like our Polish market than like the Midi. The annual swing is wide, frost goes into the ground, and the expansion gap becomes the first thing to get right rather than a footnote. A board butted tight to a wall in February has nowhere to go in July, and a buckled deck is a full relay with no partial fix. The figures are in the installation section above — about 5 mm to a wall, 3–5 mm at butt joints — and where boards are laid cold, work to the upper end of the range.

Around a pool, be careful which slip number you are being shown

France has more private pools than any other European market, so this comes up constantly. Our slip result is R10 under AS 4586, ramp method — and that is the SHOD wet test. The barefoot wet method is a different standard and we have not tested to it, so we will not tell you the R10 covers barefoot poolside use. Anyone who quotes you a single slip rating and lets you assume it covers everything is not telling you the whole thing. Separately: the French requirement for a pool safety device attaches to the barrier or cover, not to the deck surface, and we make no claim there.

One habit that is wrong everywhere in France

A joiner sets the frame out at whatever timber decking takes, because that is the habit. Composite has a maximum support spacing and it is tighter than timber, and stair treads are tighter again. Get the figure for your profile in writing and put it on the drawing before the frame goes down. Wrong, and the deck does not fail dramatically — it flexes underfoot permanently, and the fix is lifting the boards.

One More Thing That Costs Distributors Money

The deck becomes a tray

A terrace with no fall, blocked board gaps and a tightly closed perimeter holds water instead of shedding it. In the south that shows up as standing water after a storm; in the east it shows up as a frozen puddle lifting a board. Composite does not take up water the way timber does — what fails is water that had nowhere to go. Fall the substructure, keep the gaps at 5–7 mm, and set the gutter the installation guide calls for.

Warranty, and How a Claim Works

Stepped, not flat

Capped co-extrusion carries 15 years, classic uncapped 10. Both step down by year rather than paying full value throughout: 100% of the value of the affected goods in years 1–3, then 80, 70, 50 and 40% through years 4 to 7, then reducing in bands to 10% in the final years. It covers peeling, cracking and overall uneven fading.

It starts at the destination port

Cover runs from the date the goods arrive and are signed for at the port — not our factory gate, and not the day your customer installs them. That usually works in the distributor's favour.

Certificates are per batch

The schedule that applies is the one on that batch's certificate, which is why the test report shipping with the goods matters. Keep it with the commercial paperwork. If a supplier quotes you a flat 25 years, ask for the schedule — the answer tells you more than the number.

Talk to Us About France

The full enquiry, if you would rather send everything at once. Include the région — it changes what we recommend. You will hear back within 24 hours with a real per-unit price.

Distributor and project enquiry

France: Common Questions