General Terms and Conditions

1. All of our offers and sales are subject to the terms and conditions set out below. These conditions are deemed to have been taken note of and approved by the buyer.
2. All of our offers are subject to contract.
3. Orders are finalised only once they have been confirmed in writing by an authorised representative of our company. Our organisation is not responsible for the punctual delivery of orders in cases of force majeure, such as strikes, necessary factory stoppages, industrial accidents, lock-outs, and so on.
4. The delivery times stated in the price offers, order confirmations, etc., are approximations of the periods in which the goods leave our warehouses. The delivery times will be adhered to wherever possible, but we cannot be held liable for late deliveries.
5. The goods are sold and accepted in Lommel.
6. In order to be valid, all complaints must be received by registered mail within eight days of the date of delivery. Usage, even of part of the delivery, implies that the received goods have been accepted.
7. We cannot be held liable for consequential damages.
8. We reserve the right to charge for goods in keeping with their delivery, even in cases where they are delivered in batches.
9. We reserve the right to review our conditions and prices if required by the market conditions, even during the course of orders.
10. Retention of title
    1. The goods remain the property of the supplier until payment has been received in full and may be repossessed by the vendor, even if the goods have already been treated or processed (in full or in part).
    2. Article 10a shall also apply if the buyer has already sold the goods.
    3. All deliveries are made exclusively subject to the provisions of articles 101 – 108 of the Dutch Bankruptcy Act of 08.08.1997.
11. The price must be paid in full and all obligations under these terms and conditions of sale must be met by the parties who ordered the goods. If the invoice is written to a third-party on the ordering party's request, the ordering party shall remain jointly and severally liable to the vendor for compliance with all obligations under these terms and conditions of sale.
12. Non-payment of a bill on the due date shall render all outstanding amounts immediately due and payable, irrespective of the previously agreed terms and conditions of payment.
13. In the event of a partial delivery not being paid for on the due date, we reserve the right to set aside the balance of the orders.
14. In the event of one or more invoices not being paid within the set time, the buyer will forfeit by operation of law and without any notice being required a penalty equal to 10% of all outstanding claims, with a minimum of € 100. This penalty is stipulated with a view to covering our extrajudicial debt collection costs and the costs of taking out credit. Furthermore, interest of 1% per month will be payable by operation of law and without any notice being required with effect from the due date.
15. Our prices are: carriage-paid.
16. The buyer is free to have our goods inspected prior to their shipment at their own expense provided that notice is given in good time. If this right is not used, the goods will be regarded as having been received and definitively accepted.
17. The district courts in Hasselt (or any other court to be decided at the vendor's discretion) are competent to adjudicate objections/problems arising from the agreed transactions, both in Belgium and abroad.
18. Exclusively the Dutch text has legal effect.