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EXHIBIT 21


BALTEK CORPORATION AND SUBSIDIARIES

Subsidiaries of Registrant

December 31, 2002

        The following corporations are direct or indirect subsidiaries of the Company:

 
  Where
Incorporated

  Voting
Securities
Owned

 
Balmanta S.A.   Ecuador   100 %

Compania Ecuatoriana de Balsa, S.A.

 

Ecuador

 

100

%

Maderas Secas C.A.

 

Ecuador

 

100

%

Marines C.A.

 

Ecuador

 

100

%

Plantaciones De Balsa, S.A.

 

Ecuador

 

100

%

Productos del Pacifico, S.A.

 

Ecuador

 

100

%

Recorcholis, S.A.

 

Ecuador

 

100

%

Balsa Ecuador Lumber Corporation

 

New Jersey

 

100

%

Balsa Development Corporation

 

New Jersey

 

100

%

Sanlam Corporation

 

New York

 

100

%

Baltek Foreign Sales Corporation

 

U.S. Virgin Islands

 

100

%

Crustacea Corporation

 

Delaware

 

100

%

Cryogenic Structures Corporation

 

Delaware

 

  94

%(1)

Baltek International Corporation

 

Delaware

 

100

%

Baltek Mercosur, L.L.C.

 

New Jersey

 

100

%

Pacific Timber Ltd.

 

Great Britain

 

100

%(1)

Baltek GmbH

 

Germany

 

100

%(1)

Baltek, S.A.

 

France

 

100

%(1)

Baltek, Ltd.

 

Great Britain

 

100

%(1)

Baltek Scandinavia Aps

 

Denmark

 

100

%(1)

(1)
Includes qualifying shares in the names of individuals associated with the Company.

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