In the second of a series of profiles of exhibitors at Sustainability Now, here is more detail on Coillte Panel Products.
This month鈥檚 virtual event 鈥楽ustainability Now鈥� highlighted essential issues which matter right now for those creating a sustainable built environment.
Coillte Panel Products, a division of Coillte - the Irish Forestry Board, is a significant and powerful player in Europe鈥檚 composite board marketplace and was one of the selected sustainability exhibitors for the unique event with its two leading European panel product operations: SmartPly OSB and Medite MDF.
Both Medite and SmartPly are FSC certified, differentiating them from many competitor and substitute products and enabling them to meet the environmental requirements essential to designers, specifiers, architects and clients for both public and private projects. Medite鈥檚 MDF and SmartPly OSB are both manufactured in Ireland to current building standards and codes, making them not only versatile design and construction materials responsible on forestry and processing terms, but in shipping and transportation terms as well.
Throughout 2008, Coillte Panel Products says 鈥淚t鈥檚 Time To Choose鈥� - a vital imperative providing the focus for a new multi-faceted campaign asking decision makers to be responsible and choose wood products that carry forest certification. Providing proof that the timber originates from responsibly-managed forests helps ensure against forest crime and it is fast becoming a best business practice. This message is being relayed across the construction industries, encouraging timber distributers, architects, builders and contractors to make conscious decisions rather than rely on traditional criteria to determine product choice.
Geoff Rhodes, Coillte Panel Product鈥檚 marketing and business development director says, 鈥淥ur idea is straightforward, and it is being heard loudly: it鈥檚 time to decide what鈥檚 best for your business and your conscience. We鈥檝e made our choice. It鈥檚 time for you to choose.鈥�
