SmartPly, a division of Coillte Panel Products

Wood is uniquely renewable among building materials. It also has the lowest energy consumption and the most energy efficient thermal insulation properties of any building material. Wood products are also the only building materials with negative net CO2 emissions. This puts SmartPly among the most environmentally efficient building materials on the market. SmartPly is made from sustainable, fast-growing timber: we only use forest thinnings of new-growth pine and spruce. This is one of the main reasons why SmartPly is increasingly being used instead of plywood, which by contrast uses large logs cut from old growth forests. SmartPly uses less energy and resources to make than steel, concrete and other building materials. Over 75% of the energy we use in manufacturing comes from wood residues and recovered wood. By-products such as bark and sawdust are recycled for energy and horticultural uses, combustion gases are scrubbed and burned. All the timber used to make SmartPly is carefully harvested to preserve the forest's biodiversity, productivity and ecological processes. No long-distance transport is involved as all SmartPly is manufactured near to its source - in Waterford, Ireland.