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.

Better still, SmartPly is made from sustainable, fast-growing timber: we only use forest thinnings of new-growth pine and spruce, including the tops which are not used to make any other wood-based product.

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.

• renewable
• energy-efficient
• carbon negative
• new-growth forest thinnings
• sustainable

SmartPly uses far less energy and resources to make than steel, concrete and other building materials. Over 75% of the energy we use in the manufacturing process comes from wood residues and recovered wood. Burning wood by-products as an energy source instead of fossil fuels increases the CO2 benefit still further.

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.

We use pine and spruce thinnings, which are cut to length, debarked and made into uniform strands. This process uses virtually all of the wood; while all by-products such as bark and sawdust are recycled for energy and horticultural uses, and combustion gases are scrubbed and burned.

• energy-efficient manufacture
• locally-sourced timber
• bark and by-products recycled
• combustion gases scrubbed and burned
• environmentally responsible business