PRIDE IN THE PRODUCT BROCHURE

The Wood Marketing Federation launched its new wood promotional booklet Wood Ireland – Pride in the Product in  2013 at Timber Expo, NEC Birmingham. The book is aimed specifically at our UK audience. It was a huge success and provided conclusive evidence that the Irish forestry and forest products sector is truly open for business. The 64-page booklet illustrates a vibrant industry, which is now export oriented. Pride in the Product has been circulated at exhibitions, seminars, workshops and trade shows in Ireland and the UK including Timber Expo. Enterprise Ireland has also agreed to circulate copies to customers and other stakeholders in the UK.

Tom Hayes, Minister of State with responsibility for forestry receives a copy of Pride in the Product….

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Wood and food in Garden of Plenty in Bloom   (click to see brochure here)

Irish timber processors in the Wood Marketing Federation  and food producers combined this year at Bloom to create a unique garden. Designed by Eugene Boyle, The Garden of Plenty – Sustainable Living which won the Silver Gilt medal. It was the first time that this combination – food and wood – was attempted at an Irish exhibition, which is surprising as both are compatible in many ways.

The Garden of Plenty – Sustainable Living, is a small interpretative and productive garden that began life at 8^th Festival Internacional de Jardins de Ponte de Lima in Portugal last summer. The visitors to the Ponte de Lima festival would certainly appreciate the wood and drink connection as it just north of Douro Valley where the famous port wine is stored in oak barrels. The garden was….

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The Wood Marketing Federation fully supports the EU Timber Regulation which came into force on 3^rd March 2013. It has briefed its members and the wider timber industry on its implications including a meeting in Coillte HQ Newtownmountkennedy on Tuesday February 26.  Chaired by Paul Harvey, WMF Chairman, presentations were made by:

• Stephen Fitzpatrick, Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine, who provided an  update on the regulation and its implications for the wood industry.
• Ann  Weddle,  NEPCon UK & Ireland on the role of Monitoring Organisations.
• Pat Neville, Coillte Stewardship & Risk on the Coillte view.

 EU TIMBER REGULATION

 The European Union Timber Regulation (EUTR) came into force on 3^rd March 2013.  After that date any operator who places timber or timber products on the EU market for the first time must ensure that they have been legally produced.

 EUTR places an obligation of due diligence on importers who will face severe….

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THE WOOD MARKETING FEDERATION (WMF) recognises the enormous challenges facing the forest industry especially in its drive to increase export market share for home-grown timber. We promote the sector to key decision makers and stakeholders as a vibrant sustainable industry with major economic, environmental and social benefits.

A project we have identified for our 2012-13 programme is Vessel by the award winning architects O’Donnell + Tuomey. This is a major international project, which will promote Irish design and culture at the Venice Biennale. It also has huge potential in promoting Sitka spruce, a species at the centre of our forestry and forest products industry.

The Venice Biennale, begins in August, is regarded as the world’s greatest architectural exhibition. It is visited by the most influential international architects, designers, urban planners, developers and critics.

O’DONNELL + TUOMEY ARCHITECTS exhibited at the Biennale in 2004. This year David Chipperfield, artistic director, Biennale, has invited them to prepare a special….

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The Wood Marketing Federation timber pavilion, which was launched at the 2009 Plan Expo show in Dublin provided the exhibition space for the Irish delegation at Timber Expo 2012 in the Ricoh Arena, Coventry.

The exhibition which was commissioned by the Wood Marketing Federation in 2008 featured Irish wood using eased edged all over Sitka spruce sourced from Murray Timber. Designed by the award-winning architect Ciaran O’Connor, the result was widely acclaimed at the time by visitors to Plan Expo.

The Wood Marketing Federation was delighted that the show organisers, Coillte,  Enterprise Ireland, Murray Timber Group, Grainger Sawmills and Glennon Brothers.

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