Assolegno, FederlegnoArredo department, today launched the “Italian Wood Exchange”, to bring together the supply chains also for the production of wooden houses. The move comes when the international wood prices are skyrocketing, with a jump between 30 and 60% of the prices (depending on the type). The goal is also to enhance the mountain areas and encourage productive activities in a country that has 11 million hectares of woods, one third of the entire surface. The protagonists of the initiative are FederlegnoArredo and Uncem, National Union of Municipalities and Mountain Authorities, with the aim of activating forms of synergy and facilitating relations with all the realities present in the national mountain territory. A commitment that stems from a common goal linked to the raw material wood, in the name of the conservation and enhancement of biodiversity and the territory in mountain areas and sustainable development models in a supply chain logic.
«We must continue to promote a forest culture based on management and not on abandonment, and the collaboration with Uncem goes in this direction. Our hope is that it will be a stimulus to focus on the Italian forest and the companies that process national wood, the main material of the furniture industry, by launching operational projects integrated with the environmental, landscape, social and economic context – says Sebastiano Cerullo. , general manager of FederlegnoArredo -. The line of action will be the development of local supply chains based on the processing and trade of the woody raw material, with a view to supporting economically and socially fragile areas, through the promotion of the use of wood as a sustainable, renewable material and a central element in the contrast to climate change “.
In this context, tomorrow morning Uncem will sign an agreement with FederlegnoArredo to develop local supply chains and block imports. In this way, demand and supply of wood can meet in a wood exchange. Today 85% of the wood we use in Italy, for construction and for energy, comes from outside the border. The companies want to use local wood and there is no lack of availability. The step is the implementation of the forestry strategy for the country that arises from the Italian forest law of 2018, one of the most advanced in Europe.
In the Canavese area, the first wooden house made entirely of “zero-meter” wood was built and is becoming a national model. It is a structure of 200 square meters.
“Within the framework of the provisions of the National Forestry Consolidation Act, we want to jointly facilitate the development of local supply chains based on the processing and trade of the woody raw material, in particular in those economically and socially more complex areas such as the Alpine and Apennine ones, where there are 11 million hectares of forest, promoting the use of wood as a sustainable, renewable material and central element in the fight against climate change, in the renewal of the building sector – explains Marco Bussone, National President of Uncem – We can thus define continuous forms of collaboration on the issues of common interest for the management of territories and mountain areas, investing resources in shared project activities, operating within the framework of the National Recovery and Resilience Plan, implementing the Green New Deal through Green Communities on which the Italian mountain areas have already started. With Federlegno Arredo we will be able to grow ».