Stimulating the meeting between supply and demand, enhancing local supply chains and bringing the various links in the wood supply chain closer together, is the goal of the digital platform of the Italian Wood Exchange, which for the first time – on May 26 at 5 p.m. at the conference room of the Carnia Mountain Community in Tolmezzo, in the province of Udine – will see its practical application among sector operators, thanks to a collaboration between Assolegno and Legno Servizi.
“The Italian forest and the industrial supply chain connected to it today can be the real driving force in getting to ground a process of ecological transition and decarbonization of our building sector“, explains Angelo Luigi Marchetti, president of Assolegno. “In this framework of new sustainability and a new model of living, it is essential to create synergy between all the links in our supply chain. Potentially, digitization brings operators closer together, highlights their development potential within the market, and harmonizes the forestry sector with the industrial one, harmonizing their language and creating the basis for the definition of a cluster at the national level“.
Marco Vidoni, president of the Wood Group of Confindustria Udine, is also of the same opinion. “With the project of the Italian Wood Exchange more than 400 wood-based assortments have been codified, intended for the construction sector but which a not-so-distant tomorrow could be extended to the sector of packaging and interior finishes, If only we could succeed in decreasing wood imports from abroad by only half, about 600 million euros from private resources could be diverted to the same mountain territories, which in turn could generate further economies of scale by enhancing the value of companies and the use of domestic timber“.
An element that Carlo Piemonte, president of Legno Servizi, echoes, stressing the importance of making synergy. “Actively participating in the valorization of our forests, creating the conditions so that forest uses are increasingly an expression of a regional identity, and that they are able to intercept the needs of the market while looking to the future with a view to sustainability and innovation, falls fully within the new vision of Legno Servizi. It is precisely for this reason that we have made ourselves available from the outset to actively support the project of the Italian Wood Exchange, in order to give an additional tool to the artisan and industrial supply chains that insist on our territory and that see in the FVG wood forest a driver of development and growth of communities. All this is included in a national system perspective that is called to face ever greater challenges, given the shortage of raw materials and the great changes in the scenario taking place internationally“.
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