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thinning are required to realise the full potential of Ireland’s
private forests to generate vital income, create employment,
protect our environment and contribute to rural sustainability.
New technologies have been developed - particularly in the
equipment and machinery department - to help with the resizing,
sorting and thinning of wood waste. The timber markets are
continuing to improve in 2010 and it is now critical that
these statistics remain active as we move forward.
The Renewed Programme for Government, set up in 2009, underlined
forestry as a 'Key Sector' for the development of a
dynamic and sustainable future for Irish agriculture. The
programme also recognises that the Irish forestry sector has
a key role to play in addressing climate change - through
carbon sequestration and trough the development of renewable
energy resources. However, for this be realised workers in
the timber industry need to have access to the correct equipment
specific to their needs and requirements.
County Donegal-based company - MacMachinery™
- provides high quality machinery specific to the wood and
timber industry. It supplies machinery for biomass processing,
wood waste processing and biomass from green waste processing.
Some examples of the company's machinery include the Doppstadt
DH910 specific to precision chippers used for the economic
production of wood chips, for the cultivation of woods and
forest stands and for the utilisation of residual wood. Other
applications include recovery of green waste, root timber,
garden waste, branches and logs.
Another example - the Doppstadt DW3060 - is a powerful machine
ideal for wood waste processing. This machine shreds waste
wood, root timber, green waste, organic waste, garbage, bulky
and industrial waste and mixed construction waste.
The Doppstadt SM620 machine is specific for biomass processing
from green waste. Applications for this machine include screening
of soil, compost, bark mulch, waste wood, residual waste,
mixed construction waste and light building rubble.
Having the correct machine specific to the correct application
is Mac Machinery’s mission statement and is evident in every
machine that is sold to its clients.
The future of wood waste is bright and, as long as new innovative
technologies are delivered that will allow farmers, the environment
and anyone involved in this industry, to fully realise Ireland’s
wood resource potential, is the only way forward for the industry.
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