Our Story

About Coillte

Coillte, Ireland’s semi-state forestry company, is responsible for managing 440,000 hectares of primarily forested lands. It is the nation’s largest forester and producer of certified wood, a natural, renewable and sustainable resource. Coillte is also the largest provider of outdoor recreation space in Ireland, it enables wind-energy on the estate, processes forestry by-products and undertakes nature rehabilitation projects of scale. Coillte delivers the multiple benefits of forestry, including forests for climate, for nature, for wood and for people

Coillte is part of a wider forestry sector, that together manages approximately 11% of Ireland's land, supports 12,000 jobs and contributes €2.3bn to the economy annually.

Our Vision, Mission and Purpose

Our vision is to create a sustainable future for all.

Our mission is to balance and deliver the multiple benefits of our forests to society.

Our purpose is to manage the state forests on behalf of the people of Ireland.

We have set out a series of ambitions, across four strategic pillars including:

Forests For Climate ->

We aim to increase the amount of carbon stored in our forests

Forests For Nature ->

We aim to diversify our forests and increase biodiversity

Forests For Wood ->

We aim to produce a sustainable supply of timber and promote innovative wood products.

Forests For People ->

We aim to create world class visitor destinations and rural jobs.

OUR BUSINESS

Forestry is our core business where we manage approximately 7% of the country’s land. We are the largest supplier of roundwood in Ireland, enabling a vibrant national forest sector which employs over 12,000 people across rural Ireland. We manage our forests to deliver multiple benefits, forests for climate, nature, wood and people.

Medite Smartply is Coillte’s wood panels manufacturing business. It uses wood grown in our forests and transforms it into innovative, sustainable and renewable wood panel products which are sold to 32 countries around the world.

Coillte’s Land Solutions division works to deliver sustainable business solutions from Coillte’s land. Coillte Nature, dedicated to the restoration, regeneration and rehabilitation of nature across Ireland sits within our Land Solutions business.

OUR PEOPLE

We promote and are committed to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in the workplace. We encourage it through the work we do and how we interact with people.

We strongly believe that having an inclusive organisation with diversity of perspectives and experience, enhances our decision-making and ultimately our performance.

CEO Message

Coillte is a very special organisation with a proud heritage and an exciting future

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Vision & Values

To Create a Sustainable Future from Our Forests and Land

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