Discover the sustainability of poplar

Knowing what is inside and what goes before a product is crucial. With the aim of telling the story of our supply chain and our work, we wanted to show in detail all the advantages of using a sustainable and environmentally friendly material such as poplar.

Poplar breathes for us by absorbing CO2

To increase the absorption of CO2 in the atmosphere, it is not enough to preserve existing trees, we need to plant new ones¹. Fast-growing vegetation is the one that absorbs the most CO2. The poplar is in this sense virtuous (or efficient?) because it has a rapid development rate (from planting to maturity takes about nine years). ...

Each hectare of poplar grove (200 to 330 trees) absorbs an average of 20 tonnes of CO2 per year², about the amount produced by four people in the world (4.8 per capita). About 16 million hectares of poplar groves would be needed to compensate for the CO2 produced by Italians alone. In 2017 there were just 46 thousand, two-thirds less than forty years earlier (in 1968 there were 157 thousand). We are a long way from the target (or falling behind the target). The poplar industry supports new plantings and promotes greater carbon absorption.

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Our panel stores CO2 and takes it away from the environment³

By producing natural poplar wood panels, we are not only selling an excellent panel, but also the atmospheric carbon storage sequestration (CSS) ecosystem service that the tree performed until it matured. In a positive balance net of the CO2 emitted during processing, throughout its life cycle the poplar panel continues to perform the function that was the function of the tree from whose wood it was produced...

stores (or sequesters) CO2 taken from the atmosphere in the long term and actively contributes to climate change mitigation. 1 m3 poplar panel has a storage capacity of 0.098 tons of CO2 thanks to the wood used 1 truckload of poplar panels (45 m3) has a storage capacity of 4.4 tons of CO2 average emission per inhabitant in Italy = 5.4 tons of CO2/year (data from 2021).

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A 0 km material: The raw material for our panels is mainly white poplar wood. Very common in Italy, where its cultivation is the only example of silviculture (i.e. planned cultivation of woods and forests), poplar is mainly used in the production of plywood and paper. For our Lombardo Poplar, Lombardo Feather and Lombardo Poplar/Fir panels, ...

we largely use poplar cultivated in Friuli-Venezia Giulia, the fourth largest region in Italy after Lombardy, Piedmont and Emilia Romagna – areas historically vocated to this cultivation. The proximity of our plant to the cultivation sites reduces the negative ecological impact of long transports.

● 70% of our poplar comes from within a radius of 100 km or less

● 90% of our poplar comes from within a radius of 200 km or less

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The poplar’s roots filter out contaminants in the soil (phytodepuration): The poplar tree performs a buffering action capable of filtering contaminants, such as fertilisers, present in the soil in which it grows through its roots.

“At last we reached the plains of Capua […] in the afternoon a beautiful, flat region lay stretched before us […] rows of poplars are planted in the fields, and vines climb up their well-pruned branches.” (J.W. Goethe, Italian Journey)

Sources

① Decreto Clima n.111 del 14/10/19.
② A. Maggio e altri, “Analisi della pioppicoltura italiana”, 2019.
③ A. Carzaniga, “Il mercato potenziale dei sistemi ecosistemici per valorizzare il sistema della pioppicoltura”, 2019.
● L. Saulino, A. Saracino “Analisi del ciclo di vita dei manufatti in legno di pioppo”, 2019.
● https://www.cei-bois.org/
● https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/745874
● https://www.reteclima.it/l-albero-mangia-la-co2/
● https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/EVR1-CT-2002-40027
● https://grafici.altervista.org/emissioni-di-co2-pro-capite-e-totali-in-italia-e-altri-paesi/
● https://lab24.ilsole24ore.com/cop27-dati-CO2-mondo/
● https://www.federlegnoarredo.it/it/associazioni/assopannelli/approfondimenti-news/pioppicoltura/la-pioppicoltura-italiana
● https://eon-energia.com/magazine/innovazione-e-ambiente/emissioni-co2-calcolo-impatto