Greenbelt www.greennbelt.ie was established in 1982 by Tim O’Brien and Mossie Ryan and has evolved into Ireland’s largest private forestry company, employing up to 600 people at peak season and managing more than 250,000 acres of privately owned woodland in both Ireland and UK.

Greenbelt has an average annual planting program of 3,000 hectares with clients ranging from farmers to large financial institutions and pension funds.

Under the Green Belt umbrella, a number of other companies also operate

• Green Belt Panama ltd – provides management services to existing and planned teak plantations in Panama.

   

• Imperative Energy ltd – a leading supplier of bioenergy solutions to clients in the commercial, public and industrial sectors through purposely built biomass plant at the client’s site.

   

Green Belt’s core business encompasses all aspects of forestry management, including;

• FOR INVESTORS WHO WANT TO PLANT LAND: Sourcing land (home and abroad) suitable for forestry investment and the planting and management of same until the forest is established (minimum of 4 years)

   

• FOR FARMERS WHO WANT TO PLANT: We provide an all inclusive service from initial site assessment to dealing with all relevant paperwork to developing and managing the forest on your behalf until the forest is fully established (minimum of 4 years).

   

• FOR ALL CUSTOMERS: We provide management services at all stages of forest maturity including provision of fire and reconstitution insurance, road building, valuation and timber marketing & sale.

   

• HARVESTING: Green Belt are actively involved in both thinning and clearfelling forests under our management and fees are based on a percentage of revenue raised from timber sales.

   

For all your forestry needs Green Belt Ltd has recently developed an innovative private sector harvesting contract. This contract gives the customer the ability to lock in to a minimum price per tonne for all timber harvested. The contract also facilitates the construction of suitable access and ensures professionally supervision and control of all harvesting operations.