The forest industry sector is considered strategic in provincial policies and this First International Seminar aims to disseminate and to value the great opportunities in developing forest industry in Corrientes.

The province has a forest area of ​​over 500,000 hectares, one of the highest growth rates in the world in species such as pine and eucalyptus, a network of professionals, companies, contractors, service providers, and more than 3 million hectares for forestation make Corrientes a clear reference potential of the forest industry sector.

Corrientes’s forest industry sector in numbers:

- 500 thousand hectares of planted forests.
- 693 wood processing industries (ITM).
- 256 sawmills
- 437 Carpenters
- 2,277,000 tons per year in raw material consumption.
- 400 million ft2 production.
- 1.5 million tons per year as forest and forest industries sub product.