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Book Synopsis Building a Competitive Forest and Forest Products Industry by : National Association of Forest Industries (Australia)
Download or read book Building a Competitive Forest and Forest Products Industry written by National Association of Forest Industries (Australia) and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Forest Products Marketing by : Steven Allen Sinclair
Download or read book Forest Products Marketing written by Steven Allen Sinclair and published by McGraw-Hill Companies. This book was released on 1992 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Strategic Marketing in the Global Forest Industries by : Heikki Juslin
Download or read book Strategic Marketing in the Global Forest Industries written by Heikki Juslin and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Forest Products Industry of the Future by :
Download or read book Forest Products Industry of the Future written by and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 7 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The US forest, wood, and paper industry ranks as one of the most competitive forest products industries in the world. With annual shipments valued at nearly $267 billion, it employs over 1.3 million people and is currently among the top 10 manufacturing employers in 46 out of 50 states. Retaining this leadership position will depend largely on the industry's success in developing and using advanced technologies. These technologies will enable manufacturing plants and forestry enterprises to maximize energy and materials efficiency and reduce waste and emissions, while producing high-quality, competitively priced wood and paper products. In a unique partnership, leaders in the forest products industry have teamed with the US Department of Energy's Office of Industrial Technologies (OIT) to encourage cooperative research efforts that will help position the US forest products industry for continuing prosperity while advancing national energy efficiency and environmental goals.
Book Synopsis Innovation in the Forest Products Industry by : Abra Hovgaard
Download or read book Innovation in the Forest Products Industry written by Abra Hovgaard and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Because there is a lack of innovation research in the forest products industry and innovative activities in the industry are not well documented, this study attempted to fill that void. The objectives of this study were to understand the process and definition of innovation in the forest products industry, identify the constraints on innovative activities, identify resources that would improve innovation in forest products companies, compare the innovation environments in Alaska and Oregon, and provide a benchmark study for innovation in the forest products industry.??This study revealed that there are several aspects of innovation in the forest products industry. In addition, the innovation process is a combination of semiformal development stages, trial and error, intuition, and luck. A variety of factors constrained companies from being more innovative, including government regulations, shipping and labor costs, lack of cash flow, raw material characteristics, marketing expertise, and raw material supply. There do not appear to be any resources that would be helpful to forest products companies, at least none that the interviewed companies could recommend. Offering companies the chance to exchange ideas and network is the most valuable resource available.??The innovation environments in Alaska and Oregon are somewhat similar yet different in the marketing tactics employed and the techniques used to obtain market information.??Furthermore, the type of innovation projects that each region focuses on differs, as does the actual process used to develop innovations. Future research should focus on completing a quantitative component to this study, developing short courses or 1-day seminars, identifying factors that contribute to innovation success and failure, investigating why the forest products industry is not innovative by nature, and exploring the external acquisition of innovation in the forest products industry.
Book Synopsis Operations Management in the Forest Products Industry by : Richard F. Baldwin
Download or read book Operations Management in the Forest Products Industry written by Richard F. Baldwin and published by Backbeat Books. This book was released on 1984 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Marketing of Forest Products by : Stuart U. Rich
Download or read book Marketing of Forest Products written by Stuart U. Rich and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 744 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Global Forest Sector by : Eric Hansen
Download or read book The Global Forest Sector written by Eric Hansen and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2013-12-04 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Changes in production, demand, supply, and trade patterns; the impact of green building and bioenergy on industry practices and policy infrastructure; and new economies with production advantages and large consumption bases all present challenges and opportunities in the forest sector. With contributions from leading experts in academia and profess
Book Synopsis Income Opportunities in Special Forest Products by : Margaret G. Thomas
Download or read book Income Opportunities in Special Forest Products written by Margaret G. Thomas and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 1993 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes special forest products that represent opportunities for rural entrepreneurs to supplement their incomes. Includes: aromatics, berries & wild fruits, cones & seeds, forest botanicals, honey, mushrooms, nuts, syrup, & weaving & dying materials. Each chapter describes market & competition considerations, distribution & packaging, equipment needs, & resource conservation considerations, & also presents a profile of a rural business marketing the products. Products suitable for small or part-time operators are described. 50 photos.
Author :Minnesota. Governor's Advisory Task Force on the Competitiveness of Minnesota's Primary Forest Products Industry Publisher : ISBN 13 : Total Pages :16 pages Book Rating :4.:/5 (319 download)
Book Synopsis Governor's Advisory Task Force Report on the Competitiveness of Minnesota's Primary Forest Products Industry by : Minnesota. Governor's Advisory Task Force on the Competitiveness of Minnesota's Primary Forest Products Industry
Download or read book Governor's Advisory Task Force Report on the Competitiveness of Minnesota's Primary Forest Products Industry written by Minnesota. Governor's Advisory Task Force on the Competitiveness of Minnesota's Primary Forest Products Industry and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Forest Products Research Guide in Fundamental and Applied Research by : American Forest Products Industries
Download or read book Forest Products Research Guide in Fundamental and Applied Research written by American Forest Products Industries and published by . This book was released on 1945 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Hardwood Forest Products Opportunities by :
Download or read book Hardwood Forest Products Opportunities written by and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Business of Sustainable Forestry Case Study - Industry Context by : Tony Lent
Download or read book The Business of Sustainable Forestry Case Study - Industry Context written by Tony Lent and published by . This book was released on 1999-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The forest products industry ranks as one of the world's most important industries; for the global economy and the environment. It represents close to 3% of the world's gross economic output. The forests upon which it depends are among the most critical ecosystems for the health of the planet and for human well-being. The size of the industry, its links to the rest of the world economy, and the importance of its resource base for environmental services make it the target of intense public scrutiny and government regulation. Understanding sustainable forestry requires understanding the evolving dynamics of the forest products industry an evolution that is increasingly making the cost of wood a smaller fraction of the final value of a forest product.Two frameworks are used here as prisms through which to view the industry. The first section describes how the major business and environmental trends sweeping the industry are transforming Sustainable Forest Management (SFM) into a major industry force. It then outlines the most critical nonenvironmental drivers that make or break all businesses within the industry, and explains how they will influence sustainability issues. The second section describes how all these forces play out within each of the three major industry segments: paper, solid wood, and engineered wood products, and maps out in which parts of the industry sustainable forestry is already a major issue, where it is not, and why.This approach makes sense given the history of SFM. Most sustainable forestry businesses have started from the forest, then tried to move forward to the market. An analysis that assesses the industry and links market conditions back to sustainableforestry supply capabilities reveals where sustainable forestry is well integrated, where it may not have much current opportunity, and where opportunity for closer end-market integration remains untapped.The forces transforming the industry include: tightening supplies, a shift in production regions, globalization, increased raw material efficiency, intensified product consistency, and heightened government regulation. Just as these forces are affected by environmental pressures, they also have environmental impacts of their own.As population growth and burgeoning economies spur the consumption of forest products, wood supplies are tightening worldwide. While no crisis is imminent, the industry is turning to new regions, especially South America and South Asia, as a source for wood. It is also gradually shifting from a supply based largely on natural forests to one that depends on plantations, many located in the southern hemisphere. Just when environmental restrictions are curtailing wood production in many northern countries, heightened demand elsewhere is causing the industry to expand into delicate ecosystems in the Southern Hemisphere. Meanwhile, the industry is becoming increasingly globalized, with raw materials sourced throughout the world to create products for equally diverse markets.Shifts in producing regions and globalization are creating new opportunities for value-added industries in the southern hemisphere. Primary and secondary processing industries will follow wood supplies for financial reasons, as timber producing nations try to capture a larger share of the production from forest products. These changes will draw significant investment to the SouthernHemisphere.Globalization brings improvements in communications, shipping, and distribution that facilitate the transfer of knowledge about state-of-the-art forest management techniques. These same developments make the emergence of an international trade in certified forest products possible. As capital travels to formerly untapped forest reserves, for example those in eastern Russia, the forces unleashed by globalization will exert even greater pressures on forests worldwide in the next twenty years.Evermore efficient raw material use and increasing prroduct standardization are also contributing to the industry's transformation. Over the past several decades, the industry has created many technological silver bullets that enable it to create more product from less wood.The industry-wide drive for standardization and consistency is moving down the value chain from final consumer products through to the forest. Instead of emphasizing efforts to use individual species such as oak and cherry, resources are now allocated to figure out how to make a vanilla feedstock such as rubber wood look and perform like oak or cherry. Eventually, this trend will lead to more investment in processing assets that can guarantee consistency, and a movement toward either tree plantations or homogenization during primary and secondary processing.Environmental forces have flexed their political and market muscles, placing the forest products industry under intensifying public scrutiny and government regulation of its environmental performance. New regulations and market initiatives are curtailing access to government controlled forest resources, and influencing the management of private forests. While a numberof international agreements designed to improve forest practices might eventually affect the industry, few now have the teeth to do so.In the past five years "certification" has emerged as a nongovernmental initiative that may further transform the way the industry manages its forests. Certified forest products are defining the market for wood products grown in an environmentally sound fashion. While the full impact of certification is still unknown, if it focuses the concerns of consumers and purchasers on the quality of the forest from which a product is harvested, and if certification is widely adopted, it could dramatically improve forest management and change markets.How the business and environmental forces affect the paper, panels, and sawnwood segments of the industry will determine, in large measure, the future of sustainable forest products. The paper industry, with its massive capital investments, huge pollution abatement costs, extreme business cycles, and susceptibility to buyer power, has long been beleaguered. The paper industry's recent shift to greater use of recycled paper demonstrates both its vulnerability to outside pressures and its ability to adapt rapidly to a new business environment.Panels and engineered wood products may be a model for the future. Products in this segment, capitalizing on rapid-fire technological advances, are among the fastest growing in the industry. From an environmental perspective, these products' ability to use a variety of woods now makes them more attractive than plywood, the once dominant panel product. On the other hand, certified panel products will be much tougher to bring to market because it is so difficult to ensure that all thewoods used in them come from sustainably managed forests.Sawnwood products draw most of the attention from the certification community. The sawnwood segment is more fragmented, less capital intensive and adds relatively less value to its products than paper or panels. Sawnwood companies in temperate regions that produce hardwood will have opportunities to sell to markets opened up by a new resistance to tropical hardwoods. The forest management practices of softwood producers, however, are under heavy scrutiny, and they will find fewer opportunities to leverage superior forest management. Although tropical countries are under enormous international pressure to improve their forest management practices, most of the internal and Pacific Rim markets they serve, so far, remain relatively uninterested in the environmental qualities of forest products. Niche opportunities, though, are available in Europe to tropical producers that can produce certified forest products.In the future, the successful forest products company will understand and embrace the forces that are transforming the industry. Environmental trends are at the leading edge of these changes, and will be instrumental in determining the industry's winners and losers. Companies that understand the role of the environment will profit by doing so: Those that underestimate the force of environmental issues will do so at their peril."
Book Synopsis Corporate Views of the Public Interest by : Jeffrey A. Sonnenfeld
Download or read book Corporate Views of the Public Interest written by Jeffrey A. Sonnenfeld and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1981-08-30 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Developing a Strategic Plan for a Forest Products Company by : Steven S. Bremner
Download or read book Developing a Strategic Plan for a Forest Products Company written by Steven S. Bremner and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Development and Status of Arkansas' Primary Forest Products and Industry by : Dennis M. May
Download or read book Development and Status of Arkansas' Primary Forest Products and Industry written by Dennis M. May and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Forest Products Annual Market Review 2010-2011 by : United Nations
Download or read book Forest Products Annual Market Review 2010-2011 written by United Nations and published by Geneva Timber and Forest Study. This book was released on 2011-11-30 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Review provides a comprehensive analysis of the United Nations Economic Commission's for Europe (UNECE) region, including the Commonwealth of Independent States, Europe and North Africa. It covers forest products from the forest to the final consumer. The publication includes a chapter covering policy issues related to forest products markets, in particular, energy and the forest sector, climate change and forest products markets, food security versus biofuels, the green building movement, corporate responsibility, Russian forest sector reform, and research and development. It also presents extensive statistical information combined with an analysis of trends and developments. The Review is intended for policymakers, researchers, investors, and forest product marketing specialists in Governments, research institutions, universities and the private sector.