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A Case Study of a Croatian Company’s Independent Timber Sourcing

The aim of this research is the business connection model between forestry and wood- processing industry which is, as generally acknowledged, characterized by the timber supply shortage. In the case study of one privately-owned company from Croatia (Požgaj group), we investigated the modality by which the company can ensure the source of raw material that would be independent of price increments and market shortages. This approach is based on the assumption that the company could purchase a forest property large enough to result in timber quantities sufficient for the company’s processing capacities. Based on the last 6-year timber consumption statistics, the company’s required quantities of wood assortments are defined (51, 000 m3 annually). Private forests, which by their tree species composition and wood-processing characteristics (minimal diameters) can fulfil the required timber quantity and quality, are the private productive high forests of common beech, pedunculate oak forests and beech-fir forests. Results indicated that the optimal size of the forest property should be about 18, 000 ha, but only a part of that could be found on the domestic property market. Also, we encounter a misbalance between the capacity of the wood- processing company and the production potential of natural forest resources for what several solutions are presented and discussed.

added value chain ; forest property ; forest management ; market ; optimisation ; wood- processing

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