A mill-specific roundwood demand equation for southern and central Finland

Schwab, Olaf; Bull, Gary; Maness, Thomas C.

doi:10.1016/j.jfe.2005.05.001

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“…Finally, although we found a win-win situation (financial incentives for both participants, private forest owner and contractor), for conducting a FCT the ultimate decision is vitally dependent on the market situation: is there enough demand for roundwood at the regional level [69] and, evidently, at a global scale [70]? Further, integration of roundwood markets between countries (namely, Sweden and Finland) might generate a boost to local timber supply, as well [71].…”

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Profitability of the First Commercial Thinning, a Simulation Study in Northern Finland

Ahtikoski

Laitila

Hilli³

et al. 2021

Forests

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Despite positive signals from increasing growing stock volumes and improved roundwood trade, first commercial thinnings (FCTs) tend to be a bottleneck in Finnish forest management and forestry. The reasons are many, but probably the most crucial would be the lack of simultaneous economic incentives for participating agents, i.e., private forest owners and forest machine contractors. This is due to poor stand characteristics in most FCT cases: low cutting removal with small average stem size. There are five predetermined management options: (1) Industrial wood thinning with only two timber assortments, pulpwood and saw logs, (2) Integrated procurement of industrial and energy wood, (3) Energy wood thinning solely consisting of delimbed stems, (4) Whole-tree energy wood thinning with an energy price of 3 € m−3 and (5) Whole-tree energy wood thinning with energy price of 8 € m−3, that were applied for six separate forest stands located in Northern Finland, and derived from a database representing stands with an urgent need for FCT. Then, a two-phase financial analysis consisting of stand-level optimization (private forest owners) and profitability assessment (contractor) was conducted in order to find out whether there would be simultaneous economic incentives for both participants of FCT. The stand-level optimization revealed the financially best management options for a private forest owner, and then, for a contractor, the profitability assessment exposed the profit (or loss) associated with the particular management option. In brief, our results demonstrated that conducting either an industrial wood thinning (1) or an integrated procurement (2) resulted in a positive economic incentive for both the private forest owner and the contractor in all six cases (stands). Further, applying energy wood thinning with delimbed stems (3) would even generate a financial loss for the contractor, given the roadside prices applied in this study

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