Logs of plantation woods against global economic crisis
Tropical timber are well known to the markets caused of it were sold, have superior and consistent handling, strength and appearance characteristics. For plywood or block board, some species are preferred, such as okoume’ ( Aucoumea klaineana ) of Africa, most of all meranti ( Shorea sp ) in Southeast Asia and virola ( Virola sp ) in South America . The extensive of exploitation to these species in Asia, Africa and Latin America affected the existing of these being rare. Consequently price of items which use the tropical timber as raw material increase gradually. Facing Global economic crisis Nowadays in many countries global economic crisis’s has yet to fully impact all sectors of the log and lumber industries. However, lower growth forecasts for an economy in developed countries is certain to slow manufacturing and sales of furniture, which will impact demand for tropical timber. There has already been a downturn in sales of board products in Europe , due to pr...