RESTRUCTURING THE ROMANIAN WOOD PROCESSING INDUSTRY

Authors

  • Florin Ioras Buckinghamshire New University
  • David Turnock Geography Department, University of Leicester, Leicester LE1 7RH, U.K
  • Ioan Vasile Abrudan Faculty of Silviculture and Forest Engineering, Transylvania University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.54652/rsf.2006.v36.i1.186

Keywords:

privatisation, regulation, economic development, Eastern Europe, foreign direct investment

Abstract

UDK 630*8:674(498)

The paper provides a summary of restructuring in one of Romania’s basic industries that has seen major changes since 1989 on account of privatisation and the construction of new capacity. Although production has not returned to the levels of the 1980s there has been a major qualitative improvement thanks largely to foreign investment, with of new projects currently underway. While the basic commodities are likely to see further recovery in output, in sympathy with greater felling (after a significant relaxation in the early 1990s), progress of engineered wood products – beyond medium-density fibreboard (MDF) and particleboard or chipboard (PAL – according to the Romanian acronym) – seems less assured, though increasing domestic consumption could provide an incentive. Meanwhile stiff price competition in the paper industry helps to keep production some way behind consumption especially in the case of newspaper. On the other hand, good design and high labour productivity in some sections of the furniture industry is helping to maintain a good export performance while attracting investment from global producers such as Ikea.

References

C.ISTRATESCU, A.SERENY & G.PARNUTA 2001, 'Forest products annual market review 2000-2001: Romania’s forest products markets’, FAO Timber Bulletin 54(3), 21-32;

E.PARNUTA & I.MACHEDON 2000, ‘Forest and environmental legislation in Romania’, Anon ed., Challenges in implementing forest and environmental legislation in European countries with economies in transition (Zurich: ETH) 69-77.

UNECE 2006, Timber Committee: 64th session 3-6 October 2006 http://www.unece. org/trade/timber/mis/

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Published

01. 12. 2006.

How to Cite

Ioras, F. ., Turnock, D. ., & Abrudan, I. V. (2006). RESTRUCTURING THE ROMANIAN WOOD PROCESSING INDUSTRY. Works of the Faculty of Forestry University of Sarajevo, 36(1), 1–18. https://doi.org/10.54652/rsf.2006.v36.i1.186