Ninety-seven percent of the mill owners came from outside Amazonia. Of the 238 sawmills present in this study region in late 1989, 79% were installed in the 1980s.
This occurred because of a decline in hardwood stocks in the south of Brazil coupled with the development of good transport, energy, and communications systems in eastern Amazonia.We studied the structure and economy of the wood industry along a 340 km stretch of the Bélem-Brasília Highway in eastern Amazonia. Over the past 20 years the eastern Amazon developed from a logging backwater to the principal hardwood processing center in Brazil. The Brazilian wood industry is highly mobile.
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The future role of portable sawmills may require a co-operative approach that emphasizes low volume value-adding, due to the decreasing supply of logs in North Queensland. An examination of policy issues suggests that there may be a need for new legislation to cover employees, sawn timber consumers and sawmillers themselves. This paper also explores the current and potential role of portable sawmills in the regional small-scale forestry industry. Most sawmillers in north Queensland currently obtain logs mainly from private landholdings and are hesitant to invest in new equipment due to concerns about future log supplies. The most critical issues faced by sawmillers were the lack of resource security and competing products, in particular competition from imported tropical timbers from neighbouring island countries including Papua New Guinea. Using a semi-structured questionnaire and personal interviews, the opinions of 18 operators of portable and fixed-site sawmills were canvassed on a number of issues including main problems faced by the local industry, current sources of timber, sawn timber recovery rates of their operations, willingness to purchase new milling and other equipment, opinions about why (or if) portable sawmills can sell timber at a lower cost than fixed-site mills, and destinations of sawn timber milled. This paper examines the role and use of portable sawmills in north Queensland. PBSOs can be of assistance in addressing small scale forest management needs. Current sawyers indicated a need for education in harvesting and operational practices, value-added techniques, and marketing, with an additional interest in obtaining logs from roadsides. Results of the survey revealed that the majority of sawmill owners are over the age of 60 age and annual income had significant effects on interest in operating a PBSO business, whereas sawmill ownership and income effected possible interest in becoming part of a niche market. A survey of portable band saw mill operators (PBSOs) in Connecticut was conducted to help determine the capacity for PBSOs to assist in addressing the state’s small-scale forest management needs. Corresponding value-added processing for wood products, such as with portable band sawmills, has the potential to foster local markets and utilization of wood products in the small quantities produced. The shrinking average size of Connecticut forested land parcels, as well as increased interest in roadside forest management activities and small-acreage treatments for wildlife habitats, all necessitate scale-appropriate management methodologies for tree harvesting and vegetation management. Potential exists for greater use of portable sawmills, to handle the relatively small volume of hardwood timber available, and reduce log transport and milling costs. It is important to ascertain what role the cabinet timber industry can play in the north Queensland economy and what role, if any portable sawmilling can play in a future timber industry. Additionally, these sawmillers face stiff competition from rainforest timbers of similar characteristics imported from developing countries where legislative requirements and cost of labour are not as onerous as those in Australia. The markets these sawmillers service in turn are often long distances from north Queensland, which leads to high road or rail haulage costs. The potential buyers of hardwood logs are limited to a few small 'family' fixed-site mills and portable sawmillers. In north Queensland the single large-scale processor of logs, Ravenshoe Timbers Pty Ltd, only processes plantation grown softwoods. Thus for landholders harvesting trees the main market for these species is the sawn-timber market.
For a variety of reasons, no market is available for logs for woodchip. The vast majority of the logs come from private land due to the reduction of the resource with the World Heritage listing of the rainforest in 1988. Markets for rainforest cabinet timbers in north Queensland are currently limited.
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