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JOHN J. GARDINER profit in its twelve years in existence and which in 1978 recorded losses amounting to £2.7 million on a production of 60,000 tonnes of pulp (9). On the other hand the importance of sulphate pulp has grown rapidly over the past decade and it seems likely to retain its position as the most important pulp grade in paper making. The future growth rate in consumption of paper making pulp is expected to slow to about 1.5% per annum, but a substantial deficit of world pulp and paper is predicted by the mid-1980s (8). Possibly, in anticipation of this situation, one of the major Swedish pulp producers has raised the price of its pulp to European paper producers by £70 per tonne since 1977, to bring the price of chemical pulp to £238/tonne in 1979. On the market side it is worthy of note that Britain currently imports 90% of its wood pulp requirements, while Italy imports 95% and Holland 96% (9). IMPLICATIONS FOR THE MARKETING OF IRISH FOREST PRODUCE From this brief review it is clear that the European market for some forest products is still expanding and that Britain in particular is a large scale importer of these materials. At the same time freight charges often account for a high percentage of the value l of these products and since the majority of processed wood goods available in the U.K. come from non-EEC countries, they are subject to import duty. Thus, exports of processed wood goods to the U.K. from Ireland would be likely to have a competitive edge of between 15%-35% on the British market, vis-a-vis existing suppliers (7). Britain will this year (1979) have an adverse trade balance in wood goods well in excess of £2,000 million, and the EEC region will have a similar negative trade balance of approximately £13,500 million. By 1990 we will have over 1,000,000m 3 of smallwood and wood residues available for processing (1). From this raw material we may be manufacturing any or a mixture of products as follows: 434,000 tonnes of thermomechanical pulp. OR 200,000 tonnes of chemical pulp. OR 714,OOOm 3 0fparticleboard. OR 200,000 tonnes of thermomechanical pulp + 300,OOOm 3 of particleboard. I Including cost of insurance and freight.
MARKETS FOR IRISH WOOD 29 By current world production levels these quantities of materials would not have any marked impact on world trade. For instance, the world production of mechanical and chemical pulps is about 30 million tonnes and 77 million tonnes respectively (11). In view of the market situation as outlined in this paper it is tempting to assume that it will be easy to sell these Irish wood products abroad. However, the closure of some of our processing plants and the difficulties which others have experienced must alert the forestry industry to the fact that small individual processing units cannot compete with multi-national integrated complexes especially during periods of trade recession or oversupply. Since prices are fixed by these multiproduct concerns it is clear that they can accommodate ailing sectors of their operations during periods of difficult trading conditions, without unduly affecting their overall profitability. Thus to make an impact on the available markets the industry in Ireland Must have available to it modern, fully integrated, export oriented industrial capacity, located near the timber supply. Given this kind of processing facility there appears to be ccnsiderable scope for innovation in the wood processing sectors and a considerable opportunity not only to utilise our smallwood supply but also to add substantially to its value. REFERENCES Anon 1979 Irish Forest Policy. Report of National Economic and Social Council. Stationery Office. Dublin. 2 Anon 1979 Rise of the Irish Chipboard Industry. Wood Based Panels. International Edition of Timber Trades Journal, November 1979. 3 Anon 1979 U.K. Particleboard Consumption Rises. TimberTradesJournal, 10th November 1979. 4 Francis, J. G. 1980 Personal Communication. 5 Anon 1979 Report of 10th Annual Conference of Association of Professional Foresters of Great Britain. Forestry and British Timber, July 1979. 6 Wadsworth, J. 1979 Investment is the Key to Increased Market Share. Paper read at Fibre Building Board Firms, Conference, Leicester 1979. 7 Anon 1979 Fibre Building Board Trade Awaits For 1980 Prices. Timber Trades Journal, 27th October 1979. 8 Francis, G. J. 1979 Future Use of British Timber. Scottish Forestry, Vol. 33 , No.4, 258-65. 9 Anon 1979 Scotish Forestry Commentary. Forestry and British Timber, June 1979.
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