Present and future wood consumption for Plywood industry in Pakistan
Present and future wood consumption for Plywood industry in Pakistan
Saliheen Khan and M. I. Sheikh
ABSTRACT
When Pakistan was created in 1947 hardly any plywood
industry existed. An effort was made to develop this
particular end use only as late as 1960. Currently ten
units are working in different parts of the country. Out
of these seven units are running below their installed
capacity due to availability of suitable raw material
in required quantity. The required data could not be had
from the other three units as the owners were not
prepared to give requisite information. The surveyed
units are producing 428,000 sq.meter of plywood annually.
The production cost per sq. meter is Rs.45 and the whole
sale selling price is Rs. 50 leaving a very nominal profit margin of Rs. 5 per sq.m. The current annual
consumption of wood is around 70,000m3; the projected
demand of round-wood for the years 1990, 1995and 2000 is
107,000,144,000and 180,000m3 respectively.
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September 1986
Vol. 36, Iss. 3
