CONFEMADERA DEVELOP A PLAN OF TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE FOR THE SECTOR OF Aserri

CONFEMADERA DEVELOP A PLAN OF TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE FOR THE SECTOR OF Aserri

The Spanish Confederation of Wood (CONFEMADERA) has developed, with funding from the Ministry of Environment and Rural and Marine Affairs, the project technical assistance plan for the development of a strategic plan sawmill sector SMEs aimed at improving the marketing of its food products in domestic and foreign markets, in order that companies can improve their knowledge of the markets, facilitate the marketing of their products and promote the internationalization of the sector.

Thanks to the development of this structural analysis and competition in the sector provide adequate information to SMEs in the agro-forestry and sawmill Spanish bidders, consisting of 1.

The first stage in the realization of this plan has been searching for information on the situation of the sector in Spain and in Europe, which has contacted various bodies, document searches have been conducted, surveys, etc..

362 companies, about the systems of production of sawn timber in accordance with Community rules on quality, traceability, and environmental, dissemination and awareness of the importance of SMEs in the sector of implementing systems and quality management environmental, and certification.To complete this information collection have conducted interviews with regional business organizations sawmill sector.

In a second phase was carried out a technical review of all information gathered with special emphasis on the applicability to the situation of the sector in Spain, the fruit of which have collected a number of conclusions.

According to the President of the Spanish Confederation of Wood Sawyers and bidders, Juan José Bustos, the food industry based on forest products is now with the abrupt decline in sales and a growing difficulty, so that the development of a structural analysis and competition for SMEs in the sawmill industry is critical to identify strategies for the future.