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Maintaining Competitiveness through Employee Ownership in the Forest Products Industry – Manual and Webinar
The goal of this manual and associated webinar is to explore the basic structure, opportunities, and challenges of the Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP) and it application within the Forest products industry.
DRYFEAS Program and DRYFEAS - Lumber Kiln Drying
Operation Financial Feasibility User's Manual
This manual provides an overview and discussion of the
"DRYFEAS" spreadsheet program and a step-by-step
explanation of data entry to use the program for your own
analyses. The DRYFEAS spreadsheet model allows the user to
conduct preliminary financial feasibility analysis in the
developmental planning of new dry kiln operations and for
preliminary financial analyses related to the operation or
acquisition of existing dry kiln operations.
SAWFEAS Program and SAWFEAS - Sawmill Financial
Feasibility User's Manual
This manual provides an overview and discussion of the
"SAWFEAS" spreadsheet program and a step-by-step
explanation of data entry to use the program for your own
analyses. The SAWFEAS spreadsheet model allows the user to
conduct preliminary financial feasibility analysis in the
developmental planning of new sawmill operations and for
preliminary financial analyses related to the acquisition of
existing sawmill operations.
PROYIELD Program and PROYIELD - Sawmill Yield Analysis
User's Manual
This manual provides an overview and discussion of the
"PROYIELD" spreadsheet program and a step-by-step
explanation of data entry to use the program for your own
analyses. The PROYIELD model allows the user to project yields
of lumber products and residuals generated in sawing
individual logs and for user-defined log sample distributions,
with user defined log, process and product assumptions. This
data may be used in various types of analyses and projections
including for data entry into the SAWFEAS Sawmill Financial
Feasibility Analysis model.
GRADEYIELD Program and GRADEYIELD - Lumber Grade & Yield
Studies for Analysis of Sawmill Profit-Potential
This manual provides an overview and discussion of the
"GRADEYIELD" spreadsheet program. Since the
relatively short and simple spreadsheet program includes a
step-by-step explanation of data entry to use the program
itself, the manual primarily focuses on how to go about
conducting hardwood lumber grade/yield recovery studies and
on how to use of the GRADEYIELD spreadsheet program to
perform analysis of data collected in a hardwood lumber
grade/yield study and interpreting the results.
CORDS Program
The "CORDS" spreadsheet program is used for chip
mill analysis and estimations in cord scaling. It projects
weights, and yields of chip and peeled roundwood products
(and associated raw material costs on the basis of peeled
cords, and chips sold by different conventions). The program
allows for different assumptions regarding wood and bark
volumes, moisture contents, specific gravities, losses in
chipping, etc.. The program allows the user to perform
different analyses using assumptions of stick-scaled or
weight scaled cord inputs. The documented program requires
few entries, assumes a level of background knowledge is
required for reasonable assumptions. Training in the use of
this program has been part of a number of extension
workshops where it has been demonstrated the program is
simple enough and user-friendly to the degree that it can
typically be understood and used by persons having a sound
basic understanding of basic forest products and wood
technology regarding moisture content, specific gravity
etc..
CONVERT Program
The "CONVERT" spreadsheet program provides
conversions between common board foot log rules and
cubic volume, for individual logs (of various diameters
and lengths) and for representative log diameter
distributions. The program requires no entries except
for providing the assumptions for the representative log
diameter and length sample distribution if aggregate
conversion data are desired, consequently it does not
require a manual.
Owning Wisconsin Woodlands
A collection of UWEX forestry publications, the Forestry Facts
series, and other materials developed to assist landowners with the
management of their woodlands. The Forestry Facts series is also
accessible by clicking on Publications below.
Wisconsin Wood Using Industry Directories
Directories of primary and secondary wood using businesses.
Wood Fueled Boiler Financial
Feasibility User's Manual
Manual provides an overview of "Wood Fueled Boiler Financial
Feasibility," a spreadsheet program designed for easy use on a
personal computer. The program provides a starting point for
interested parties to perform financial feasibility analysis of a
steam boiler system for space heating or process heat.
Blue Stain Brochure
Is blue stain coloring your bottom line red? Millions of
dollars are lost every year when logs develop blue stain.
Stained wood results in lower value or rejected wood products.
Understanding blue stain problems will help you maximize the
value of your logs and increase profits, create better
relationships with customers, and contribute to healthy and
sustainable forests in Wisconsin. Learn how to prevent this
wood discoloration.
Status of the
Logging Sector in Wisconsin and Michigan's Upper
Peninsula: Outlines the findings of the first ever
survey of logging firms in Wisconsin an the UP of Michigan,
conducted in 2003. If you would like a hard copy mailed to
you, please contact the Department of Forest & Wildlife Ecology at 608/262-9975. |
