Panel industries in Croatia and the new products in the world

Croatia has sufficient good quality wood as a raw material for the production of veneer and wood boards for it's own needs and for export. Even though wood as a raw material which renews itself and the forestry is managed on the principle of sustained yield, this raw material has become relatively more expensive and of lower quality. The forestry production could not follow the rate of increase of the planet population, and because of the high standard there has been an increase in wood consumption. More over, Croatia has an extra pressure from the developed countries of west Europe for wood as a raw material. The basic idea, from which we start, is to take into consideration and to carry out an active politics of the exploatation of wood as a raw material as well as the development of the wood industry. Though Croatia is not a leading country either in raw material or in the production of wood-based boards and other semi-raw materials, we can suggest and develop new types of wood based materials. The reason is that we know the trends in the world and on the other hand the need of the domestic market in the situation of reconstructing Croatia.