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Information about Data on the main wood-using sectors in several European countries
The basic statistics , principally supplied by FAO and government institutions, have been further elaborated by Paolo Gardino Consulting Company and provide a fairly accurate evaluation of current activity in the wood-using sector, however we cannot be held responsible for any incorrect information which the data may be found to contain.
Data Base describing the main importers and wood-using industries in Europe, The Middle East and North Africa
The Data Base is an original tool created by Gardino Consulting Company following years of market research. All data have been checked through phone and field interviews, however they may contain some inaccuracies(companies, people, phone numbers, etc. change over the years).
If a customer who has bought records from the Data Base finds substantial errors in the information provided, Gardino Consulting formally guarantees that it will either correct the mistake or supply new equivalent information.
The following criteria will help you find the companies that interest you:
| 1 – Column 1: | Country | ||
| 2 – Column 2: | Size of the company | Size 1 | Annual sales up to 2,4 million |
| Size 2 | Annual sales between 2,5 and 4,9 million | ||
| Size 3 | Annual sales between 5 and 24,9 million | ||
| Size 4 | Annual sales between 25 and 49.9 million | ||
| Size 5 | Annual sales over 50 million | ||
| 3 – Column 3: | The company’s line of business (sector): |
Many companies have several different activities (e.g. doors and joinery, or importer/merchant and mouldings/wall panelling). Therefore the same company may be found more than once using the (search engine??) browser to search different sectors of activity.
These are the sectors of activity listed in the Data Base:
| Agent: | sales agents of foreign companies for selling into the analysed country |
| Association | |
| Bathrooms | |
| Barrels | |
| Bedrooms | |
| Blockboard | |
| Boxes / Cases | |
| Brushes | |
| Building co. | |
| Building materials | In many countries this partly coincides with: importer/merchant |
| Cabinet doors | |
| Chairs | |
| Chemical products | |
| Chipboard | |
| Coffins | |
| Components: | This includes many different activities of industries that make components for other industries (furniture, doors, etc.) |
| Concrete forming: | This includes industries manufacturing wood panels for concrete forming |
| Consulting | |
| Countrystyle furniture | |
| Die cutting | |
| Diplomatic office | |
| Do-it-yourself: | This usually indicates companies that retail to private buyers. In some countries the difference between these and retailers who sell to industries is very small. |
| Doors: | Both outside and inside doors |
| Dowels / sweeps | |
| Drawers | |
| Edge-glued panels: | 1 and more layers, softwood and hardwood |
| Engineering co. | |
| Exporter | |
| Flooring | |
| Forwarding agent | |
| Furniture | |
| Furniture accessories: | this includes a broad number of activities, sometimes partly coinciding with producers of components for furniture industries |
| Furniture mouldings: | often these companies produce also “components” and/or “cabinet doors” |
| Garden furniture | |
| Gluelam beams | |
| Gluelam components: | this includes companies producing multi-layer windows and door scantlings, and also producers of finger jointed components |
| Handles | |
| Hardboard | |
| Household items | this includes any company trading wood products, of any size |
| Importer / merchant: | |
| Joinery | this includes industries making windows, but often also doors or bespoke joinery |
| Kitchen cabinets | |
| Laminates | |
| Living-rooms | |
| Machinery | |
| MDF | |
| Mouldings / wall panelling: | this includes companies doing any sort of profiles, planed goods, tongue and groove items etc. |
| Moulds | |
| Oars | |
| Office furniture | |
| OSB | |
| Other activities | |
| Overlays | |
| Packaging: | this includes all types of heavy industrial packaging |
| Pallets | |
| Panels: | this includes companies producing other wood panels, or overlaying them, or cutting-to-size, etc. |
| Panels trade: | includes traders exclusively (or almost exclusively) of wood panels |
| Paper | |
| Picture frames: | factories producing picture frames |
| Plywood | |
| Prefab houses | |
| Roofs | this includes roof manufacturers, but also many other activities of carpentry |
| Sawmills | |
| Ship furniture | |
| Shopfitting | |
| Shutters / blinds: | many companies listed here produce also other joinery works |
| Skirtings / architraves: | many companies listed here are also included in the “mouldings/wall panelling” sector |
| Staircases | |
| Traditional furniture | |
| Trucks / containers | this includes companies using wood products for manufacturing parts of trucks or containers |
| Upholstered furniture | |
| Veneer | |
| Varnish / glue | |
| Wooden toys |
| 4 – Column 4: | Principal wood products used. |
This field lists the main wood products used and purchased by the company, not its production. Therefore if you find that a door manufacturer uses “doors” this means that it also buys doors from other sources.
These are the wood products described in the Data Base:
| - | Nordic spruce |
| - | Nordic pine |
| - | Domestic and/or Central European softwood |
| - | North American softwood |
| - | American hardwood |
| - | European hardwood |
| - | African hardwood |
| - | Asian hardwood |
| - | South American hardwood and/or softwood |
| - | Plywood |
| - | Veneer |
| - | Edge glued panels |
| - | Glue-lam and finger jointed components |
| - | MDF |
| - | Chipboard |
| - | Mouldings |
| - | Doors |
| - | Floors |
| - | Other products |
5 - How to select one or more companies
Click on a country (the Data Base accepts also multiple researches, e.g. 2/3 countries), on the line of business, on the wood products used and, if required, also the preferred size (large, medium or smaller companies), and then click on “search”.
The display will show how many companies have the required data, and i it will also display an additional column to further facilitate the final choice of the suitable company or companies. The new column (column 5) will indicate the main used wood species. These are not necessarily identical to the used wood species. The wood species are those included within fields such as “European softwood, hardwoods, plywood, veneer” which can include many different species. Therefore the “wood product” “European softwood” can include species such as spruce, scots pine, maritime pine, radiata pine, larch and several others. The “wood product” “European hardwood” can include species such as beech, oak, cherry and many others.
Column 5 is an additional help towards a final selection of suitable companies, but the main means of selecting a company or companies remains the “main wood products used” column.
Below is an example of how one company will appear after a successful search:
