Markets and Opportunities

The forest-based sector comprises a wide range of products and services which offer specific opportunities. The forest activity in its essence, the wood production, is a business that needs technology for high production and should be treated with great professionalism. Both for the sustainable extraction of native wood and for Planted Forests, understood as agribusiness, the destinations of the materials produced are multiple and always new technologies of use and processing arise what expand even more these opportunities.

The wide use of tropical wood in civil construction, structures and decoration, for frames, floors and general utility, in groups such as furniture, packaging, offset panels, wooden artifacts, toys and shaped parts, gives the forest issue a great possibility of destination of the produced materials, a range of opportunities for turning the wood production into these products with national and global reach.

The Planted Forests in the concept of agribusiness, plant today to harvest tomorrow earning maximum profitability, provides a huge scope in marketing terms that reaches the world market of solid wood, the substantial group of panels, the products of higher added value PMVA, the energy, and also the huge cellulose and paper industry.

Considering the panels group, the highlights are MDF, MDP, MLC, OSB, Offsets, Multilayer Offsets, Blackboard, LVL, Three-ply, Waferboard, Lammyboard, Insulation Board, Hardbord, Fiber Sheets, Wood-Cement Sheets and Agglomerates. The products of Higher Added Value, those wood secondary which are reprocessed and converted into other finished products or semi-finished products of higher value, such as Frames, Floors, Doors, EGP and Blocks & Blanks, offer several business situations for those who produce wood in Planted Forests or with disposition for industrial enterprises. The multimillionaire segment of the paper and cellulose industries develop by large steps in Brazil and abroad and also offer forest business situations with high rate of attractiveness. On the use of wood for energy purposes, since the utilization of forest residues through Charcoal, Briquettes and Pellets even Thermoelectric Power Plants, the business plans in these segments also allow excellent opportunities.

The commitment with the use of energy and the emissions management can also be an opportunity for good businesses. The Environmental Credits Trading that are traded in different emissions worldwide markets as ACX-Change, European Union Allowances, BioCarbon Fund, Chicago Climate Exchange, Nord Pool, European Climate Exchange, Prototype Carbon Fund, BM&F, Kyoto (MDL, Joint Implementation and European Market) and voluntary carbon markets are evolving and reaching new alternatives and values; the projects in these fields of activity allow highly profitable investments, the initiatives of generation of these credits as addiction of values to the projects have on forests and on the biomass utilization an opportunity feasible and interesting.

The forests offer great opportunities for business and the Fenix Consulting & Research counting with their areas of expertise provides what is the best for the meeting of the demands in all matters related to the theme Forestry Assets and Services. Our commitment and of all professionals involved with the markets and opportunities is to develop excellence in the works necessary to the fulfillment of the purposes.