Northern Research Station

Title: Variations in productivity and performance in grade lumber industries in Kentucky, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia-1982

Author: Dempsey, Gilbert P.

Date: 1987

Source: NE-RP-604. Broomall, PA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Northeastern Forest Experiment Station. 18 p.

Station ID: RP-NE-604

Description: Sawmill effectiveness is crucial to the growth and development of wood industries among locales, states, regions, and countries. Productivity ratios, structural factors, and other indicators of economic performance were used to measure the relative productive efficiency of the grade hardwood lumber industries in Kentucky, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia. Despite undercapitalization, the industries' latent capacity and efficiency potential provide the base and make the prospect for socially desirable economic development a highly viable option in all three states.

Keywords: economics (forest products industries); sawmills; hardwoods; productivity; performance; development

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Dempsey, Gilbert P.  1987.  Variations in productivity and performance in grade lumber industries in Kentucky, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia-1982.   NE-RP-604. Broomall, PA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Northeastern Forest Experiment Station. 18 p..