2012 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Investigating the social roles of "retail" sawmilling
| Project/Area Number |
22730220
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Research Field |
Applied economics
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| Research Institution | Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute |
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Principal Investigator |
SHIMASE Takuya 独立行政法人森林総合研究所, 北海道支所, 主任研究員 (80353720)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2010 – 2012
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| Keywords | 経済事情 / 経済政策 / 農林水産物 / 中小企業 / 産業組織 |
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| Research Abstract |
Retail sawmilling is commonly seen in small- and medium-sized sawmillers, and is characterized by orientation to the local market, small production lots for multiple products, and direct sales to small local builders. Retail sawmilling is spread nationwide and plays an important role in the local society/economy through enhancing the function of the house-building-materials supply chain by supplementing market defects and insufficiencies. However, in the 1990s, large-scale house builders and machine-precutters began to expand their businesses to the local market. This helped create a well-developed lumber distribution system and put pressure on the existing local system. The number of small sawmills decreased dramatically, and at the same time, many began supplying to distant lumber distributors instead of small local builders.
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