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Time to agree
November 13, 2020 | Author: Panu Anttila | Categories: Blog
November 13, 2020. – In late autumn, companies usually plan the new fiscal year. For sales people it is also a time to renew plywood supply contracts. The main elements

OSB vs. plywood
November 6, 2020 | Author: Panu Anttila | Categories: Blog
November 6, 2020. – Traditionally, OSB (oriented strand board) and softwood plywood have been compared to each other in many use cases. The more frequent storms and hurricanes have increased

Can plywood make cars lighter?
October 30, 2020 | Author: Panu Anttila | Categories: Blog
October 30, 2020. – Transportation vehicles are up for huge changes as cars are being electrified and automated. Perhaps one day we can read the newspaper while the car takes

A newborn composite
October 23, 2020 | Author: Panu Anttila | Categories: Blog
October 23, 2020. – It is tough to innovate and develop new products. As plywood is considered a mature product, it is easy to believe that everything around it has

Factors of production in plywood
October 16, 2020 | Author: Panu Anttila | Categories: Blog
October 16, 2020. – In economics the factors of production are the things needed to produce output, like plywood. The three basic factors of production are land, labour and capital.

What goes down will go up. But when?
October 9, 2020 | Author: Panu Anttila | Categories: Blog
October 9, 2020. – Based on the National Bureau of Economic Research there were 33 business cycles in the United States between 1854 and 2009. The average growing economy lasts

Three months to go
October 1, 2020 | Author: Panu Anttila | Categories: Blog
October 2, 2020. – In three months we’ll have a new year on our hands. Before that we should have an agreed Brexit, undisputed presidential election in the USA, and

Is business more sustainable than plywood?
September 24, 2020 | Author: Panu Anttila | Categories: Blog
September 25, 2020. – Plywood is a global business. It is no news that the panels sail the seven seas of the world. But still today, so do the logs.

Short term or long term?
September 18, 2020 | Author: Panu Anttila | Categories: Blog
September 18, 2020. – When it gets hard to reach your monthly targets, it gets difficult to plan your business in the long term. You fall into a protective mode