Retention
of Most Competitive Timber Firms in the Business
Over-capacity
has been a daunting problem in the sector. Shortage
of raw material has always been on the priority
list of industry problems. Competitive bidding
provides an objective and politically less
costly means of gradually rightsizing the industry. The
confidence in the rightsizing induced by the
competitive bidding process is that the most
efficient and competitive firms have the best
of chance of surviving.
