Sawmill Capacity versus Production (Figure 17)City or Region Company Name Roundwood Maximum Average Annualentering mill Installed Volume of(m 3 /year) Capacity (m 3 ) Sawnwood(m 3 /year)Aserradero El Cristo 24,000 11,000 8,800Aser. Angostura 2000 3,000 3,120 2,400Aser. San Miguel C.A. 3,000 7,200 3,600Aser. Orinoco Industrial S.A. 8,000 7,200 3,000Ciudad Bolívar 38,000 28,520 17,800Promaca 5,000 8,820 1,800Aserradero Sta. María 1,500 12,000 1,800Aserradero Imataca C.A. 2,160 8,225 2,350MADERORCA. Maderas Orin. 5,000 12,000 7,200E.W.E. 1,728 2,160 1,680Ciudad Guayana 15,388 43,205 14,380Elaboración de Maderas Bosco C.A. 20,000 8,000 1,470Maderas T.B.C.A. (Todisco Buck) 800 2,880 1,680Aserradero Tumorronay 400 4,800 2,400Maderas Gredo C.A. 2,000 4,800 2,400Aserradero COVEMAT 6,000 7,200 3,600Guayana Wood Company 2,400 5,000 2,100Guasipati andTumeremo 31,600 32,680 13,650Asseraderos Hnos. Hernández 1,300 5, 280 5,040DIMASURCA (Distrib. 2,000 2,000 4,800de Maderas del Sur)Aserradero Adriático C.A. 2,640 2,160Aserradero Yocoima 18,000 25,000 22,000Aserradero Matamoros 15,000 15,000 3,750Santa Rosa 7,000 8,400 2,400Maderas Industriales 3,228 9,400 3,525Upata 46,528 67,720 43,675El Manteco Aserradero El Manteco C.A. 12,000 20,000 4,000Tucupita Aserradero Santa Inés 1,000 2,000 1,500TOTAL 144,516 194,125 95,455104
Table Sources:• Concession management plans (Planes de ordenación y manejo forestal)• Concession contracts• Concession annual cutting plans• Annual cutting reports• Authorization communications• Site visits to a select number of concessions (Hermanos Hernández sawmill, Yocoima sawmill)• Interviews with official company representatives and with the Ministry of Environment, as wellas with forestry experts• Questionnaire of sawmill operators, filled out with the help of the director of each sawmillSources for Maps 8-10:• MARNR/SEFORVEN, Unidades de Manejo de la Reserva Forestal Imataca y Lote Boscoso San Pedro(Caracas, Venezuela: MARNR, 1987). Scale: 1:500,000.• Comisión Estatal de Ordenación del Territorio del Estado Bolívar, Áreas destinadas a producción forestalpermanente, based on national cartography and SEFORVEN, 2000.• Comisión Estatal de Ordenación del Territorio del Estado Bolívar, Propuesta Asignación de Uso del EstadoBolívar (Ciudad Bolívar, Venezuela: IAMOT, 1999).Technical Notes:• All production volumes are expressed in official cubic meters, derived through a formula established by theMinistry of Environment:V-MARN=0.605 * D 2 * L, whereV-MARN=the volume in m 3 ; 0.605=conversion constant; D=cutting diameter at breast height in meters;L=commercial height in meters.• To estimate roundwood volume, ministry officials multiply V-MARN by a co-efficient of 0.55.• In addition, in some annual cutting plans, the roundwood volume is estimated through the Paragua formulafor standing timber, the result of which is a lower volume than that obtained using the MARN roundwoodformula.• Compartments are the operational unit of cutting plans. In general, a concession is divided in compartmentsof varying sizes, depending on the number of years of the contract.• Harvesting in one compartment can begin during one annual cutting cycle and end 1-3 years later. For thisreason, volumes extracted from one compartment do not always correspond to the calendar year indicated inthe cutting plan, resulting in confusion in annual production records.• Actual volume cut and number of trees harvested are most likely an underestimate, due to the lack of data forsome years and concessions. Total production is likely to be higher than that reflected in the above tables.Methodology:• Management plans, annual cutting plans, and other company documents were reviewed to compile datareflected in the above tables. The list of reviewed documents includes 122 titles.• Data on sawmills were compiled from interviews with official company representatives for each sawmill andwith the Ministry of Environment and forestry experts.• Logging concessions maps were derived from the original decree allocating each concession.• The boundaries of the Imataca Forest Reserve and surrounding forest lots were adjusted according to expertopinion to fit the boundaries of the logging concessions.105
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