Abstract
Wood belongs among the renewable, ecological resources used in many variants of primary and secondary production. The efficiency and effectiveness of using wood resources is, therefore, one of the important factors of sustainable economic development of the society. Each country should strive to maximise the efficiency and effectiveness of the use of raw materials. The aim of the paper is to evaluate the different levels of timber use in international comparison based on the available information of timber resources, production, consumption, import and export in the primary processing in natural and value expressions of wood resources. The results indicate the efficiency of the use of wood resources both for the volume of the total woodworking production and the production value of the woodworking industry in the selected countries.
 Keywords: Wood sources, efficiency, added value, comparative analysis.
Highlights
The solution of further development of wood processing, and thereby the reduction of a rate of raw wood export is in the increase of capacity, and in the search for the optimal arrangement of the processing structure taking into account the current possibilities and the state of processing
The established structure of the processing enables to identify the efficiency of the wood resources over the current processing base, which characterises the economic potential of the individual branches of primary processing in relation to the timber resources
It points to the great differences between individual countries and, especially for the countries with a high proportion of timber exports; it is a challenge for increasing overall efficiency
Summary
The solution of further development of wood processing, and thereby the reduction of a rate of raw wood export is in the increase of capacity, and in the search for the optimal arrangement of the processing structure taking into account the current possibilities and the state of processing. The material balance of resources and their consumption is a problem of capacity arrangement and the search for optimal adjustment towards some key performance characteristics, such as total production volume, wood input maximisation and processing cascade producing as much raw material as possible for subsequent processing with additional value added. The established structure of the processing enables to identify the efficiency of the wood resources over the current processing base, which characterises the economic potential of the individual branches of primary processing in relation to the timber resources. It can be seen that even countries depending on timber imports can produce wood-based products very efficiently, with a high value added
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