First Timber Industry Awards Launched
Gilbert Boyefio
27/09/2008
The first ever timber industry awards aimed at honouring the major key players in the industry and other stakeholders who have contributed to the growth and development of the trade, has been launched in Accra.
According to the Forestry Commission of Ghana, the concept of the award had been on the drawing board for sometime now, until its launch yesterday.
The theme for the timber industry awards is "100 Years of Forestry, Projecting Excellence in a Complex and Challenging Industry." It will take place on November 29 at the Golden Tulip Hotel, Kumasi.
The categories of the awards for deserving institutions and individuals are best exporter in lumber, best exporter in veneers, best exporter in plywood, best exporter in moldings, best exporter in furniture parts and best exporter in LUS Products.
The others are best logs producer, best supplier to the domestic market, most integrated company, most innovative company and best bank (banking services). The rest are best shipping company, best buyer for tertiary products, individual and institutional honours and over all best exporter.For each of the awards, criteria have been set out to enable the panel to come out with the right choices.
Speaking at the press launch, Alhaji Alhassan N Attah, Executive Director of the Timber Industry Development Division of the Forestry Commission, said despite the many challenges confronting the Forestry Commission in pursuit of its assigned responsibilities, the forestry industry had stayed as a major foreign exchange earner and a source of employment in the economy over the last century, with figures rising and averaging around 180 million US dollars annually.
He noted that similarly, some individuals within and outside the forestry sector as well as institutions of training and research, deserve adequate mention for the contributions they had made towards the development and growth of the industry.
He observed that the awards would therefore, provide the perfect platform for the Forestry Commission to honour all the key stakeholders who had shown commitment to quality and outstanding leadership in the industry.
In a speech read on her behalf, the Minister for Lands, Forestry and Mines, Esther Obeng Dappah, noted that government over the last seven years had created an enabling environment for businesses in the country to grow.
She said this was reflected in the number of companies that had invested in processing in the tertiary sector, particularly in the production and exports of machined wood products and moldings.
She disclosed that as part of measures to secure the raw material base for the timber industry, government had intensified its plantations development programme through the implementation of the National Forest Plantation Development Programme, which seeks to fill the timber supply and demand gap in Ghana, while restoring the degraded forest areas in line with Ghana's land use policy.
27/09/2008
The first ever timber industry awards aimed at honouring the major key players in the industry and other stakeholders who have contributed to the growth and development of the trade, has been launched in Accra.
According to the Forestry Commission of Ghana, the concept of the award had been on the drawing board for sometime now, until its launch yesterday.
The theme for the timber industry awards is "100 Years of Forestry, Projecting Excellence in a Complex and Challenging Industry." It will take place on November 29 at the Golden Tulip Hotel, Kumasi.
The categories of the awards for deserving institutions and individuals are best exporter in lumber, best exporter in veneers, best exporter in plywood, best exporter in moldings, best exporter in furniture parts and best exporter in LUS Products.
The others are best logs producer, best supplier to the domestic market, most integrated company, most innovative company and best bank (banking services). The rest are best shipping company, best buyer for tertiary products, individual and institutional honours and over all best exporter.For each of the awards, criteria have been set out to enable the panel to come out with the right choices.
Speaking at the press launch, Alhaji Alhassan N Attah, Executive Director of the Timber Industry Development Division of the Forestry Commission, said despite the many challenges confronting the Forestry Commission in pursuit of its assigned responsibilities, the forestry industry had stayed as a major foreign exchange earner and a source of employment in the economy over the last century, with figures rising and averaging around 180 million US dollars annually.
He noted that similarly, some individuals within and outside the forestry sector as well as institutions of training and research, deserve adequate mention for the contributions they had made towards the development and growth of the industry.
He observed that the awards would therefore, provide the perfect platform for the Forestry Commission to honour all the key stakeholders who had shown commitment to quality and outstanding leadership in the industry.
In a speech read on her behalf, the Minister for Lands, Forestry and Mines, Esther Obeng Dappah, noted that government over the last seven years had created an enabling environment for businesses in the country to grow.
She said this was reflected in the number of companies that had invested in processing in the tertiary sector, particularly in the production and exports of machined wood products and moldings.
She disclosed that as part of measures to secure the raw material base for the timber industry, government had intensified its plantations development programme through the implementation of the National Forest Plantation Development Programme, which seeks to fill the timber supply and demand gap in Ghana, while restoring the degraded forest areas in line with Ghana's land use policy.
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