Plywood mills have been changing their productive structure worldwide. These changes have also been taking place in Paraná's industries. The impacts are measure in this article by production efficiency indicators for two periods: March to July 2002 and March to May 2007. The analyses allowed the conclusions that: only plywood mills that produced plywood using pinewood for exportation are better adapted to globalization. The other plywood mills made products traded in the national market and did not increase their productions, improved or updated production systems. Production indicators can therefore be used to compare manufacturers or plan public or private actions.
Forest economy; Operations management; Forest sector
