An analysis of small and medium-sized forest products enterprises in Turkey based on production, capacity usage, machine park and technology

With this work, it is aimed to put forward the present situation about "production, capacity usage, machine park and technology" and to define the problems of the actuations of the forest products industry which is included in the scope of small and medium-sized enterprises (SME) in Duzce (an important place in terms of actuating the forest products industry in Turkey). For this aim, face-to-face questionnaires were administered to 43 SMEs in the forest products industry in Duzce. Data obtained revealed the problems of the SMEs and it was found that the basis of their problems was insufficient finance.