SOPECAM - Recovery and valorization for forest waste and abandoned logs

Start
January 1997
End
December 1997
Project cost
14 000 €
Role in the project
Preparation, management, achievement of a feasibility study

Countries

Cameroon

Fields

Biodiversity Forest

Main goals

Provide technical support for the implementation of an environmental label in a company exporting Cameroonian timber

Specific objectives

Feasibility study for the creation of an eco-label on forest products (pallet wood) - CNCC (National Council of Loaders of Cameroon)

Beneficiaries

SOPEC (Pallet and Packaging Company of Cameroon)

Results

R1. Realization of a mission which analyzed the technical and commercial feasibility conditions of a SOPEC SA "quality-environment" label within the framework of the project "Recovery and valorization of forest waste and abandoned logs for the manufacture of pallets ".
R2. Preparation of a report that reports on all the steps followed for each activity and proposes a label for pallets produced from second quality wood (trees felled but not extracted by foresters due to their too low market value in gross).

Activities

SOPEC has asked Rongead for a feasibility analysis of the SOPEC project "Recovery and valorization of forest waste and abandoned logs" and the establishment of a "quality-environment" label SOPEC, SA. The aim of the SOPEC SA project was to set up an economically and commercially viable pallet production company from abandoned logs that is innovative in terms of sustainable forest management.

A1. Identification and presentation of criteria used by NGOs for the production of labels
A2. Identification of criteria to be selected in the establishment of a label (approval by international NGO, private label or public label etc.)
A3. Establishment of an investment analysis grid / costs to be carried out
A4. Technical and financial feasibility study
A5. Formalization of an action plan