Numerous clients have trusted our firm for its expertise in Forest Products Zins Beauchesne and Associates is known all over Québec and abroad for its specialized expertise in forest products. In fact, Zins Beauchesne and Associates has 25 years of experience working on a wide variety of strategic mandates to support agencies and businesses that make up the productive system of the forest industry. Specific areas of expertise: - Domestic and international market studies
- Niche market analyses
- Feasibility studies
- Opportunity studies
- New concept and product testing
- Strategic plans
- Marketing plans
- Export strategies
- Business plans
Zins Beauchesne and Associates has carried out many mandates for a broad spectrum of clients in the forest products sector: - 1st, 2nd and 3rd wood processing businesses for mandates related to developing specialty as well as engineered products:
Many strategic planning, opportunity studies, feasibility studies, market studies, marketing plans and business plan mandates for the following types of products and clients. - Products:
- Engineered wood products
- Hardwood lumber
- Softwood lumber
- Treated wood (ACQ, borate, high-temperature)
- Prefabricated components
- Renewable green energy (logs, granules, cogeneration)
- Prefabricated houses
- Composite materials
- Construction products
- Furniture and furniture components
- Prefabricated walls
- Engineered panels (OSB, MDF, HDF, OSL, particles, composites)
- Veneers and specialty plywoods
- Appearance products
- Hardwood flooring
- R&D and technology transfer centres for the development of a CCTT (collegial centres of technology transfer), city cells launches, a program evaluation, etc.:
- Business plan - recognition application for a CCTT on the boreal forest
- Assessment of the Partenariat Innovation Forêt (PIF) project
- Educational and labour training institutions and industry committees for a needs analysis of forestry businesses, the implementation of training programs, etc.:
- Survey of the industry and workers on training programs for the timber industry
- Profile and issues of Québec’s kitchen cupboards industry
- Agencies that develop and manage infrastructure networks for the development of the industry, the formulation of strategic development plans for industrial parks, the development of industrial services, etc.:
- Strategic development plan of Haut-Saint-Maurice wood systems
- Feasibility study for a centre that sorts and appraises unexploited hardwood on the North Coast of the St-Lawrence River
- Government departments, economic development agencies and risk capital financing agencies for the development of strategic plans, conducting new business feasibility studies and industry studies, etc.:
- Development of a presentation document and a strategic development plan for the mixed forest niche as part of the ACCORD Laurentides project
- Development of prefabricated house export scenarios for the UK market
- Forestry businesses such as forestry groups and cooperatives for the development of strategic analyses and plans, diversification project feasibility studies, etc.:
- Strategic development analyses and plans
- Market feasibility study for ginseng growing under shade houses
- Equipment manufacturers for market studies on new forestry and wood processing equipment:
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