Section: New Results

Material flows of the French forest-wood supply chain

The methodology developed in Courtonne et al. [12] on the case of the cereal supply chain was adapted to the French forest-wood supply chain in collaboration with the Laboratoire d'Economie Forestière. Supply chain flows were estimated both at the national and regional scale for wood harvest, addition to stock, production, imports and exports of construction wood, industrial wood and energy wood. These results can be a basis to analyze potential value losses throughout the supply chain, for instance exports of raw materials instead of local transformation. They can also be use to study the competitive use of wood for energy, industry and construction/furnitures, which is a question of growing importance in the context of energy transition.