Capacity: Maximum possible production given current facilities.
Chemical Wood Pulp: Includes kraft and soda and sulphite wood pulp, except dissolving grade, bleached, semi-bleached, and unbleached.
Consumed Commodity: A commodity for which demand is represented by a demand equation, giving quantity as a function of price.
Consumption: Production plus imports minus exports.
Demand Region: A region in which consumption of a commodity is modelled by a demand equation, giving quantity as a function of price.
Elasticity: Percentage change in one variable (e.g., demand) due to a 1% change in another (e.g. price), other things being equal.
Fibreboard: A panel manufactured from fibres of wood or other ligno-cellulosic material.
Fuelwood: Includes charcoal; wood in the rough to be used as fuel for purposes such as cooking, heating an power production.
GDP: Gross domestic product at purchaser value is the sum of GDP at factor cost and indirect taxes, less subsidies.
Industrial Roundwood: All industrial wood in the rough except other industrial roundwood; includes sawlogs, veneer logs, and pulpwood.
Input Mix: A specific combination of inputs and cost used to produce a commodity.
Manufacturing Coefficient (or Input-Output Coefficient): The amount of an input commodity required to produce an output commodity.
Manufactured Commodity (or Output Commodity): A commodity production of which is modelled as a process.
Manufacturing Cost: The cost of a process in manufacturing a commodity, excluding the cost of input commodities explicitly recognized in the model.
Manufacturing Region: The region in which the production of a commodity, and the corresponding consumption of required input commodities, are modelled as a process.
Mechanical Wood Pulp: Wood pulp obtained by grinding or milling wood into fibre.
Newsprint: Uncoated paper, unsized, containing at least 60% mechanical wood pulp, usually weight between 40 g/m2 and 60 g/m2.
Other Fibre Pulp: Pulp of fibrous vegetable materials other than wood, including straw, bamboo, bagasse, esparto, other reeds, grasses, cotton, etc.
Other Industrial Roundwood: Roundwood used for tanning, distillation, match blocks, gazogenes, poles, pilings, posts, pitprops, etc.
Other Paper and Paperboard: Includes construction paper and paperboard, household and sanitary paper, special thin paper, wrapping paper and packaging paper and paperboard.
Particle Board: A panel manufactured from small pieces of wood or other ligno-cellulosic materials.
Plywood: A panel made of glued veneer sheets, includes also core plywood, blockboard, laminboard, and battenboard.
Primary Raw Material: An input commodity the supply of which is modelled by a supply equation, giving quantity demanded as a function of price.
Printing and Writing Paper: Suitable for printing and business purposes, writing, sketching, drawing, etc., excludes newsprint.
Process: A technology for producing an output commodity, represented by the manufacturing coefficients and the corresponding manufacturing costs.
Recovery Rate: The ratio of waste paper collected to total paper consumption.
Region: A country in each regional model, or a region (e.g. Africa) in the world model.
Sawnwood: Sawnwood and railroad sleepers.
Shadow Price (of capacity): The marginal value of one additional unit of capacity.
Supply Region: A region in which the production of a commodity is modelled by a supply function, giving quantity supplied as a function of price.
Veneer Sheets: A thin sheet of wood of uniform thickness for use in plywood, laminated construction, furniture, etc.
Waste Paper: Recycled paper and paperboard.