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Group 6 Prefabricated wood component innovation
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Group 6 - Prefabricated wood component
innovation
Group title Pinocchio
Featuring Miika Kajanus
Team members
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innovation
Group Theme Innovations in the field of
woodworking industries, particularly of
semi-finished and finished wood products
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Represented Case Studies
ik Kucevo - Serbia Montenegro
PB group S.P.A - Italy
Rabic Slavko - Slovenia
Lignova Kft. - Hungary
Alseka - Lithuania
Architektur Stöckl Horak Ziviltechniker Gmbh
Austria
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Socially owned company for production and sale
of wooden productsik Kucevo
Production lines
1. Line for the production of plywood 2. Line for
the production of veneer 3. Line for the
production of pressed parts 4. Line for the
production of carpenter's products 5. Line for
the production of lumber 6. Line for the
production of carpentry and frieze 7. Line for
the production of carpenter's products as
agreed - Maleevo
Innovations

• On the basis of projects, technical and
  technological planning has been
• conducted and also equipping of a small
  section (2001), where precious
• lumber, skilfully processed and designed,
  became the final product which
• was sent directly to the market.
• In designing the product, wood of the walnut,
  beech and cherry were used,
• therefore emphasizing the advantages of
  natural materials, and the production
• perfection and the functionality of the final
  products.
• In 2002 ik Kucevo had bought two (CNC)
  milling machine which enable
• writing and drawing various two or
  three-dimensional objects. It is a computer
• guided tools that is used in production of
  doors and wings.

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PB GROUP S.P.A.
Production lines
PB GROUP has five divisions PB FINESTRE produce
wooden windows and shutters mainly directed to a
medium and medium-high
sector of the market PB BUILDING wooden windows
and shutters for the building sector so for a
lower economic band PB
PORTE wooden interior and entrance doors PB
BULK reinforced wooden windows and entrance
doors PB SINTESIS produce aluminium windows,
PVC windows and aluminium shutters.
Innovations
Use of furniture technology applied to the
doors production, New production of aluminium
windows and shutters, New water-based acrylic
painting, Certifications GOST product and firm
certification, quality System Certification
UNI EN ISO 9002 (1995) now substituted by the
VISION 2000 (year 2000), Superlegno Quality
Brand-name. PB Academy division providing to
the continuous forming and updating of the
employees belonging to all the levels, in
collaboration with a forming office of Milan.
New machineries
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Slavko Rabic Family forest enterprise

• Production
• Intensive production of wainscot
• Production of lumber
• Innovation
• Case of vertical innovation process model in
  personal level. Investment in new machine for
  making wainscot in year 2000. Instead of just
  selling the logs, he can now offer the final
  product to his customers. Buying a new machine
  enforced him to renew an old stable for storing
  the wainscot or lumber.

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State owned company for manufactoring and
building of panelled houses Lignova Kft.
Present situation
1. This is the second largest company in Hungary
which produces panelled houses 2. The timber is
imported from Ukraine, or from Romania 3. The
components are manufactured in different
countries (doors, windows, isolation,
plasterboard) from Hungary to Austria 4. It has
private customers and domestic market, and
Austria 5. The company offers work for 6
people 6. Business goals are enlarging the
market, higher profit, having an own market,
keep the employees
Innovations

• In the last 25 years there was almost no
  innovation, except using new materials,
• and some new machines.
• In this year the government offered about 520000
  for this division for the main
• developments.
• From the disposal finances they would innovate
  the next main things
• - technical innovation (software, and hardware
  for constructing the new
• houses, renovation of the present factory
  (heating, social equipments,
• lightning), new machines for wood processing,
  and assembling the
• panels, front - end loader for carrying timber,
  lagging industrial gates,
• developing infrastructure, new buildings,
• innovating the relationship between the other
  companies, founding a
• new federation.

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Joint-Stock Company Alseka Ltd
Production lines

• production of wooden panels
• external doors
• wooden windows

Innovations
During the recent years operating conditions
havent changed, however, enterprise has decided
to be in progress and to enlarge the
productivity. It was decided to acquire modern
wood manufacturing equipment, which is the only
of this kind in Lithuania. It was acquired
Rover 27 machine in Lithuania.
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Architektur Stöckl Horak Ziviltechniker Gmbh
Production
Planning and realization of customer-tailored
resident home constructions


Innovations
Development of an affordable, standardized yet
flexible passive house
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Evaluations (Enterprise and innovations)

• ik Kucevo
• Evaluation of innovation
• High level of computerized machines and the
  quality of the final processing made a great
• influence on raising the working culture and
  technological discipline.
• Introducing a new design, differentiation of
  the products and market interest,
• activated and motivated development and
  inventiveness with great number of
• workers which have been included in this part
  of production.
• Going out on a market and showing these
  products, IK Kucevo
• took a new position on the market and obtained
  buyers from a lot more market
• groups than it had had when dealing only in
  producing and offering building materials
• and half-raw materials.

Impeding factors
- Process of transition in Serbia and Montenegro
- Economic situation
inside country -
Unregulated low in forestry sector Fostering
factors - Wary
easy to get the good quality input.
- Chance to export products to
the large markets (e.g. EU)
- Well trained personal
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Evaluations (Enterprise and innovations)
Italy
PB group S.P.A Evaluation of innovation
Probably the anti-kalashnikov case was the least
incisive one that I could choose among the
others, of course the production of a new kind of
window isnt a radical innovation in the firm but
an incremental one it hasnt brought big
challenges concerning economical incomes or
internal structure. But the interesting aspect is
that PB group could adapt itself and the
production for satisfying a client need and it
could use this occasion for selling a particular
supply with anti-kalashnicov windows and then for
planning a new model of armed window for the
normal market. That demonstrates that the firm is
active with a good potential for innovation.
Fostering and impeding factors regarding the
innovation possibility Fostering every year
7-10 of turnover is destined to innovation and
research of new models and technologies
specialized workers with good knowledge on the
subject, general will to be innovative and
constantly on the market. Impeding at this
moment al the impeding factors are connected to
the fragmentation of the firm.
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Evaluations (Enterprise and innovations)
Slavko Rabic family forest enterprise

• case is somehow kind of process innovation
• a new forestry wood product innovation
• the share of income from forestry work (and
  making wainscot) is higher than it is usually the
  case.
• prevailing goal is to maintain capital, like it
  is in most of the cases of forest owners that
  have between 10 and 100ha large forests
  (Rametsteiner). Nevertheless the strategy of
  Slavko Rabic is similar to the majority of the
  strategies of forest owners in central Europe
  business as usual.
• Innovation systems are compromised of
• - actors (the owner himself with the family)
• - institutional background (seminars, fairs)
• - and their interaction

fostering factors - cooperation with costumers -
direct customers no middleman - prefers small
scale business independence - cooperation with
other forest owners - forestry subsidies from
public funds - size of forest is 72ha (concerning
the average size of forests in Slovenia, which is
2,6ha)
impeding factors - lack of forest institutions
(or enterprises) in the region - no flow of
information between institutions (no cooperation
between institutions) - afraid of taking
credits - no information from chamber of
Agricultures forestry advisory services -
unavailability of financial means - no innovation
development support programme - financial/tax
expenditure - lack of information on innovation
support schemes - collaboration with
administration and chamber
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Evaluations (Enterprise and innovations)

• Lignova Kft.
• Evaluation of innovation
• the main objective of the innovation was, that
  the financial support was offered for them
• (they already wanted to do some modernization,
  but they havent had enough money for it,
• 500 000 is the annual turnover, but the profit
  is very law,
• positive resolutions of the innovation 100-120
  higher productivity, better quality, faster
• manufacturing, bigger market, more customers,
  higher salaries,
• the most important challenges could be in
  gaining a bigger market, and more customers, and
• to gain the customers over,
• the main problems are, that the market is very
  sensitive and indeterminate.

Impeding factors - that the
company has its reputation - the position of the
factory is in a really advantageous place, - 25
years experience Fostering factors
- peoples dont know the advantages
about these houses
- peoples dont know about renewable forest
products - the market is fulfilled
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Evaluations (Enterprise and innovations)
Alseka
Evaluation of innovation The goal of the
innovation is to improve the quality of the
products, to enlarge the stock as well as to gain
a larger profit, but we can be seen some
factors As the personnel was not been able to
use the new equipment it was a necessity to send
the staff to the courses, to improve the
qualification of the personnel. However, the
people assimilated the new information and
everything was to the good. When we have a new
products, we must know about economical
situation in country, make products presentation
and we need to find market groups. Fostering
and impeding factors The bigest fostering factor
is knowledge. You work with fostering idea and
you dont feel impeding factors.
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Evaluations (Enterprise and innovations)
Architektur Stöckl Horak Ziviltechniker Gmbh
Realization of an affordable passive house which
is adaptable to current and future needs of its
residents Main objectives flexibility,
affordability, ecology, product quality

• Outcome
• standardized, prefabricated passive house
• increased profitability
• change in attitude

Fostering factors
Impeding factors

• Local building authority
• Building codes
• Financing
• (innovative partners)

• Available knowledge
• Technological standard

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Conclusions
Our group includes very different enterprises and
innovation cases. The range is from family run
business to a huge, well organized furniture
manufacturer operating on a worldwide scale.
Innovation area
In 5 of 6 cases the innovation area was both
technological in terms of new machinery and
product innovation. We conclude that there is a
connection between product and technological
innovations. Whereas organizational innovations
seem to be less common (3 out of 6). Generally
companies care about technological and product
innovations first. With increasing size firms pay
more attention to organizational innovations and
commercialization of their innovations.
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Conclusions
Information sources
According to our findings most important are
institutional (6 of 6) and B2B information
sources. Only one company mentioned internal
sources.
Innovation impulse
In 5 of 6 cases the innovation impulse comes from
internal sources. Only in one case the impulse
comes from customers.
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Conclusions
Certification Improve quality of wood (as
input), processes and final products. They are
necessary for a firm that wants to go the global
market, they can be used as an efficient
marketing tool and to get a better price,
increases competitiveness. Cooperation Making
less products, the firms can concentrate in
improving the quality of the products so the
system becomes more complex and co-operation with
other companies and institutions is needed.

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Conclusions
Lessons learned/recommendations Innovation
depends much of social and political environment.
For improving social part of community, there
must be constant economic growth which can be
achieved only by forcing innovations. For
achieving that goal, certain intensity of
cooperation must be established.