Technology Forecasting on Application of Nanotechnology in Forest Product Industries

摘要

Nanotechnology has grown from its stage of infancy to a stage claiming the present era to be nano-era. Forest products industry is considered to be the most fertile ground for the growth of this revolutionary technology. This paper is devoted to technology forecasting on the applications of nanotechnology to all forest products industry including plantation, pulp, paper, packaging, newsprint and allied products and processes therein. The technology forecasting made here may be useful in corporate planning and initiating nanotechnology by the paper industry notably.