Low-Cost Opportunity for Small-Scale Manufacture of Hardwood Blanks

摘要

The report discusses the economics associated with the small-scale manufacture of blanks from four species--red oak, black cherry, hard maple, and yellow-poplar. Assuming a tax rate of 46 percent, returns ranged from 31 percent for hard maple to 38 percent for yellow-poplar. Plots were developed relating raw material input cost to blank prices necessary to achieve specified levels of return.