Essays about: "Swedwood"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 7 essays containing the word Swedwood.
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1. Waste from glued wood - A base for new products and/or bio-fuel?
University essay from Energisystem; Institutionen för ekonomisk och industriell utvecklingAbstract : The Swedwood Company is a supplier to IKEA of wood furniture. They have grown larger concurrently with IKEA and at present they have 47 production units spread over twelve countries of which most are located in Eastern Europe. One of the factories is Zbaszynek which is located in Poland. They manufacture so called board-on-frame furniture. READ MORE
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2. Adaptive sawing : Yield of a concept in reality
University essay from Industriell träteknik; Institutionen för ekonomisk och industriell utvecklingAbstract : Glue board is the base for much solid wood furniture produced by the IKEA-owned company Swedwood. Glue board is glued together from lamellas which can be produced in different waysbut in all cases is produced from boards coming from a saw-mill. In a saw-mill there aredifferent techniques for producing boards from logs. READ MORE
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3. Adaptive sawing : - Yield of a concept in reality
University essay from Industriell träteknik; Institutionen för ekonomisk och industriell utvecklingAbstract : Glue board is the base for much solid wood furniture produced by the IKEA-owned companySwedwood. Glue board is glued together from lamellas which can be produced in different waysbut in all cases is produced from boards coming from a saw-mill. In a saw-mill there aredifferent techniques for producing boards from logs. READ MORE
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4. Organizational exposure to risk of unethical behaviour : in Eastern European timber purchasing organizations
University essay from SLU/Dept. of Forest ProductsAbstract : Issues: The issues Swedwood asked us to explore in their Eastern European timber purchasing organizations were: Have clear directives been given to each purchasing unit regarding the purpose and scope of its activities? If so, what do these directives contain? If so, how are these directives followed? How are purchasing transactions planned and carried out? What roles are involved in the purchasing process, and what are the responsibilities and authorities of each role? Can the purchasing process, or parts of the process, be improved? Can the company organize its purchasing units more effectively to ensure best practices? Purpose: The overall approach we took was to assess Swedwood's potential exposure to low levels of legal or ethical practices by benchmarking its actual practices, using the concept of best purchasing practices described in the literature. Method: To collected data using qualitative methods, since this is an appropriate way of raising the sensitive issues that needed to be addressed. READ MORE
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5. Analysis of potential environmental improvements concerning transports of water-borne lacquer to Swedwood International
University essay from Lunds universitet/Miljö- och energisystemAbstract : This study is an environmental system analysis concerning the transport of water-borne lacquers from different lacquer suppliers to Swedwood furniture industries situated mainly in Eastern Europe. The aim of the study is to identify and calculate for environmental impacts to suggest possible improvement areas based on the achieved results. READ MORE
