Consulting Engineers - Market Analysts - Project Managers

Forest Products manufacturing and marketing

Mater Engineering combines the unique specialties of production engineering and marketing to provide a comprehensive view of the forest products industry. Long recognized as engineering leaders in the industry, approximately 30 years ago, Mater Engineering realized that it doesn’t matter how efficient an operation is if they are selling the wrong product, or the right product into the wrong market. Under the leadership of Dr. Jean Mater, we began to assist our clients with examining and creating markets for their products. Since that time, market research has become a major component of our services along with the technical aspects of the production. Projects have included finding markets for small logs and under/unutilized species, by-products of production, new markets for under valued products, and identification of new marketing techniques, etc. The Mater Engineering team has given seminars and work sessions around the globe on the marketing of forest products and authored a book entitled Marketing Forest Products, published by Miller-Freeman in 1992.

The combination of our understanding of both the technical and market aspects of the forest products industry provides our clients with a unique perspective on what is needed to make a forest products venture successful. This has led many companies within the industry and financial institutions to retain our services for review and evaluation of proposed projects to determine their potential for success.

General background information on Mater Engineering and a partial list of relevant projects performed by Mater Engineering.

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101 S.W. Western Blvd.
PO Box O
Corvallis, Oregon 97339
541-753-7335
Fax: 541-752-2952
E-Mail: mater@mater.com

Web page last updated on January 7, 2001