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Migration plays a pivotal role in the work culture of many lives. In most cases it creates a positive effect on the quality of work life of labourers especially in industrial sector. This positive vibe leads to an effective growth towards manufacturing sectors especially in plywood industries. In this paper the researcher tries to analyses the quality of work life of migrant workers in plywood industries and was surveyed migrant workers in Kerala, India. A pre-tested semi-structured questionnaire was used for the responds collection and a total of 250 migrant workers have been interviewed. From the study it was concluded that the migration process brought out significant changes to their quality of life.

In addition to the familiar challenge of a highly volatile product market, the plywood co-operatives of the Pacific Northwest face a rapidly shrinking supply of timber. Their survival depends on their ability to concentrate on high-quality, high value-added segments of the market and on renewed investment. Investment has been difficult to sustain while owner-members' real incomes have been in decline. Industry and resource supply conditions and environmental regulation provide an increasingly difficult environment for this cluster of co-ops.

WHAT IS LATENT DEMAND AND THE P.I.E.?The concept of latent demand is rather subtle. The term latent typically refers to something that is dormant, not observable, or not yet realized. Demand is the notion of an economic quantity that a target population or market requires under different assumptions of price, quality, and distribution, among other factors. Latent demand, therefore, is commonly defined by economists as the industry earnings of a market when that market becomes accessible and attractive to serve by competing firms. It is a measure, therefore, of potential industry earnin

The Canadian wood products industry, including structural panels, is very dependent on the US housing market. Since the US housing crisis in 2006, exports of Canadian wood products to the US significantly dropped annually at a devastating rate. With the growing trend for sustainable construction, the widespread influence of promotions from campaigns such as Wood First and Wood Works and as well as the building standards of the LEED rating system, the demand for wood products is steadily being restored. Amongst the primary construction materials, the manufacturing of structural products of OSB and softwood plywood has slightly higher environmental impact than the manufacturing of lumber due to the drying and pressing processes and the resins used as well. As the demand for structural panels is being slowly created, manufacturers in this industry need to lower the emissions generated from manufacturing to lower environmental impacts. This thesis contrasts and analyzes the emissions and emission control data from the Life Cycle Assessment and Life Cycle Inventory reports for OSB and softwood plywood. In general, between both structural panel products, plywood is the more sustainable product of the two with lower energy utilized and fewer emissions of CO₂, SOx, NOx, VOC and particulate matter generated in the manufacturing process. To further reduce emissions associated with manufacturing of both panel products, the theoretically plausible solution is to combine the use of regenerative thermal oxidizer, which can remove 99% more VOC emissions than that of the wet electrostatic precipitator (NCASI, 1999), with an emissions trading legislature. ; Forestry, Faculty of ; Unreviewed ; Undergraduate